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30th April 2020

Gibraltarian Germaine Britto Silva lives in Australia with her family and believes everyone of us will all be changed in some way because of Covid19 and lockdown experience and also wonder about how we will all re-emerge. “There will be many questions such as what the consequences of this mass social experiment on our psyches...

30th April 2020

By Sarah Marshall While planes are parked on runways and ships tethered indefinitely to docks, the only way to travel right now is from your living room. In the absence of any tourists, many attractions, safari lodges and tourist boards have created a selection of live streams, virtual tours and 360-degree images, allowing us to...

29th April 2020

Spain recorded 325 deaths from the novel coronavirus overnight, up from 301 reported the previous day, but health officials said the epidemic was evolving favourably as the country prepares for a gradual easing of its lockdown from next week. The overall death toll from the virus rose by 453 to 24,275, the health ministry said, adding...

29th April 2020

With Gibraltar under lockdown, volunteers and the public sector have pulled together to ensure those most vulnerable have all their needs met. Bayside School used to see over 1,000 students walk its halls daily, but now it is the hub for coordination of Covid-19 related services. Civil servants occupy the empty school, and from there...

28th April 2020

Children in a ‘critical stage of learning’ will probably be allowed to return to school in what will be a ‘gradual and slow’ process over the coming weeks, the Minister for Education Gilbert Licudi announced on Tuesday. With just 10 weeks remaining before the end of the academic year Mr Licudi acknowledged the “immense challenges”...

27th April 2020

By David Hughes, PA Political Editor The UK is at the point of “maximum risk” in its battle with coronavirus, Boris Johnson said as he acknowledged frustrations over the continuing lockdown but insisted he would not risk a second peak in the disease by relaxing restrictions too quickly. As the Prime Minister returned to take...

27th April 2020

By Jessica Jones and Clara-Laeila Laudette On foot and with bicycles, skateboards and scooters, Spanish children went outside at last on Sunday, emerging from their homes for the first time after six long weeks of living under one of Europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns. The relaxation came as Spain, one of the worst hit by the...

27th April 2020

Public Health Gibraltar are launching a new campaign CovidFit to ensure the community are best informed about the choices they make when isolating in their homes during these unprecedented times. For those in lock down, the absence of a daily routine and often extended distance from regular social interactions can further restrict healthy choices. To...

25th April 2020

We are taking a break from the norm on this week’s table. Well actually nothing is the norm these days and none of us have failed to miss this. Covid-19 has changed our lives in just a few weeks and seems as if it will change it, if not forever, for the foreseeable future. How...

25th April 2020

By Lauren Taylor We human beings tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves to reach goals and be the best we can be – all the while making it look effortless on social media. And despite the strange, scary situation we find ourselves in right now, many people are feeling similar pressures to...

24th April 2020

St Bernard’s Hospital carried out a Covid-19 dry run yesterday to test the resilience of its systems and state of preparedness should it receive an influx of coronavirus patients. The simulation was organised by the Director of Nursing and Ambulance Services, Sandie Gracia and Clinical Nurse Manager Gizelle Tosso. “Today we had a scenario where...

24th April 2020

By Priya Gulraj and Eyleen Gomez A University of East Anglia student who arrived in Gibraltar for a short three-day break with her family in March has not been able to return to finish off her final year after the United Kingdom was struck with coronavirus. Christina Montegriffo, 20, is among many Gibraltarian university students...

23rd April 2020

By Jamie Gardner, PA Chief Sports Reporter, and Chronicle staff Play-offs could decide Champions League and Europa League qualification in countries across Europe should the impact of the coronavirus pandemic force domestic leagues to be cut short, UEFA has said. The executive committee of European football’s governing body set out guidelines on Thursday for its...

23rd April 2020

By Edd Dracott and Max McLean, PA A Muslim doctor and health campaigner has said there is a religious obligation for the UK’s lockdown rules to be obeyed during Ramadan, and encouraged those who have contracted Covid-19 not to fast. The holy month, in which adult Muslims fast and reflect, begins on April 23 and...

23rd April 2020

Gibraltar’s civil service has stepped up to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 crisis, Chief Secretary Darren Grech said on Wednesday, as he underscored the importance of maintaining this stance in the gradual transition from lockdown in the coming weeks and months. Speaking at the daily press conference in No.6 Convent Place, Mr Grech said...

23rd April 2020

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The Prince of Wales has said the coronavirus crisis can be used to “reset our course by putting people and planet first”, urging people to view the Earth as if it were a patient. Heir to the throne Charles, who has been championing environmental issues for more than 50...

23rd April 2020

In one of the busiest cities in the world, Tokyo, within the population of nearly 14 million lives Gibraltarian Cliff Cardona. Living there with his wife and two children Mr Cardona is experiencing a ‘soft lockdown’ for the past couple of weeks. “People have been asked to avoid large gatherings and stay indoors as much...

23rd April 2020

Seeing the Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition together at Number 6 Convent place doesn’t feel normal. That’s because life at the moment is far from it. Fabian Picardo and Keith Azopardi stood “shoulder to shoulder” at Monday’s daily press briefing. Unfortunately, we’ve become used to angry and sometimes personal exchanges in Parliament and...

23rd April 2020

Local artist Michele Stagnetto spends a couple of hours every day painting or drawing. Presently she is using charcoal and watercolours which is what she has at hand but fears she may be running out of paper soon. Every morning she starts her day with a session of Tai Chi. “A perfect mind and body...

23rd April 2020

At just eight years old, Charlie Balloqui produced three online books through the website ‘StoryJumper’, and now has challenged others to collaborate with him on his upcoming books. Life under the lockdown has disrupted schooling, but it continues to reveal new emerging creative talents who are taking reading beyond just opening a book and reading....

22nd April 2020

As Gibraltar entered its fifth week in lockdown, there was finally a hint on Monday of what release from restrictions might actually look like. All around the world, governments are struggling with this complex question: how do we get societies and economies back to a semblance of normality? The issue is fundamental because while preservation...

22nd April 2020

Gibraltarian Brenda Smith, lives in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, and like most remains in isolation. Since the beginning of March, Brenda and her husband Paul who live in a three-storey detached house with a fenced back garden, have only go out once every two weeks for essentials. Going out in their area of Ontario means wearing...

22nd April 2020

by Alice Mascarenhas The first acoustic concert by local group Jetstream will today form part of the Culture in the Home programme by Gibraltar Cultural Services on line. ‘Jetstream Live at St Michael’s Cave’ was their first acoustic gig also came with the pressure of supporting Elaine Paige during the 50th anniversary edition Miss Gibraltar...

21st April 2020

By Michael McHugh, PA A victim of an IRA bombing which devastated London’s docklands is using a donated ambulance to support the vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic. The converted vehicle will provide essential supplies to those who are self-isolating and will also be equipped to deal with medical emergencies, although it is run by volunteers....

21st April 2020

by Alice Mascarenhas The last few weeks have shown just how the arts and music have all come together to provide on-line entertainment in a major way and how many of us have connected through music. On Saturday night during the ‘One World: Together at home special to celebrate COVID-19 Workers’ which brought together artists...

21st April 2020

‘The Commission of Public Health had feared that the plague would come to the duchy of Milan with the German troops; and so it did, as is well known. It is also known that the plague did not stop here, but went on to invade and depopulate a large part of Italy.’ Change a few...

20th April 2020

The Gibraltar Government will extend the lockdown provisions when they expire on Thursday, even while moving to ease restrictions wherever possible against the backdrop of a sustained decline in the rate of infection on the Rock. The move was announced by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo during a lengthy press conference in which, in a highly...

20th April 2020

Covid-19 has made Brexit feel like “a dress rehearsal”, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Tuesday, even while stressing that the UK and Gibraltar’s departure from the EU raised fundamental challenges that “have to be dealt with”. Mr Picardo, standing next to Opposition Leader Keith Azopardi during a press conference in No.6 Convent Place, was...

20th April 2020

One of my first editors was a man called Joseph Bonney, a seasoned and highly-respected business journalist and a former wire reporter with the Associated Press, the US news agency. I was working for a US business magazine at the time and Joe took me aside and set out what he expected in our journalism....

20th April 2020

By Ewen Maclean Facing fear A telling photo that speaks into our current circumstances, are the rows and rows of passenger jets parked up as if in the plane equivalent of a giant car park. Ordinarily, they would not be sitting on the tarmac but would be up in the sky taking passengers to business...