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21st February 2021

Artist Ambrose Avellano has always had an interest in photography. Over the years he has amassed a great number of photographs and only recently decided to create a photographic anthology which will soon be published in book form. It may come as a surprise that this well-known local artist chose black and white photography as...

21st February 2021

By Fan Yang and Robbie Fordyce Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks in the past day or so. The social media platform has effectively halted all posting of links from Australian news pages and stopped people in...

20th February 2021

Castle Street – La Calle Comedia, is an area which has produced many well-known Gibraltarians. The common thread is their nostalgic link with the area and their extremely happy carefree childhood. It has also produced quite a few musicians and none more extraordinaire than our guest this week on Alice’s Table. I have known of...

19th February 2021

NatWest Bank’s Gibraltar branch reported £9m profit for 2020 on income of £28m, despite the upheaval of Covid-19 on the Rock’s economy. Details of the local branch’s performance were included in NatWest’s group annual report published on Friday. The report showed too that the bank paid £4m in corporate tax in 2020. At the end...

19th February 2021

by Grandmaster Stuart Conquest A few weeks ago I watched ‘Angel Face’, a black-and-white film from 1953, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. At a couple of points in the film chess features. A game is played between a father - the actor is Herbert Marshall - and his daughter (Simmons), the father losing. The...

19th February 2021

An oil spill during a bunkering operation in the Bay of Gibraltar last week was “not a disaster”, local marine conservationist Dr Eric Shaw said, adding that while no one wants to see such incidents occur, the clean-up operation was swift and effective. Dr Shaw, who runs the Helping Hand Trust charity together with Tessa Feeney,...

19th February 2021

As the world watched news on NASA’s latest Mars landing, nine-year-old Gibraltarian boy Charlie Balloqui had his question about finding life on Mars answered live by experts. Charlie put his question NASA via his father Earon Balloqui, which was read out, during the NASA’s live press conference on the Perseverance rover. The young Gibraltarian asked...

18th February 2021

By Diana Bossio Facebook today made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content. The ban includes blocking links to Australian and overseas news publishers. Facebook said the ban was a direct response to the federal government’s news media code legislation, which is expected to become law soon and would...

18th February 2021

By Edd Dracott An art collector who bought and removed a Banksy mural in Nottingham says he has saved it from a “death sentence” despite protests from locals. John Brandler, owner of Brandler Galleries in Brentwood, Essex, spent “a six-figure sum” to buy the mural, which appeared on the corner of Rothesay Avenue in Lenton...

18th February 2021

Tributes have been paid to Mariola Summerfield, a champion of Gibraltarian women who died yesterday at the age of 93. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo described Mrs Summerfield as a “national treasure”. “She was well known to me as a great friend of my own mother from the time of the Housewives' Association,” Mr Picardo said....

18th February 2021

We have become kinder during the coronavirus crisis. A survey has revealed this week we are more friendly to each other and better at keeping in touch with friends and relatives. You may feel confused. That’s not the impression we often get from the toxic world of social media. But assuming the findings are correct...

17th February 2021

By Lisa Salmon As the popular saying goes, prevention is better than cure – and it’s a philosophy that features highly in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). So too does the principle of self-care – or ‘Yang Sheng’. “Unlike Western medicine, which focuses on fixing health issues, Chinese medicine focuses on prevention alongside cure,” says Katie...

17th February 2021

Two Albanian nationals who illegally attempted to reach the UK via Gibraltar International Airport were jailed for six weeks and given a removal order yesterday at the Magistrates’ Court. Drilon Picari, 29, was arrested on February 13 along with a 15-year-old boy he was accompanying at Gibraltar International Airport after entering through the land frontier...

16th February 2021

Gibraltarian Dr Stefan Williamson Fa is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist currently working as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and has been responsible for researching and promoting the story of a talented young Sindhi singer and Sufi devotee in the 1930’s. The Sindhi singer, Aziz Balouch, dedicated his life to the exploration of...

16th February 2021

By Nina Massey, PA Science Correspondent The next astronaut, or first parastronaut, from the UK or Ireland could be selected through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) hunt for people to head into space on upcoming missions. For the first time since 2008, ESA is on the lookout for new astronauts to join its cohort of...

15th February 2021

Gibraltar’s environmental groups have called for a “full and public” investigation into Friday’s oil spill, as they raised concern about its impact on the marine environment. “Oil spills can have a devastating impact on a wide variety of marine life; pelagic, coastal and intertidal alike,” the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society said. “Furthermore, they...

15th February 2021

The ship that caused an oil spill last Friday will be detained in Gibraltar waters until the Gibraltar Government can recover the costs of a clean-up operation over the bank holiday weekend. Specialist vessels and teams on land have been busy scooping up fuel oil from the sea and the shoreline following the spill. Much...

15th February 2021

The GSD has called for a full investigation into the causes of last Friday’s oil spill so that lessons can be learnt to improve Gibraltar’s response to such situations. In a statement, the Opposition acknowledged the Gibraltar Government’s statement that the authorities here reacted “relatively quickly” and together with the Spanish authorities adopted a coordinated...

15th February 2021

Three new forums have been set up within the Royal Gibraltar Police aimed at creating diversity, equality and inclusion within the organisation. The LGBT+ forum, the RGP Muslim Officers forum and the Women in Policing forum form part of this new strategy. “Through the diversity of age, race, religion, partnership, sex or religion, a different...

13th February 2021

A clean-up operation was under way inside the harbour on Saturday morning after an oil spill from a cargo ship drifted into the basin, threatening wildlife and boats inside marinas. The spill on Friday appears to have been caused by a valve problem on the Liberian-flag bulk carrier AM Ghent during a bunkering operation while...

13th February 2021

The Washington Post back in 2015 described our guest at Alice’s Table this week as Pope Francis’s “mysterious” interpreter. Monsignor Mark Miles, an interpreter we all know locally as Father Mark. Just a week ago Gibraltar rejoiced in the news that he has been made the Pope’s ambassador to the West African country of Benin,...

12th February 2021

A man in his early 60s has died from Covid-19, Chief Minister Fabian said on Friday as he announced plans for a “measured” easing of lockdown restrictions over the coming days. The latest death brings the total toll since the start of the pandemic to 84, 77 of them this year alone. Even as he...

12th February 2021

A holiday to Australia with a short stop in New Zealand turned out to be more eventful and much longer for Paul Moody and his wife Wendy. Paul has visited 85 countries and completed 26 road trips in his Gibraltar registered Hilux car. He has travelled by road from Gibraltar to Australia, across Africa and...

12th February 2021

Local residents from China are today celebrating their New Year, with today being the first day of the Year of the Ox. In past years the Chinese New Year has been celebrated in John Mackintosh Square with a lion dance and parade. This year due to the Covid-19 pandemic the festivities will be instead held...

12th February 2021

By Emily Beament Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient stone circle in Wales which they believe could have been dismantled and rebuilt as Stonehenge. The stone circle, named Waun Mawn, was found in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, in the area where the smaller “bluestones” found at Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire,...

11th February 2021

Gibraltar could be “very close” to achieving community protection against Covid-19 and is hoping for “a normal summer” thanks to the rollout of its vaccination programme, Dr Krish Rawal, the acting Medical Director of the Gibraltar Health Authority, said on Thursday. Gibraltar hopes to be “days and weeks, not months and years” from achieving the...

11th February 2021

By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent Councils across England are transforming roadside verges to support wildflowers as pressure grows to reverse declines in wildlife, a Freedom of Information request has found. Seven in 10 English councils are using mowing or management regimes alongside roads in their area to boost wildflowers and wildlife such as bees...

11th February 2021

By Paul Moody Our plane taxied to a halt on the searing tarmac at Sydney Airport. A steward claimed the tannoy, announcing we were to remain seated whilst medics came aboard to attend to an unwell passenger, and I pushed back a creeping sense of unease. The passenger was snivelling as the medic came on...

11th February 2021

Children across the UK have been playing in the snow. Sledding downhill provided a lot of fun after months of an uphill struggle with lockdown and homeschooling. Now as thousands get ready to go back to school there will be new obstacles to overcome. Everyone agrees having children return to the classroom is a priority...

10th February 2021

The GSD and the Gibraltar Government clashed yesterday as a call for cross-party consensus on the sensitive issue of mental health turned into a bitter exchange of accusation and counter-accusation. At the heart of the spat was a joint initiative by the GSD and Together Gibraltar earlier this week on a parliamentary motion calling for...