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9th December 2016

An amateur boxer who boasted he was the ‘hardest man in town’ showed no remorse yesterday as he was jailed for 16 years for a “sustained and savage” assault that ended the life of a 20-year old soldier from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. Private Matthew Boyd, 20, died in the barracks town of Brecon, South...

8th December 2016

A Welsh boxer who boasted he was the ‘hardest man in town’ will spend the next 16 years in jail for murdering a soldier from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. Jake Vallely, 24, denied murder but was found guilty following a three week trial at Cardiff Crown Court last week. At a sentencing hearing at the same court today he...

7th December 2016

The Monument to Women was unveiled by Justine Picardo yesterday on the 50th anniversary year of the Gibraltar Housewives Association today known as the Gibraltar Women’s Association. It was back in 1966 when a group of pioneering women formed the association on the Rock. Architect Ruth Massias Greenberg and sculptor Ermelinda Duarte spent six months...

7th December 2016

Gibraltar’s second Health and Lifestyle survey pegged ‘high smoking levels’ to the low price of tobacco as it revealed more younger people are lighting up. The survey focusing on the wellbeing of the local community was unveiled yesterday and also highlighted the Rock’s high obesity rates, as well as more positive trends including low alcohol...

6th December 2016

When I came to London one of the things I was sure about was that I did not want to lose my strong links with Gibraltar. That is why I try to follow as much local news as I can during the week. The internet allows me to do this in various forms.  Unfortunately, over the past...

6th December 2016

The British Government's use of the royal prerogative to trigger the process of taking Britain out of the European Union is not being done on a "whim" or "out of a clear blue sky", the UK's highest court has heard. Attorney General Jeremy Wright told 11 Supreme Court justices at the start of one of the most important...

5th December 2016

The British Government goes to the Supreme Court in London today in the latest stage of the legal battle over Brexit. The highest court in the land is being asked to overturn a High Court ruling that the Prime Minister must seek MPs' approval to trigger the process of taking Britain out of the European...

1st December 2016

When I came to London one of the things I was sure about was that I did not want to lose my strong links with Gibraltar. That is why I try to follow as much local news as I can during the week. The internet allows me to do this in various forms.  Unfortunately, over the past...

28th November 2016

Recreational and medicinal use of cannabis should not be penalised, Health and Justice Minister Neil Costa said last week, adding he believed Gibraltar should have a community-wide debate on decriminalisation. Mr Costa was speaking on GBC’s Viewpoint just days after the Equality Rights Group and rehabilitation campaigners Stay Clean called for Gibraltar to review its...

23rd November 2016

Gibraltar “will be part” of the Brexit negotiations, Spain’s Minister for Education, Culture and Sport said yesterday, suggesting a marked shift from the hardline stance adopted by former Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, who is also the Spanish Government's spokesman, reflected on the importance...

22nd November 2016

The GIBFIT Fitness Awareness Day in aid of Cancer Research UK was held on Saturday at the Victoria Stadium. The day was organised in conjunction with Cancer Research UK Gibraltar Branch, GIBFIT and the Ministry of Sports and Culture. It proved a fun filled day offering a variety of fitness disciplines delivered by International Fitness...

22nd November 2016

The Gibraltar Government and the GSD yesterday became embroiled in a row over the establishment of the Gibraltar Consultative Council. The exchanges began with the GSD slamming the GCC as “secret, dangerous and undemocratic”, prompting a furious reaction from the Government about the Opposition’s “infantile” position on this. The GSD said the new council would...

22nd November 2016

The Spanish research ship involved in a string of tense incursions over the weekend appeared to cut short its work yesterday, sailing from Gibraltar waters just after midday under stormy skies and amid a brewing diplomatic row. As the vessel sailed out into the Alboran Sea in heavy rain and rough seas, diplomats worked to...

11th November 2016

John Shephard was a reporter’s reporter, an ‘old school’ newsman through and through. He was straight talking and had strong views he was not afraid to share. But in a world inundated with opinion, he understood implicitly the value of hard facts and good, old-fashioned reporting. John was best known for writing about sport –...

11th November 2016

One of Gibraltar’s most respected sports journalists, the doyen of the local sports community, John Shephard Snr has died at the age of 81. A veteran in his field and a long serving member and stalwart of this newspaper, John – who wrote under the pen-name JES - was still writing his column just a...

3rd November 2016

A parliamentary debate yesterday exposed the differing views on Gibraltar held by Spanish political parties, who share common ground on Spain’s sovereignty claim but are split on key issues including the right to self-determination. The debate in the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress left no doubt that Spain’s principal parties want Gibraltar back,...

1st November 2016

The Bishop of Gibraltar, Carmel Zammit, has appealed to Gibraltar’s lawmakers to explore legislative ways to strengthen family life on the Rock. In a sermon during the traditional Gibraltar Day in London mass at Our Lady of Dolours church in Fulham, Bishop Zammit also appealed for caution when passing new laws that could impact on...

29th October 2016

If you plot them on a map of the world, the trade routes across the oceans are like a richly woven tapestry linking east to west, north to south. More than two simple axes, it is a picture that is constantly changing, a dynamic web overlaying the globe and shifting constantly in response to the...

23rd October 2016

The famous and very successful Spanish tourism slogan of the 1960s – “Spain is different” – which it was then as the country was the only dictatorship in Western Europe apart from Portugal – has come back to haunt Spaniards, but this time for very different reasons. The country has been without a functioning government...

14th October 2016

The Court of Appeal has reduced the minimum jail terms that two men convicted of unrelated “heinous” and “outrageous” knife attacks in Gibraltar must serve before they can apply for parole. David Bonnici and Edward Celecia had each been sentenced to life imprisonment for carrying out the attacks, with the recommendation they serve a minimum...

12th October 2016

The promenade around the Mid Harbours Marina was officially named ‘Peter Isola Promenade’ yesterday, in honour of one of Gibraltar’s leading past politicians. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo unveiled a street sign together with Rosie Isola, Mr Isola’s widow, and other members of the Isola family including his daughter Roseanne and sons Lawrence, Peter and Albert,...

6th October 2016

As they walked into the UN Fourth Committee session in New York on Tuesday, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Gibraltar delegation were expecting a full-frontal diplomatic assault from Spain. For days in the run-up to the meeting, the rightwing Spanish daily ABC, which can be relied on to reflect Madrid’s line, had prepared the...

6th October 2016

For the first time Gibraltar Health Authority staff attended an Advanced Life and Trauma Support course run by St George’s University Hospital. Staff from St George’s travelled to Gibraltar to give the course, with this also marking a first for the UK hospital that has never given the course abroad. As a result there were...

5th October 2016

Gibraltar will never barter its sovereignty in exchange for EU access after Brexit, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the UN Fourth Committee yesterday, rebutting a formal offer of "co-sovereignty" from Spain. He made the statement just minutes after Spain’s ambassador to the UN, Román Oyarzun Marchesi, outlined Spain’s proposal for joint sovereignty to a packed...

4th October 2016

Commissioner of Police Eddie Yome and the Chairman of the Gibraltar Police (Staff) Association, Henry Bautista yesterday signed a collective agreement that ratifies the change from the current “Four-Shift” operating system to a new “Five-Shift” operating system. An RGP press statement said an accompanying restructure would see front-line operational officers now distributed into five (previously...

27th September 2016

A different kind of exhibition opens today at the Gibraltar Garrison Library. ‘Jacobo Azagury at The Garrison Library, An Exhibition of Selected Drawings and Sketches’ is an  exhibition and sale of work of some 500 drawings and sketches of the late and much loved Gibraltarian artist Jacobo Azagury. The week-long show will include a series...

23rd September 2016

The Gibraltar Government has rejected an accusation that it ‘blacklisted’ Opposition MP Roy Clinton, insisting the GSD politician had ‘requested’ to be removed from the guest list for official events. The Chronicle revealed yesterday that Mr Clinton, the shadow Minister for Heritage, had not been invited to the inauguration of Gorham’s cave complex UNESCO World...

20th September 2016

There is no conflict between being British and being European, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia has told the plenary session of the UK Liberal Democrats conference in Brighton. Dr Garcia was given special permission to address the conference during the debate on a Policy Motion on Britain and the European Union. He explained...

18th September 2016

Three young men were detained early Sunday morning after being spotted in a small dinghy inside the harbour. The three, believed to be Moroccans aged between 18 and 23, claimed to have paddled across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco trying to reach Spain. They were seen in the harbour basin to the rear of Europlaza by...

3rd September 2016

The continued attempts by Spain’s acting Foreign Minister, José Manuel García Margallo, to link a UK Brexit deal with the sharing of Gibraltar’s sovereignty show that he has “lost all grasp of reality”, the GSD said yesterday. The GSD was reacting to comments made by Spain’s acting foreign minister, specifically that Spain will brief other...