GEA plans grid automation to bolster resilience 

Affiliate events celebrate creativity ‘beyond the page’ at Literary Festival

8th October 2026

The Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival will continue to promote literature, creativity and artistic collaboration through a series of affiliate events taking place before and after the festival, bringing together writers, artists, performers, students and the wider community. Callarte organised from November 2 to 15, 2026 by Joseph Alecio and the Fine Arts Association, is an...

Investors weigh global uncertainty at Turicum seminar

8th October 2026

An investment conference this week focused on how AI, geopolitics and the management of public finances impact on investors and the global economy. Turicum Private Bank’s Investment Seminar at the Eliott Hotel featured talks delivered by Turicum Chief Investment Officer and Treasury Manager Michael Cuby and Senior Portfolio Manager Malcolm White to a conference room...

GEA plans grid automation to bolster resilience 

8th October 2026

The Gibraltar Electricity Authority plans to automate key parts of the electricity distribution network to reduce the extent and duration of power cuts and lessen reliance on engineers attending substations as a significant proportion of its workforce approaches retirement.  The Minister for Health, Care and Business, Gemma Arias-Vasquez, told Parliament on Friday that the improvements...

Feetham raises gambling tax concerns as Badenoch pledges support for Gibraltar

7th October 2026

The Minister for Justice, Trade and Industry, Nigel Feetham, raised the impact of increases in UK gambling taxation on Gibraltar’s gaming sector with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch during her visit to the Gibraltar stand at the party’s conference in Birmingham this week. Mrs Badenoch, the UK Leader of the Opposition, said Gibraltar could always count...

Cross-Frontier Group to ask Spain’s political parties for their positions on treaty

7th October 2026

The Cross Frontier Group said it will ask all Spanish political parties to clarify their position on the Gibraltar treaty ahead of Spain’s general election on November 29.  The group, which brings together business and labour organisations from both sides of the border, will hold a meeting next week to analyse the new political landscape...

Spain's Pedro Sanchez calls general election on November 29

5th October 2026

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called a general election for November 29. Mr Sanchez made the announcement on Monday after his government was defeated in parliament on Friday in votes on two key housing decrees and against the backdrop of street protests in cities around Spain. The measures included protections against evictions and restrictions...

Spain - King and Queen of Spain to visit Ceuta and Melilla in October

5th October 2026

The King and Queen of Spain will visit the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla on October 13 and 14 in a visit agreed with the Spanish government, sources at Casa Real, the Spanish royal household, told the EFE news agency.  The schedule for Felipe VI and Letizia will be announced in the coming days. ...

Campo - Spain’s anti-smuggling campaign enters ninth year, nearly 34,500 arrests made since 2018

5th October 2026

The country’s sustained campaign against the illegal narcotics trade in the Campo de Gibraltar and further afield, now in its ninth year, has resulted in the arrest of 34,499 suspects and the seizures of 2,300 tonnes of drugs and 3,531 firearms.  Last week Pedro Fernández, the national government’s delegate to Andalucía reviewed Spain’s special policing...