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21st May 2020

It’s time for “bold” decisions. But the Gibraltar Government has chickened out. Just a few weeks ago it announced the closure of Line Wall Road in a radical transport and traffic plan. At the press conference where the Chief Minister spoke about it and emerging from lockdown he said: “The world into which we step...

20th May 2020

By Amy Murphy, PA A grandmother who won £5.4 million on the lottery weeks after she lost her brother to epilepsy is spending her lockdown training a disability assistance dog to help others with physical needs. Deana Sampson, 57, from Sheffield, began training six-month-old Regis, a golden Labrador, shortly before the UK went into lockdown....

20th May 2020

By Laura Elston The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. Much has changed for Harry and Meghan since they said their vows in St George’s Castle, Windsor Castle, on May 19 2018, in front of the royal family, celebrity guests and a worldwide television audience of millions. The Queen’s grandson...

19th May 2020

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones & the Six were the band that defined a generation of rock and roll in the late 1970s. They were the band that everyone was talking about. Come July 1979, at the height of their fame, the band inexplicably broke up, and no-one knew...

18th May 2020

A mammoth operation to repatriate over 300 crew members from two cruise ships docked in Gibraltar ran into problems on Monday after one of two British Airways planes chartered to ferry them from the Rock suffered a flat tyre. Some 154 crewmen had already boarded the aircraft when the problem was detected, leaving them as...

18th May 2020

By Douglas Barrie, PA Scotland Freshwater fish could end up with bigger brains because of climate change – but find themselves less able to carry out simple tasks, according to scientists. Aquatic life will need to adapt to warmer waters according to new research by University of Glasgow biologists, which suggests physiological changes could have...

18th May 2020

What a ride, what a journey, 2020 is truly out to finish us… and we’re just about halfway through it… That statement is both relieving and depressing. We’ve spent the good part of 2020 jumping from one depressing thing to another. Just in January, we had Australia getting rampaged by wildfires, the threat of more...

18th May 2020

In a corridor inside his home in Gibraltar on a recent Wednesday, Christian Hook shares the first glimpse of his new collection ‘Sahara’ to followers from across the globe. In a first for the artist brought about by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown, he sits in his home filming a live stream and answering...

16th May 2020

You have often read on these pages about my childhood link to Wellington Front – the days when GBC was based there, and the area which was once my playground. There were many names I grew up with; the early stars of Radio Gibraltar, presenters and newsreaders on GBC television, but there were many other...

16th May 2020

Mr Brin-Jonathan Butler, a forty year-old Canadian journalist and author, punches above his weight when it comes to employability: to the income accrued through his various writing projects can be added the monies his pupils pay him for his services as a personal boxing instructor. The ‘New York Times’ ran a profile on him in...

16th May 2020

The recently-announced road closures for Line Wall Road, Chatham Counterguard and Europort Avenue were discussed at a Transport Advisory Committee meeting on Friday. The closures ad restrictions will come into effect as from June 1. The Minister for Transport, Vijay Daryanani, who chaired the meeting welcomed the positive and objective comments and advisory observations tabled...

15th May 2020

Art enthusiasts will be able to visit the Mario Finlayson National Gallery online and from the comfort of their own homes in a new project led by Gibraltar Cultural Services. Viewers will be able to enjoy a Gallery tour with special interviews and commentary. Head of Cultural Development, Davina Barbara, invites you to join her...

15th May 2020

The Minister for Commerce, Albert Isola, has called on applicants to the BEAT Covid-19 scheme to take more care with their applications, as he lambasted the “clumsy” mistakes made by some applicants who in turn have complained about the processes put in place. Speaking at the daily press briefing from No.6 Convent Place yesterday Mr...

14th May 2020

Fourth-placed Lynx FC, who were still in with a chance to obtain third place in the Gibraltar National League, with the potential of a Europa League spot have come out in support of the Gibraltar FA decision to terminate the league based on public health advice. The club, which has this season performed well whilst...

14th May 2020

Gibraltar basketball has taken the first step in its aim not to lose players to the sport as the impact of the Covid-19 virus pandemic takes its toll on contact sport. Just twenty-four hours after the official announcement by the Gibraltar Government publishing its Unlock the Rock document revealed that none of the contact sports...

14th May 2020

Local artist and teacher Alan Perez believes the current Covid 19 Pandemic is strongly influencing his work. “I cannot stop thinking about it and this is transforming into a need to develop my inner creative thoughts,” he says. He has now started to develop a project which will need the collaboration of other artists and...

14th May 2020

By Priya Gulraj and Eyleen Gomez Two weeks after the Gibraltar Government eased lockdown restrictions and allowed Gibraltar to reopen, Main Street has edged slowly back to life. Shops are back in business, but there is little usual about it. Once teeming with people, many now restrict entry to a limited number of customers at...

14th May 2020

'Summer is cancelled'. It seems almost offensive to be worrying about it when some countries are still struggling with the number of deaths due to Covid-19. But as “unlock” plans are published and Boris Johnson announces a 14-day quarantine for air passengers arriving in the UK the question is being asked repeatedly. Matt Hancock told...

14th May 2020

Together Gibraltar welcomed the Government’s Unlock the Rock document, describing it as a guide to what Gibraltarians “must do to minimise risks while living with the virus”. The party added that Gibraltarians will have to take a significant part of the responsibility in managing life with the virus, adding it considers it to have the...

14th May 2020

By Sarah Marshall During times of difficulty, arts and culture can help us make sense of a confused reality, offering refreshing perspectives and sharing lessons from the past. With Covid-19 people have been advised against non-essential travel, so here we bring you international museums you can visit virtually during this pandemic. Perhaps it will bring...

13th May 2020

With Gibraltar having “won the first round” in the fight against Covid-19, the Gibraltar Government will continue to gradually and carefully strip back restrictions against freedom of movement over the next 12 weeks. The route out of lockdown is set out in a 75-page document published yesterday, even as the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo underscored...

13th May 2020

By Jenny Stallard From ‘virtual drinks’ to, ‘I’ve earned a G&T’, drinking has, for many of us, become synonymous with lockdown. And even if you drank alcohol to some extent before coronavirus, you may well be among those drinking more right now. A survey by Alcohol Change has found that one in five of us...

13th May 2020

To mark the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, the Gibraltar Health Authority yesterday commemorated the work of all nurses. For the first time, 2020 has been declared the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Organization. International Nurses’ Day 2020 celebrates the work of nurses globally, and also commemorates the...

12th May 2020

By Ted Hennessey, PA Historians have praised Florence Nightingale on the 200th anniversary of her birth, and said her legacy has “never been more relevant” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Staff at the Florence Nightingale Museum in Westminster said her key nursing values – which focused on maintaining good hygiene, regularly washing hands and carrying out...

12th May 2020

Pleasant letters and gestures during the Covid-19 lockdown has given Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the public sector a ‘boost’ to morale when working under the pressures the pandemic has caused. In a statement the Gibraltar Government said coronavirus has out government ministers and officials under “unprecedented pressure”. “Almost everyone in the public sector has...

11th May 2020

By PA Reporter A Cabinet minister has indicated there may be a change to rules regarding weddings after couples around the UK were forced to cancel their big day due to the coronavirus pandemic. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said “watch this space” when asked about the issue on Sunday night following the Prime Minister’s televised...

11th May 2020

By Michael Mifsud As I write this, we have just been informed that the “lock down” will continue for possibly the next thirty days. For many this will increase the already heightened levels of anxiety and worry, not only for themselves and their own health but also of those whom they love. Added to this,...

11th May 2020

By Fidel Patron Today, Monday 4th May, as I post my daily short vlog on the church Facebook page I am very aware that my heading is ‘Monday – Week 7’. I started these vlogs when the general Lockdown started on 24th March. My personal Lockdown started a week earlier, so, counting the weekend before,...

9th May 2020

‘The Rite of Spring promised to be many things to many people and after the capacity audience at the Bayside Comprehensive Drama Studio there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that something important had happened in Gibraltar, and previous concepts of local dance drama had been invaded and ousted by the monster called THE RITE...

9th May 2020

By Chief Minister Fabian Picardo Today, 8th May 2020 the world is fighting the new common enemy, Covid-19. Today, on a warm Bank Holiday in Gibraltar, we are confronting the difficulties of Lockdown, the inability to enjoy our beaches, the loss of the ability to drive to lunch in at our favourite restaurant in Gib...