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9th May 2017

The Gibraltar Government and GSD Opposition yesterday clashed over the number of former senior civil servants that have been re-engaged by the Government. This comes after the Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Feetham, took to social media to flag an answer to parliamentary questions earlier this year regarding the salaries paid to three re-engaged former...

5th May 2017

The second phase of the Gibraltar Nature Cameras Project has seen the installation of two live-feed cameras showing the nests of the Pallid Swift, one of Gibraltar’s most well-known visiting birds. Dr John Cortes, the Minister for Environment made the announcement yesterday in the presence of Stephen Warr Senior Environmental Officer and Karl Netto an...

5th May 2017

Gibraltar has become one of the first countries in the world to provide near complete protection to all species of sharks, rays and skates, in a move that was praised yesterday by the UN Patron of the Oceans, Lewis Pugh. The Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Dr John Cortes, yesterday published a significant...

4th May 2017

Minister for Education Dr. John Cortes has officially unveiled the ‘Gibraltar Studies Collage Quilt’ displays at Governor's Meadow First School. Yesterday Dr Cortes visited the school and got the opportunity to see the work carried out by the schools and also spoke to the teachers and pupils involved. Dr Cortes said it was wonderful to...

22nd April 2017

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment has a new Commanding Officer. He is Lieutenant Colonel David King, who yesterday took over from Lieutenant Colonel Ivor Lopez shortly after he attended his last official function on his final day as CO at the firing of a 21 Gun Royal Salute on The Queen’s 91st birthday. At midday at...

19th April 2017

by Mike Nicholls Yesterday’s announcement was another surprise in the world of politics. So what will be the impact on the Gibraltar property market? Since the referendum, the Gibraltar property market has been remarkably resilient. Within a week of last year’s shock vote, there was a surge in rental demand and within a few weeks,...

18th April 2017

An endangered Loggerhead turtle was released after being rescued and nursed by local environmental officials. The turtle was discovered by Customs officers during a routine patrol of the British Gibraltar territorial waters. It was struggling to dive and ran the risk of being hit by a vessel in the busy bay. The Department of the...

18th April 2017

Spanish police and Guardia Civil officers were pelted with rocks on Sunday after they tried to stop a drug smuggling operation, in an incident that highlights the dangers faced by law enforcement officers tackling organised crime. The officers were attacked by scores of people as they attempted to intercept smugglers preparing to unload bales on...

18th April 2017

“There is nothing more vital to Gibraltar than its unified Community,” said Governor Lt Gen Edward Davis at the lighting ceremony of the Unity Candle on Maundy Thursday at the Convent. “Equally, nobody has done more to protect, progress and promote this Community than Momy Levy. They are both an inspiration to us all,” he said...

17th April 2017

Spanish police and Guardia Civil officers were pelted with rocks on Sunday after they tried to stop a drug smuggling operation, in an incident that highlights the dangers faced by law enforcement officers tackling organised crime. The officers were attacked by scores of people as they attempted to intercept smugglers preparing to unload bales on...

11th April 2017

The funeral of former Leader of the Opposition Maurice Xiberras will be held in Gibraltar next week. Following a service in London his body will then be repatriated to Gibraltar where the funeral will be held on Thursday 20 April. Maurice Xiberras, a pioneering Gibraltarian politician and former a former Leader of the Opposition, had...

10th April 2017

A series of reforms will be introduced in A&E, the Accident and Emergency Department at the Gibraltar Health Authority. The department will be streamlined to focus on accidents, emergencies and acutely unwell patients with two Charge Nurses also being deployed to this area. Meanwhile more than 500 GP appointments have also been saved each month...

7th April 2017

Former Labour Europe Minister, Peter Hain, the Minister at the centre of the Joint-Sovereignty proposals in 2002, has asserted this is still the best way forward and that Gibraltar “will have to think again”. In an opinion in the Guardian yesterday he suggested, that having tried to negotiate a co-sovereignty arrangement with Spain, Britain should...

4th April 2017

The GSD has called for an unequivocal rejection of the so-called clause 22 to protect Gibraltar’s economic interests. In welcoming the statements made by UK Government and its Ministers over the weekend, the GSD believes that there has been a focus in those statements on sovereignty commitments and that welcome as these are, the double...

2nd April 2017

London is resilient. The people here continue with their daily routines. The city remains calm and carries on in a defiant mood. Terrorists want to strike fear into people’s lives. We cannot allow it. They must not win. As Prime Minster Theresa May said: “It is in these actions - millions of acts of normality...

30th March 2017

A growing row over Theresa May's apparent threat to pull security co-operation unless Brussels agrees a trade deal is a "misunderstanding", a Cabinet minister has insisted. In her letter to European Council president Donald Tusk triggering Article 50, the Prime Minister warned that failure to reach a comprehensive settlement would lead to a weakening in...

28th March 2017

The final two contestants for the Miss Gibraltar 2017 pageant signed up yesterday and the deadline for applications has now elapsed. This means there are a total of nine contestants who will be competing for the crown of Miss Gibraltar 2017. Sinead Benson, 18, and 21-year old Emma-Jane Gaivizo Victory signed at the Gibraltar Exhibitions...

24th March 2017

British people have shown terrorists they "will not defeat us" by carrying on with their lives as normal after the "sickening" Westminster attack, Theresa May told the House of Commons yesterday. The Prime Minister said Parliament was sending out the message following Wednesday's attack by a knife-wielding terrorist that "we will never waver in the...

24th March 2017

The Prime Minister has praised the "extraordinary" bravery of Tobias Ellwood as calls grew for him to be given an honour after he battled to save the life of a police officer in the Westminster terror atrocity. Mr Ellwood, a Conservative Foreign Office Minister who was once an aide-de-camp to a Gibraltar governor, ran towards...

23rd March 2017

The UK Parliament will put on a show of stoic defiance when MPs attempt to go about their daily duties, less than 24 hours after a terror attack brought death and destruction to the heart of London. Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords will sit at their normal times on Thursday,...

22nd March 2017

Four people, including an armed police officer, have been killed after a knifeman brought terror to the heart of Westminster. The attacker, armed with two large knives, mowed down pedestrians with his car on Westminster Bridge, including schoolchildren, then rushed at the gates in front of the Houses of Parliament, stabbing the policeman before being...

22nd March 2017

By Len McClusky Gibraltar is uniquely exposed to the hard Brexit being pursued by Theresa May as she prepares to trigger Article 50. The implications for Unite members here are deep and serious. The extent of trade and social links between Gibraltar and Spain present the Rock’s industries with profound challenges. Unite members, Gibraltar residents,...

22nd March 2017

by Alice Mascarenhas and Clive Mendez Maurice Xiberras, a pioneering Gibraltarian politician who championed close links with Britain, died suddenly at the weekend at the age of 80 in the UK. Yesterday, the flag at the Gibraltar Parliament building flew at half-mast in his honour. A former teacher and trade unionist, Mr Xiberras served as...

11th March 2017

The Gibraltar Government has reiterated its ‘complete support’ for the local insurance sector as well as its confidence in the ‘important’ role played by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission in delivering ‘high European standards of insurance regulation’. This follows recent media reports relating to comments attributed to the Irish Regulator, the Central Bank of Ireland...

7th March 2017

Emma Buttigieg is the first contestant to sign on for the Miss Gibraltar 2017 pageant. Recruitment for the pageant began three weeks ago and organisers are searching for more ladies aged between 17 and 25. 21 year old Emma posed for photographs yesterday and walked the runway at the Gibraltar Exhibitions of Modern Art Gallery...

4th March 2017

Theresa May has warned the Scottish Government that control over policy areas such as fishing and agriculture might not come to Holyrood in the wake of Brexit. The Prime Minister said while no powers will be taken away from Scottish ministers as a result of the decision to leave the European Union, responsibilities that transfer...

3rd March 2017

At Notre Dame School they organised a special Skype link with UK where the children were able to speak to a children’s author Michael Wayne Rosen. He interacted with the children and they were able to ask questions. Mr Rosen is an English children’s novelist and poet, the author of 140 books. His books include...

2nd March 2017

One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to “read and travel”. It’s the same advice I pass on when asked. My niece Aimee, who is in Middle School, has been telling me about a recent shopping trip. She did so with a huge sense of excitement, showing me a number...

28th February 2017

The Department of Education has published a Code of Conduct for Teachers to serve as “a guiding compass” on professional and ethical issues. At the launch yesterday at No.6 Convent Place, the Minster for Education, Dr John Cortes, welcomed the development. “Education is not just about exams but much more than that,” he said, adding...

28th February 2017

Sir Gerald Kaufman, the oldest serving MP in the House of Commons and a staunch support of Gibraltar, has died at 86. The family of the Labour MP for Manchester Gorton said he died on Sunday evening after battling a long-term illness. Throughout his political career, Sir Gerald tirelessly defended Gibraltar in the Commons. In...