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A BELEAGUERED international firm with an office in Gibraltar has found itself at the heart of the world’s biggest leak of secret information. A total of 11 million documents were released from Mossack Fonseca’s head office in Panama linking 12 world leaders and countless celebrities with alleged tax evasion. While it has had a ‘service office’ on the Rock for eight years, its Gibraltar boss claimed however that it merely acted as a ‘conduit between intermediaries and trust companies’. Managing Director Nick Poole told the Olive Press that it did not enter into client contracts nor invoiced for its services. He insisted the office in Neptune House, in Marina Bay, had ‘operated in compliance with appropriate Gibraltar laws’ and complied with the ‘highest professional standards’. Gibraltar is NOT included in a list of UK Overseas Territories and dependencies named in the ‘Panama Files’.
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They Stayed at home HE calls himself a ‘friend of Gibraltar’ but the fact that nobody turned up suggests otherwise. Indeed, less than a dozen people were at a Casemates rally to listen to MP Andrew Rosindell insist that Gibraltarians should be supporting Brexit. Speaking on behalf of the pro-Brexit group
Grassroots Out (GO) he later told the Olive Press there will ‘be no Gibraltar’ if the UK stays in the EU. He insisted the Rock would be in line for an MP if the UK votes to leave the EU, a plan labelled
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GHA faces calls to ban ‘indecent’ smoking from hospital grounds EXCLUSIVE By Joe Duggan
THE father of a seriously ill child has slammed the Gibraltar hospital for allowing smoking in its grounds. Charlie Victor has now complained to the Health Minister John Cortes about visitors - and, in
UNWELCOME SIGHT: Staff smoking and (right) Victor with son particular, staff - smoking by the back entrance to St Bernard’s Hospital.
The 34-year-old - whose son was born with a rare, life-threatening disorder
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HAS Spain found the answer to its political stalemate? With no government in office and politicians pulling in opposite directions, could Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s Easter visit to the capital have wider implications?
Taking the family to Madrid during Semana Santa, it is unclear whether Picardo threw his hat into the ring to lead the country out of its political mess. Either way he looked happy as he posed with wife Justine and kids Sebastian and Oliver in Madrid’s Retiro Park.
Vacterl Association - is demanding the Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) acts to bring it in line with other UK hospitals. Despite being a smoker himself he finds the permissive nature of the hospital ‘bewildering’. “I have been to several hospitals around Europe as my son has required many operations and Gibraltar is the only place like this,” he told the Olive Press. “Even as a smoker I find it bewildering that you can smoke on hospital grounds in this day and age. “It is just common decency. You do not expect to see staff smoking and then go in to look after patients.” Mr Victor, whose wife is expecting their second child, is adamant a complete ban at St Bernard's would benefit everybody. A spokesperson from the GHA management told the Olive Press: "At present there is a designated smoking area outside the hospital building, in the
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courtyard.” However, he admitted: “All such policies are constantly under review." The GHA’s website meanwhile states it ‘encourages a smoke free environment for the benefit of everyone’. Hospitals in Scotland banned smoking on their grounds last year, with Northern Ireland following suit last month. Most hospitals in England have also brought in bans. In Spain, smoking is banned completely from hospitals. Last month, the Gibraltar government banned smoking in cars containing children. On last month’s National No Smoking Day, GHA nurse practitioner Elizabeth Borges, who runs the No Smoking clinic, described smoking as ‘still the biggest cause of premature death in the UK’, adding ‘there is nothing good about smoking’.
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