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3rd February 2020

A Your Say poll for the Chronicle sheds light today on Gibraltar’s complex relationship with social media, with most respondents admitting they were concerned about its impact on mental health and privacy even while admitting they were compulsive users who paid little attention to privacy policies on their platforms of choice.  Most participants in the...

1st February 2020

The Leader of Podemos in Andalucia, Teresa Rodriguez, said yesterday that an agreement on free movement between Gibraltar and Spain is “perfectly achievable with goodwill”, as she urged Spain’s left-wing coalition government not to be influenced by right-wing arguments on sovereignty. Speaking to reporters after meeting Chief Minister Fabian Picardo in No.6 Convent Place, Ms...

1st February 2020

It is here. The time has arrived. We have had time to ponder on the fact that we are no longer part of the extended and large European community and family. We are still European though, but our future free movement within this historically intricate and complex European continent is still to be determined. New...

1st February 2020

This statement was issued yesterday prior to Gibraltar and the UK leaving the EU. Chief Minister’s Statement on Leaving the European Union My dear fellow Gibraltarians The time has come. Tonight we face a historic rupture. For the past 47 years we have been members of the European Union. Tonight, we leave that Union. In...

1st February 2020

Chronicle reporter Eyleen Gomez asked people in Main Street how they felt about Gibraltar leaving the European Union ahead of the formal departure on Friday night. Charles Borge, 66, retired. “I am disappointed. It was not what I had hoped for as I feel they are taking away my freedom.” “Wherever I want to go,...

1st February 2020

By Keith Azopardi, Leader of the Opposition Our relationship with Europe can probably be best encapsulated by that immortal lyric of the Eagles – “You can check-out anytime you like but you can never leave.” In some respects that will become our post-Brexit anthem if it wasn’t already given that it blared out of so...

1st February 2020

Good Morning. It’s a brand new day. Something is different and yet life as we know it, for now, feels very much the same. A busy Saturday morning in Main Street, some shopping, time for family and friends and others heading to work. Perhaps it even feels a bit like the Millennium (for those of...

1st February 2020

As featured in the Red and White supplement No longer does a sports person have to be human for those around sports to earn from the game. The presence of esport has seen a growth in its potential as a way of increasing profits and finding new markets, especially among the now emerging younger generation...

31st January 2020

The Care Agency will kick off a week-long fostering recruitment drive this Saturday with a series of events, including a ‘Help a Child See Life’s Colours’ walk from John Mackintosh Square to Casemates starting at 11am. The Care Agency aims to raise awareness about the benefits of fostering children and encourage people in the community...

31st January 2020

In the final days of our membership of the European Union, I stopped for chat on Governor’s Street with a local Brexiteer businessman who has been a good sounding board for me over the past three years as I reported on the twists and turns of the Brexit saga. “We’re almost there,” he told me,...

31st January 2020

The afternoon session of Gib Talks will see nine speakers take to the stage in the John Mackintosh Hall to share their stories this Saturday. The event that begins at 10am will see speakers talk for 15 minutes and Vox Pop speakers have a time slot of 10 minutes. In today’s edition the Chronicle takes...

31st January 2020

By Lauren Taylor Many of us entered 2020 promising to give up alcohol for a month and, if you've stuck with it, steering clear of booze for that long can feel like a huge achievement. But will you be breathing a sigh of relief and hitting the bar hard in February? Or has a month...

30th January 2020

By Tom Pilgrim, PA The last surviving fighter pilot ace who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain during the Second World War has died. Wing Commander Paul Farnes was among the 3,000 airmen who defended the skies above southern England for three-and-a-half months in 1940. The group are remembered as The Few,...

30th January 2020

By Douglas Barrie, PA Scotland A hedgehog has fully recovered after being found almost completely bald from a severe infection. The creature was found in Comrie, Perth and Kinross, and taken to the Scottish SPCA national wildlife rescue centre at Fishcross on November 10 last year. Named Ratty by the animal welfare charity's staff, he...

30th January 2020

The morning session of Gib Talks will see eight speakers take to the stage in the John Mackintosh Hall to share their stories this Saturday. The event that begins at 10am will see speakers talk for 15 minutes and Vox Pop speakers have a time slot of 10 minutes. In today’s edition the Chronicle takes...

29th January 2020

The pupils at St Joseph’s Primary school presented letters to the managers of local supermarkets making an urgent call for more novel ways to reduce their use of plastic. Representatives from Eroski, Coviran and Morrisons were at the school yesterday morning to speak to the students in person. While welcoming the managers to the school,...

29th January 2020

Fans of the cult BBC science fiction series Dr Who will know that one of the most striking features of the TARDIS (“Time And Relative Dimension in Space”), the doctor’s time machine, was how much larger it was inside than it appeared from the outside. I reckon that our football manager in the early-seventies must...

28th January 2020

By Marlene Hassan Nahon Yesterday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marks the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz. A visit to Auschwitz marked my life too, some five years ago. As a Jewish woman, it channelled a sense of heightened empathy with the atrocities committed behind those ghastly walls,...

28th January 2020

Sir Joe Bossano, Minister for Economic Development, Enterprise, Telecommunications and the Gibraltar Savings Bank, visited the 18th edition of the Gibraltar International Chess Festival. On day four of the Gib Masters he made the opening move at the start of play between Ivan Cheparinov from Georgia and Maksim Chigaev from Russia. He told the packed...

28th January 2020

By Laura Parnaby British slaughterhouses are killing more animals for meat every year to supply the overseas market, despite the increasing popularity of plant-based lifestyles in the UK. Almost 28.8 million farm animals were killed for meat in 2019, marking an increase of 5.4% in two years, Government figures show. On average, 78,900 cows, sheep...

28th January 2020

This year’s Youth Arts Jamboree, a cultural development programme dedicated to young people, will be begin next month. The programme is organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services and activities offered are all geared for children and young people aged between two and 25 years old. The Jamboree will be held from February 17 to March 6,...

27th January 2020

The chief executive of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, Kerry Blight, has vowed to repair the relationship between the regulator and Gibraltar-based business with a more collaborative, empathetic and streamlined approach, even while warning there will be no softening of regulatory standards in a post-Brexit world. Mr Blight was speaking after announcing a wide-ranging shake-up...

27th January 2020

By Laura Elston The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official wedding souvenirs no longer feature in the Royal Collection's online shop in the wake of Harry and Meghan's decision to quit royal life. Released ahead of the couple's 2018 nuptials, the commemorative range included a fine bone china coffee mug, a tankard and a plate,...

25th January 2020

As a young boy Willie Chiappe has a vague idea of a rather short gentleman singing rather well in the Theatre Royal. The year was 1947. The man the great tenor Beniamino Gigli. Willie was in the theatre, outside the demand had been so great there were crowds wanting to listen to him and the...

25th January 2020

By Lisa Salmon Children benefit hugely from learning to make music - not only from the joy music can bring to them and others, but also from the way music-making can boost wellbeing, academic attainment and personal development. On a happy note, research by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has shown the majority of children -...

24th January 2020

By Eyleen Gomez and agencies UN Patron of the Oceans, Lewis Pugh, has become the first person to swim under an Antarctic ice sheet, wearing just a pair of trunks, cap and goggles. Mr Pugh, 50, swam for 10 minutes and 17 seconds in the river underneath the melting ice sheet. The swim formed part...

24th January 2020

The world’s most senior spiritual leader for Sephardi Jews, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, was in Gibraltar this week to visit the Rock’s Jewish community. The visit coincided with the completion of a seven and a half year learning cycle of the Talmud, which has been completed by a number of...

24th January 2020

By Nina Massey He may have lay silent for 3,000 years, but now the voice of a mummified Egyptian priest can be heard once again. The sound of Nesyamun has been reproduced as a vowel-like sound that loosely resembles a protracted sheep's bleat. The priest lived during the politically volatile reign of pharaoh Ramses XI...

24th January 2020

By Lisa Salmon Kidney cancer is on the rise globally and in the UK, yet many people are unaware of the warning signs. To mark Kidney Cancer Awareness Week (February 3-7), the Kidney Cancer UK charity is seeking to help tackle this, by highlighting potential symptoms of the disease and the risk factors that could...

23rd January 2020

Clubhouse Gibraltar unveiled its new premises in Main Street during an emotional opening presentation today. Clubhouse CEO Emily Adamberry Olivero called the premises a “dream come true” and thanked everyone who has supported the charity, at the packed opening event. For Ms Adamberry Olivero mental health is very close to her heart, and a field...