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30th October 2020

The annual Poppy Day Appeal has had to adapt due to Covid-19, with the traditional collection at the Piazza and at other posts throughout Gibraltar cancelled this year. Although the Poppy Day Appeal has turned online, poppies will be distributed by volunteers in local shops and clubs. “We remain determined to mark Remembrance and to...

27th October 2020

A four-year old girl who left Gibraltar for medical treatment when she was just a few days old is adapting to life on the Rock. Mia Mifsud was born in Gibraltar and was taken to the UK at just three days old because of the rare illness autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. For more than...

20th October 2020

By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent Up to a million tonnes of fishing gear is left in the ocean each year, creating “deadly” marine debris for wildlife, conservationists have warned. This “ghost gear” of lost, abandoned or broken nets, lines and ropes makes up at least 10% of marine litter and is the type of...

17th October 2020

Health and emergency authorities in Gibraltar yesterday highlighted ‘Restart a Heart Day’, an international initiative set up to increase the number of people able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the community. CPR is a time-critical intervention. The sooner it is started after cardiac arrest, the more likely that person is to survive. Outside of...

15th October 2020

By Stephen Ignacio and Gabriella Peralta The return of the Gibraltar National League this Friday evening will come at a cost to the sport after it has been obliged by the authorities to request that all players, technical staff and match officials are tested before they resume competition. This was confirmed by Public Health Director...

2nd October 2020

The Gibraltar Citizens Advice Bureau (GCAB) is encouraging people to do something “grandful” for Grandparent’s Day on Sunday. Grandparents Day is a day dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the important contribution made by grandparents to the well-being and education of children within their family. It is an opportunity for families to show their gratitude and...

28th September 2020

Louis Casciaro, a heart transplant patient, and Isabella Ramognin, a survivor of three heart attacks, have a message for Gibraltar on World Heart Day tomorrow: wear red, do some exercise and, above all, look after your heart. Organised locally by the Gibraltar Cardiac Association, World Heart Day aims to work towards reducing the number of...

25th September 2020

The deadline to submit nominations for the GibSams Corporate Wellbeing Recognition Scheme closes today. GibSams welcomes the fact that many companies in Gibraltar have continued to embrace the need to develop and implement effective Health and Wellbeing policies for their employees. “There is a greater need now more than ever to have policies that sufficiently...

19th September 2020

In 1949, two charity concerts were held at the Theatre Royal for the St Vincent de Paul Society. Two of many you might say, and you would be right. But these were special and would go on to live in the memory of the young voices who performed in these concerts and which the Chronicle...

18th September 2020

By Luke Rix-Standing Enormously disrupted by Covid-19, this year’s intake of students will be arriving on very different campuses to those of their forebears, as social distancing, remote working, and quarantine protocols all take their toll on the famously free-spirited student experience. New students could be forgiven for feeling apprehensive, as even in ‘normal’ times,...

16th September 2020

The month of September marks World Alzheimer’s Month and to raise awareness the Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Society has submitted this article to the Chronicle. September 21 every year is World Alzheimer's Day, it is an important day for galvanising attention and calling on governments to act for the millions of people living with dementia...

11th September 2020

By Ella Pickover, PA Health Correspondent A 102-year-old retired nurse is to complete her 102nd charity walk on her birthday. During lockdown Joan Rich set a goal to walk 102 laps of her local park before her 102nd birthday on September 11. Following in Captain Sir Thomas Moore’s footsteps, the former auxiliary nurse and Second...

8th September 2020

Gibraltar will mark National Day on Thursday with a quieter day of celebration against the backdrop of Covid-19 and the limitations of vital public health restrictions that seek to stem the spread of the virus in this community. Like much of life in the new normal, the National Day events including the political rally will...

7th September 2020

By Maria Jesus Corrales Rising cases and a spate of recent deaths have placed greater focus on the spread of Covid-19 in the Campo de Gibraltar, whose citizens, like people around the globe, are learning to live in a new reality overshadowed by the virus and its impact on daily routine. The Campo de Gibraltar...

28th August 2020

By Mike Bedigan, PA A statue commissioned by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex to pay tribute to their mother will be installed on what would have been her 60th birthday. The artwork was commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and to recognise her...

28th August 2020

By Prudence Wade New research has found sedentary behaviours have increased since 2002. Published in the journal BMC Public Health, the study measured the rates of sedentary behaviours – counted as over four-and-a-half hours of sitting a day – across Europe. Some 49.3% of the people involved in the study were inactive for over four-and-a-half...

28th August 2020

By Taz Ali Only one in 10 people plan to return to living exactly as they did before Covid-19 after the pandemic ends, UK researchers have found. The ongoing Covid-19 social study by University College London (UCL) found just over half (51%) of people said they were more likely on balance to return to how...

25th July 2020

By Patrick Daly, PA Political Correspondent Ministers are set to remove Spain from the UK Government’s list of safe countries to travel to after the European country saw a rise in Covid-19 cases, the PA news agency understands. The decision means those coming back from Spain will have to self-isolate for two weeks upon their...

22nd July 2020

In this week’s travel feature, avid traveller Paul Moody describes the day that changed his life whilst on a road trip from Gibraltar to Australia. By Paul Moody September was hot as hell as we hammered through the desert on our way to the isolated city of Zahedan to catch some sleep. The empty ribbon...

21st July 2020

As Gibraltar continues to unlock and enjoy the summer, the development of Covid-19 around the world provides a sobering backdrop to the relative normality on the Rock. That was the message from the Minister for Public Health, Dr John Cortes, as he warned during a press conference on Monday: “What is happening around the world...

17th July 2020

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The Queen – the nation’s longest serving monarch – will have reigned for 25,000 days on Saturday. Elizabeth II became sovereign on February 6 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI, when she just 25. She will have been monarch for 68 years, five months and...

6th July 2020

By Laura Elston The Princess Royal has taken part in a behind-the-scenes documentary to mark her 70th birthday. Anne was followed for more than a year by film-makers for the ITV programme, which will feature unseen family footage and conversations with the princess herself, her children, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, and her husband, Vice...

4th July 2020

The name of Hammond forms a big part of Gibraltar’s history both in musical terms and in servicing the electronic needs of this community. The company still stands today – and although in its 91-year history it may have changed its selling products and location it still retains its retail shop, service and technical department....

2nd July 2020

Not everyone is ready to get the ‘sombrero’ ready for their holidays abroad but easyjet’s plans to start flying to Gibraltar from London again later this month will be a relief to many. The news was confirmed in yesterday’s edition of the Gibraltar Chronicle, albeit with the caveat that given the fluid nature of the...

29th June 2020

A young terminally-ill Scottish boy called Caleb Stirrat has “stolen the hearts of Gibraltar”, whose community has rallied round to make his dream beach holiday come true. Caleb’s family was told earlier this month that the four-year old could have just months to live after a long-running battle with a rare and aggressive brain cancer....

23rd June 2020

Long he had been drifting there before the discovery of the body was for the coroner to determine later. His blouse had ripped on the splintered sides of the tub, the one they used to bathe the elephants, littered with the colourful shreds of his rainbow polka dots. His oversized, blood-red clown shoes were floating...

9th June 2020

The Gibraltar Government yesterday marked World Oceans Day, a global movement that calls on world leaders to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. The World Ocean Day campaign is called 30x30 and the Government said Gibraltar has “already designated 63% of its territorial waters as a Marine Protected Area”, known as the Southern...

3rd June 2020

By Sam Russell A collection of photographs showing life in lockdown will be preserved in an archive following an appeal for the public’s help to create a “time capsule”. People responded in numbers with images of clapping for carers, rainbows, empty streets, social distancing, home haircuts and the natural world. It was the first time...

29th May 2020

Public health officials will carry out a pilot programme to test staff at the Gibraltar Health Authority for Covid-19 antibodies, in a move that will enable them to assess how many key healthcare workers have already been exposed to the virus. The tests, which will start on Monday, will be a precursor to a community-wide...

28th May 2020

Beachgoers are being urged to act responsibly and use their common sense when going to the beach while the red flag is flying during the lockdown period. Despite several calls for lifeguards to start patrolling Gibraltar’s beaches, the Gibraltar Government said it will not bring forward this year’s official bathing season, which is due to...