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2nd April 2020

In light of the current crisis, and to help us all get through these challenging times, we decided to bring back our ever popular newsletter – The Beneficiary- after 101 issues. Enjoy this special issue! Here are 10 Lessons Gibraltar has learnt so far from the Corona Crisis: 1. We have strong leadership and a...

2nd April 2020

With non-essential travel restricted worldwide due to Covid-19, Shaun Yeo reflects on a previous trip to Jordan as a travel destination to look forward to once this crisis is over. By Shaun Yeo In this month’s travel feature, I look back at my past trip to Jordan. Unfortunately travel is now limited due to the...

2nd April 2020

There’s one thing I miss living away from Gibraltar. The sense of community. The many acts of kindness don’t surprise me. The massive response from volunteers is what we would expect from Gibraltarians. Like we have proven many times in our history when the going gets tough we stick together – even politicians. In these...

1st April 2020

Their baby girl was born on a Monday morning and, within a matter of hours, swaddled in a soft clean cloth she was cradled in her mother’s arms as she left the maternity wing of the hospital. But this is not the Lindo Wing and another Royal birth, this is the story of the first...

1st April 2020

By Luke Rix-Standing Once the preserve of reclusive novelists, working from home has suddenly gone from occasional to near-universal. Recent years had already seen a shift towards more remote and flexible working, to be fair – but the coronavirus pandemic has forced countless businesses to set up shop at home. If you’re totally new to...

31st March 2020

With Gibraltar in lock down, many are spending more time at home and looking for distractions. Kim Pecino is a librarian with experience in public and school libraries, and today she shared three book recommendations. POETRY : The Princess Saves Herself In This One – Amanda Lovelace This poetry collection is highly autobiographical, and as...

29th March 2020

The Gibraltar Government is working to procure an antibody test with which to assess how many people in the community recovered from Covid-19 without realising they had been infected with the virus. The tests, which have yet to be sourced, are different to the random testing that the GHA announced this weekend and which aims...

28th March 2020

The Commissioner of Police, Ian McGrail, has called for a tightening of the terms of lockdown including on-the-spot fines for those who flout the measures in the face of the ongoing public health emergency. Mr McGrail put a request to the Minister for Civil Contingencies, Samantha Sacramento, yesterday to consider introducing fixed penalties for breaches...

28th March 2020

When I first joined the Gibraltar Chronicle as its Features Editor, now over 20 years ago, I took with me all my many contacts made whilst at GBC and later as a freelancer, plus all my friends involved in the arts, music and culture. You may think that practically covered most of Gibraltar but the...

27th March 2020

The Gibraltar Health Authority will carry out tests in the community to better assess and understand the spread of Covid-19 in Gibraltar, the Gibraltar Government announced on Friday. The GHA said the virus represented “the biggest challenge to Gibraltar” in recent history and that the data would better help it target resources to best protect...

26th March 2020

'Stay home, stay alive,' was the message from Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia yesterday, as the Royal Gibraltar Police flagged how people continue to be out and about despite lockdown measures restricting movement to the bare essentials.  This comes as a further nine cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the last 24 hours taking...

26th March 2020

With non-essential travel restricted worldwide, this week Gibraltarian travellers Louise-Anne Mañasco and Max Pizarro reflect on the situation in their new home in Dubai and look back on a recent visit to Oman. As most borders are now being shut, businesses are entering a state of temporary hibernation and with social gatherings a big no...

26th March 2020

With the 2019/20 European club competitions on hold until further notice and UEFA EURO 2020 postponed until next year, UEFA will be opening its archive of European football to re-run some of the most memorable fixtures from down the years. In an announcement this Wednesday the European football governing body stated that they would be...

25th March 2020

by Alice Mascarenhas and Eyleen Gomez Legendary footballer from the golden era of football on the Rock, Albert Beiso, turned the grand old age of 100 yesterday. A former fireman, one of the first civilian intakes of the late 1940s, the Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service deployed to Bishop Canilla House yesterday at 2pm to...

24th March 2020

Gibraltar's Summer Games double sprint gold medalist and national record holder Jessy Franco claimed a much deserved Senior Sports Individual award this year. The young athlete who has taken the athletics scene by storm this past couple of years breaking the 100m 11 second barrier and getting two gold medals in last years Summer Games...

24th March 2020

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced a second round of economic measures yesterday which, he said, would place “a shield around working people” and help to tackle the repercussions on business of the ongoing public health emergency.  The scheme will be known as the Business & Employee Assistance Terms (or BEAT) and will act as a...

21st March 2020

By Gavin Cordon, PA Whitehall Editor Ministers are facing mounting pressure to give front-line NHS staff the protective equipment they need as they tackle the coronavirus crisis. Former Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt joined calls for the Government to "sort this out", adding: "We are asking people to put their own lives at risk on...

21st March 2020

The 1950s have always been referred to as the golden age of football on the Rock – Gibraltar United, St Joseph FC, Britannia, Prince of Wales and Europa were the leading teams. Playing for Europa then was a young man who started his football career during the 1938-39 season with the Kangaroos, a junior GFA...

20th March 2020

By Nick Perry, Associated Press Globally, the death toll from Covid-19 passed 10,000 and infections exceeded 244,000, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. More than 86,000 people have recovered, mostly in China, but the pace is much slower than the spread of the virus. Recovery takes two weeks or so for mild cases but...

20th March 2020

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The Queen has issued a message of solidarity to the UK amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the country's "history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one". The 93-year-old monarch, in her first public statement on the crisis, said the country was "entering a...

20th March 2020

Lucy Pardoe and Ollie Hughes, two performers who live in the Costa Del Sol have created ‘Rock the Lock Down’ a way for people to be entertained and have their spirits lifted during the Covid19 lockdown. The event will be held online and the couple are inviting everyone to join in. “What started out as...

19th March 2020

By Michael Drummond, PA South East Correspondent With supermarket shelves across Britain stripped bare as coronavirus panic-buying continues, how food arrives in our shops is increasingly under the spotlight. Five million vehicles pass through the Port of Dover every year, making it Europe's busiest ferry port and a vital cog in the country's supply chain....

19th March 2020

Gibraltarian couple Henry and Priscilla Sacramento have decided to self-isolate during the coronavirus outbreak in their home in Tangier, Morocco. The couple, who were in Tangier when news broke that the virus had spread to Morocco, decided to stay put when all passenger flights were suspended. Morocco has since shut down all Mosques, and as...

19th March 2020

By Lauren Taylor Many of us were told as children to stand up straight - but how often do you inadvertently find yourself slouching over your desk, shoulders rounded, head dipped? And we'd bet anything you've just straightened up after reading that? It's almost like we need continual reminders throughout the day to remember our...

19th March 2020

Coronavirus. Social distancing. Self-isolation. Words that have sadly become a part of our daily vocabulary. Such is the intense effect on all our lives that there’s only one thing we’re all talking about. Life as we know it has dramatically changed. If you thought this week was tough there is a harsh warning – it’s...

18th March 2020

There was uncertainty and worry echoed by many at the prospect that Gibraltar was entering an emergency public health crisis. “Keep safe and take care,” were words repeated many a time from shop keepers to shoppers, tourists to locals, police to the media. As an eery silence befell Gibraltar’s streets, the community watched, many from...

16th March 2020

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo last night underscored the vital need to follow public health advice in order to ease pressure on Gibraltar’s healthcare services, as two new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Gibraltar. In a broadcast address on GBC, Mr Picardo said the Gibraltar Health Authority and other essential services had worked relentlessly in...

16th March 2020

The Director for Public Health, Dr Sohail Bhatti, has today advised new criteria for self-isolation. If you have any of the following symptoms, you should immediately go home and self-isolate for 10 days. Please call 111 as soon as you can to tell the GHA about your symptoms and a dedicated infection control practitioner will...

14th March 2020

There are people in your life you associate with a certain area of town, an office or a building. This is the case with the person who sits at my table this week and who has been connected to the City Hall for more than 60 years. Throughout my entire working life, the City Hall...

13th March 2020

Spain will be in a state of emergency for the next 15 days to better combat the coronavirus, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today, in a dramatic increase to the policy response that will allow authorities to confine people and ration goods. The state of emergency, which Sanchez said will formally be decided by a...