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2nd February 2021

Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 12% of new cases each year worldwide, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. "For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most commonly occurring cancer globally," Andre Ilbawi, a cancer specialist at the WHO, told a...

2nd February 2021

By Robert Vasquez It cannot be clearer, the Cabinet, in short, the GSLP-Liberal Government headed by Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has instructed Chief Secretary, Darren Grech, and Financial Secretary, Albert Mena, to control strictly public spending in order to diminish the effects of Covid-19 and Brexit on public finances. This is too little too late....

2nd February 2021

By Hannah Stephenson As a father of three children under six, TV gardener David Domoney knows only too well how important it is for him – and the kids – to get into the garden to de-stress. But as well as introducing his children to outdoor plants, he’s found that involving them in growing plants...

2nd February 2021

The GSD’s complaints that disruption to the parliamentary calendar is denting its ability to scrutinise Government decisions are “over the top” and “lack any credibility” given the party’s “dismal” record while in office, the Gibraltar Government said on Monday. No.6 Convent Place was reacting after the GSD said that parliament’s failure to hold a full...

2nd February 2021

Businesses in Gibraltar once again opened their doors yesterday as lockdown restrictions were eased with the hope this would be the last time shops would have to shut because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Much like the first lockdown period, shops were looking forward to welcoming their clients once again. Last week, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo...

2nd February 2021

January’s heart-breaking death toll from Covid-19 reached 71 yesterday, after another death was confirmed on Monday. A woman aged 85 to 90 years old, who had underlying health conditions, died on January 31 of Covid pneumonitis and severe frailty. She was the last person to die from the virus in January. Since the pandemic began,...

1st February 2021

Covid-19 has changed how all airports operate, and locally this has been no different with staff moving swiftly to adhere to new measures to ensure the airfield is fully operational. Terence Lopez, Air Terminal Director at the Gibraltar International Airport, said the reduction in services to two commercial flights a week was to be expected...

1st February 2021

By Vicky Shaw Unless you have a very well-paid job, or are expecting a lottery win, the idea of retiring early may seem like an impossible dream. But by starting early and committing to regular saving, perhaps you can nudge the dream a bit closer to reality. Some people even go to extreme lengths to...

1st February 2021

The Gibraltar FA has today announced the appointment of Mr. Julian Valverde as the Association’s new Projects and Human Resources Manager. “Julian has been a footballer himself, having represented Gibraltar prior to its admission into UEFA. A distinguished twenty five year career in the British Army, Julian served in the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, retiring as...

29th January 2021

Lockdown restrictions will be partially eased as from Monday, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Friday, even as he confirmed another three deaths and implored people to stay at home unless absolutely necessary. Speaking at the weekly press conference in No.6 Convent Place, Mr Picardo said the rate of infection had decreased significantly in parallel...

29th January 2021

Parents are dealing with huge demands on their time and energy. Children may not be attending school or involved in regular activities. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, routines have collapsed, patience is wearing thin and self-care is a distant memory. Decades of research have taught us that adversity during childhood has...

29th January 2021

By Alistair Mason, PA A year fighting coronavirus has left medical staff “burned out”, “fatigued” and “desperately sad”, according to one nurse. Since the first death in the UK a year ago on Saturday, many doctors, nurses and other frontline workers have been immersed in the battle against Covid-19. Joanne Morrell, an intensive care nurse...

29th January 2021

By Sam Russell Stephen Fry has urged people to be kind to themselves during the third lockdown and not to “fall into the trap” of thinking they are “failing”. The actor and television presenter, who has a home in Norfolk, emailed a morale-boosting message to share with school staff at two academy trusts in the...

28th January 2021

By Carmen Anderson Lockdown seems to have lost its novelty. Last March, when those of us who were not key workers were confined to our homes for most of the day, lockdown was something we had never experienced before. From the safety of our living rooms, we watched scenes of devastation in European hospitals. There...

27th January 2021

Chronicle photographer Johnny Bugeja has been behind the lens, snapping some of the most dramatic scenes and historic moments during this pandemic. For months he also shielded as all those over 70 did. Now he is telling his side of the pandemic. By Johnny Bugeja I was really worried when the Chronicle editor, on Friday,...

27th January 2021

Brexit and Covid have changed the way we live.  As Boris Johnson grapples with both there is another big issue looming.  Like one that has been lurking in the shadows waiting for the right time to strike.   The Sunday Times this week led with the headline "Our disunited kingdom" and news that the union...

27th January 2021

Plans to reopen schools were at the centre of a public row on Tuesday after Together Gibraltar “pleaded” with the Gibraltar Government to delay the return to classrooms by two weeks. The party accused the government of a “penchant for lax measures and risk taking” and said schools should remain closed until teachers had received...

27th January 2021

By Roy Clinton We all have an interest in the future economic prosperity of Gibraltar represented by the health of our public finances and the success of our private sector economy. It is fundamental to our wellbeing that our economy prospers and grows because without the tax revenues it generates Government cannot provide services such...

26th January 2021

Local author and historian Richard Garcia has published his newest book detailing Gibraltar’s social history titled ‘Forging a Civilian Community 1704-1749’. The book which is available via the Heritage Trust is the first of three instalments which delve into Gibraltar’s past. Mr Garcia has researched the Rock’s social history for 25 years. He found that...

26th January 2021

By Sam Russell A study of skeletons from three graveyards has indicated that poor people were at greatest risk of injury in medieval Cambridge. Researchers from Cambridge University used X-ray analysis to establish that skeletal trauma was highest in a parish graveyard for ordinary working people, called All Saints by the Castle. The team found...

25th January 2021

By Andrew MacAskill and Paul Sandle As the United Kingdom's Covid-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's handling of the worst public health crisis in a century. When the novel coronavirus, which first emerged in China in 2019, slid silently across the United Kingdom in...

25th January 2021

By David Hughes and Thomas Hornall, PA Boris Johnson is examining whether some lockdown measures could be lifted once the highest priority groups have been vaccinated as he came under pressure to reopen England’s schools. The Prime Minister said the Government was “looking at the potential of relaxing some measures” but refused to guarantee that...

25th January 2021

By Dave Higgens, PA A newlywed pensioner couple have urged everyone to get vaccinated as they became two of the first to get the jab at a new large-scale centre. Geoff Holland, 90 and his 86-year-old wife Jenny were only marred in August after they met at the Town View independent living centre, where they...

25th January 2021

Scottish author Scott Alcroft’s love for Gibraltar has seen him include the Rock in his writings and now he has today release his newest book ‘Bonded by Burns’ on Amazon. In 2007, Mr Alcroft arrived in Gibraltar and without knowing too much about the Rock, its history and people, but he quickly fell in love...

22nd January 2021

Retirement, for many of us today, is the start of a new chapter. The next phase in our lives with lots still to accomplish.Our guest today is someone who at the age of 65 took on a new challenge in his life and who would help create what we know today as the Gibraltar Senior...

22nd January 2021

By Sam Blewett and Shaun Connolly, PA Political Correspondents Ministers are considering paying £500 to everyone who tests positive for coronavirus to increase the number of people abiding by quarantine rules, a Cabinet member has confirmed. Environment Secretary George Eustice stressed the need for people to comply with the isolation rules when contacted by NHS...

22nd January 2021

By Jemma Crew, PA Social Affairs Correspondent The older a person, the more likely they are to intend to take up a coronavirus vaccine, figures suggest. Around eight in 10 people aged 16-29 (81%) said they would be very likely or fairly likely to take up an offered vaccine, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

22nd January 2021

By Jamie Gardner, PA Chief Sports Reporter The European Commission has backed the strong opposition of football’s governing bodies to a breakaway European Super League. A joint statement from FIFA and the six continental confederations on Thursday threatened that players involved in any such league would be barred from future World Cups and other international...

21st January 2021

A local man who has undergone a kidney transplant has described how receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has provided “a ray of hope” after a difficult year. President of Kidney Care Gibraltar, Sunil Chandiramani, is on immune suppressants so that his transplanted kidney is not rejected by his body, but this has meant he is...

21st January 2021

By Adriano Machado and Leonardo Benassatto Brazilian military flew medical personnel and 1,000 doses of a Chinese vaccine deep into the Amazon rainforest on Tuesday to start inoculating indigenous people against the coronavirus. Isabel Ticuna, 68, was the first to receive the vaccine in Umariaçu, a village of wooden houses on the banks of the...