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16th September 2020

By Emma Pinedo The Madrid region, one of the worst hit in Spain, is planning to announce on Friday restrictions on movement that could include targeted lockdowns in areas with high Covid-19 cases, a senior official said on Wednesday. Madrid accounts for around one-third of active coronavirus cases in Spain, with a higher incidence in high-density and...

16th September 2020

By Neil Lancefield, PA Transport Correspondent The boss of British Airways told MPs people are “still afraid of travelling”, as he defended the airline’s decision to cut up to 12,000 jobs. Chief executive Alex Cruz said the coronavirus pandemic has “devastated our business” and the carrier is “still fighting for our own survival”. He told...

16th September 2020

As a former banker Roy Clinton confesses it was the monetary aspect of the story of ‘Eliott’s Gold’, the title and subject of his first published book launched today at the offices of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust, which intrigued him enough to research it thoroughly. It was, he points out, a combination of curiosity, his...

15th September 2020

Year 2 pupils at St Bernard’s Lower Primary School have returned to the classroom after a period of self-isolation due to two Covid-19 cases being detected. Pupils and staff returned to the school today, with no transmission of Covid-19 detected. The positive cases were detected just a week into the new academic year but Senior...

15th September 2020

A view of Library Street painted by Gibraltarian artist Rudecindo Mannia in September 1967, the month that Gibraltar voted to remain British in a landmark referendum that was a turning point in Gibraltar’s modern history, is one of two his artworks to be auctioned in the UK on Thursday. Mannia is one of Gibraltar’s best...

15th September 2020

The UN’s leading anti-corruption agency, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the world football’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to step up their joint cooperation to address threats posed by crime to sport. The MoU, which was signed at UNODC’s...

15th September 2020

By Mike Bedigan A variety of tributes and commemorations will take place across the UK to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain on Tuesday, despite limitations caused by the coronavirus crisis. Special exhibitions from the Imperial War Museum, a radar-based lightshow and the addition of several new “unusual” sites to the National...

14th September 2020

With confirmation these past summers weeks that major international events planned to be hosted in Gibraltar will not be taking place the Junior Darts Corporation have announced a rescheduled plan for 2021. JDC who have a five year agreement to bring Europeans Dan world junior darts events to Gibraltar, signed with the Gibraltar Government just...

14th September 2020

This year the Gibraltar National Museum have been unable to hold their Walks Through History for local children this summer due to Covid-19. Instead the Museum has teamed up with the Chronicle to provide the tours, giving people an insight into local historical sites via this newspaper. Included in every article of this series, which...

12th September 2020

This month is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and as part of GibSams awareness campaign articles from the charity will be published weekly on Saturday’s throughout the month of September. This article was sent in anonymously by a GibSams caller. One night, I found myself at a really low point. I just felt so down and...

12th September 2020

Every family is full of stories from the past. Stories which have been handed down from one generation to the next. Most Gibraltarians are aware of where their ancestors came from, where they set sail, the year they arrived at Gibraltar, their names, their trade and the first to have been born on the Rock....

11th September 2020

The ‘For the Glory of God’ art exhibition by Wanda Bush featuring poetry by Janet Pardo has raised £3729 for Clubhouse Gibraltar. The exhibition was held at the John Mackintosh Hall from July 1 to July 10 and saw 13 paintings sold with 20% of all the proceeds donated to mental health charity Clubhouse Gibraltar....

9th September 2020

As the overcrowded migrant Moria facility on the island of Lesbos burned to the ground displacing hundreds of migrants who had been living at the camp among those coming to their aid was Gibraltarian human aid worker Dan Teuma. Mr Teuma called for ‘help and awareness,’ as he responded to the crisis. Founder and project...

9th September 2020

Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) ADI is the international federation Alzheimer's associations around the world, in official relations with the World Health Organisation (WHO). ADI is the global voice on dementia and the Gibraltar Alzheimer's & Dementia Society is a member - our vision is prevention, care and inclusion today and cure tomorrow. World Alzheimer's Month...

8th September 2020

The second phase of the Gustavo Bacarisas street art murals has begun with two new murals cropping up in town. Gibraltar Cultural Services announced the second phase of works, which are the brainchild of Ronnie Alecio who, together with UK street artist Jupp, has been depicting the work of Gibraltar’s national artist Gustavo Bacarisas. Gustavo...

7th September 2020

The Premier of the Cayman Islands, Alden McLaughlin, admitted being “utterly humiliated” that the UK Government had been forced to legislate for same-sex marriage after the islands’ Legislative Assembly narrowly voted against the law last July. In a statement last Friday, Mr McLaughlin said the islands’ legislators had “failed to do our duty” and pass...

7th September 2020

By Robert Vasquez The Gibraltar Government and the Opposition are agreed that frontier fluidity is what is needed at final Brexit. Even Sir Joe Bossano’s National Economic Plan relies on that free flow. All are also agreed that there should be no dilution of sovereignty, jurisdiction or control - none define or specify these fundamentals....

7th September 2020

Traders in Main Street and its surrounding areas have welcomed the launch of the “business improvement district” plan, adding that it will give them “clout” while working together. Local business owners have faced increasing challenges over the past few years, whether it has been shopping in Spain, online sales, Brexit and now the Covid-19 pandemic....

5th September 2020

This month is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and as part of GibSams awareness campaign articles from the charity will be published weekly on Saturday’s throughout the month of September. GibSams is a confidential and anonymous free helpline that offers a listening service to anyone experiencing distress, loneliness, despair or suicidal feelings. Callers can talk or...

5th September 2020

As I was putting last week’s column to bed, I suddenly had a new lot of emails arrive at their destination. My computer once again saw an influx of new images of the Rock sent by Gerard Richardson who had delved into a new box and scanned more of Ivor Nicholson’s negatives of Gibraltar in...

5th September 2020

Until this week I had never heard of the British author Edmund Cooper (1926-1982). His passion was for science fiction, with an output of at least forty short stories, and some twenty novels. It is also said that he wrote over 850 poems. At age ten he discovered among his father’s books ‘The Time Machine’...

4th September 2020

The Gibraltar Government’s plans for the beautification of Line Wall Road, to be named Line Wall Boulevard, were discussed at Friday’s virtual meeting of the Development and Planning Commission. These works do not fall under the definition of development under the Town Planning Act and therefore permission for this Government project is not required by...

4th September 2020

By Jamie Gardner, PA Chief Sports Reporter Lionel Messi has reversed his decision to leave Barcelona this summer, saying he could never go to court against the club to secure a move. The Argentinian forward had informed the club on August 25 that he wanted to leave this summer and intended to utilise a clause...

4th September 2020

Three men have challenged themselves to a charitable swim around the Rock where they hope to be joined by up to 30 more swimmers. The challenge will see Matt Coulthard, Gary Evans and Wayne Warwick enter the water at Western Beach and swim over 11.5km to the shore of Eastern Beach in early October, all...

4th September 2020

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is pictured above with Sir Philip Barton, the new Permanent Under Secretary at the newly named Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office in King Charles Street in Westminster, London. As the new Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [FCDO] was inaugurated this week, the Foreign Secretary pledged to use the UK’s diplomatic levers...

3rd September 2020

Gibraltar’s business owners today launched a plan to help revitalise Main Street and the surrounding business areas. They hope the Main Street Business Improvement Plan, or BID, will have long-term benefits for businesses in town, making it more attractive to both tourists and locals. Speaking at a restricted gathering of under 20 people in the...

2nd September 2020

By Jamie Harris, PA Science Technology Reporter Tech firms have 12 months to ensure their platforms adhere to new UK child privacy protection measures. The Age Appropriate Design Code sets out 15 standards that companies must build into any online services used by children, making data protection of young people a priority from the design...

2nd September 2020

With Gibraltar in lockdown, many are spending more time at home and looking for distractions. Kim Pecino is a librarian with experience in public and school libraries, and today she shares three book recommendations. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – This book does not need much introduction. I would argue it...

2nd September 2020

By Rod Minchin Bronze Age man kept human remains as relics and turned them into things like musical instruments, according to research. Academics said that while the findings may seem eerie or gruesome by today’s standards, they show a way of honouring and remembering the dead. Radiocarbon dating and CT scanning was used to examine...

2nd September 2020

By Nick Carey, Richa Naidu and Siddharth Cavale Instant coffee, ketchup, Lululemon yoga pants and Nike Air Max sneakers are all in. Bottled water, pricey diapers and Burberry luxury trench coats are out. Welcome to America's pandemic consumer economy. And it's like nothing we've seen before. "Everything we knew about supply and demand, we can...