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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...

21st January 2021

By Joe Gammie, PA Nearly nine million people in Great Britain had to borrow more money because of the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, published on Thursday, showed that 17% of adults reported borrowing money in December 2020 compared to 11% at the end of June. It also...

20th January 2021

By Sam Russell A 480-million-year-old fossil found in Morocco is a “missing link” between modern-day starfish and their ancestors, a scientist has said. The fossil, discovered in the Anti-Atlas mountain range, captures the early evolutionary steps of the animal at a time in Earth’s history when life suddenly expanded, a period known as the Ordovician...

20th January 2021

By Sarah Marshall An avid traveller, constantly curious to learn about new cultures, TV presenter Simon Reeve has been to more than 100 countries, filming all over the world for the past 15 years. But being grounded by the pandemic has paused his plans, giving him an opportunity to take stock, reflect upon the wonderful...

20th January 2021

In the year since the city of Wuhan, China, went into the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, we have all had to live under some form of pandemic-related restriction. Some countries have opted for strict national lockdowns, like the one currently in place in the UK, while other countries such as Taiwan have opted for border...

20th January 2021

By Jane Kirby, PA Health Editor Vaccines are not doing enough “heavy lifting” at the moment and case rates need to drop further before the Government can think of easing restrictions, the UK’s chief scientific adviser has said. Sir Patrick Vallance said the country still had a long way to go in battling coronavirus but...

20th January 2021

By Catherine Wylie, PA Footballer Marcus Rashford is launching a book club so that all children can experience the escapism of reading. The Manchester United star is teaming up with Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) to promote reading and literacy among children from all socio-economic backgrounds. Rashford said he wishes he had the chance to read...

19th January 2021

The framework agreement for Gibraltar’s future relations with the EU is the “fruit of compromise” and “imperfect” but could lead to a long-lasting treaty that is “safe and beneficial” for all parties, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the House of Lords on Tuesday. Addressing the Lords EU Select Committee during a 90-minute virtual session, Mr...

19th January 2021

The Gibraltar Government has confirmed the Covid-19 related deaths of two more local residents, bringing the death toll to 47. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo lamented the deaths but added Elderly Residential Services had also seen some recoveries. He added the vaccines are a glimmer of hope for all Gibraltarians. “[On Monday] I described this worst...