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15th June 2016

Lectures such as those presented by Professor Ada Yonath will help raise the profile of the University of Gibraltar and enhance its reputation. This was the message from Education Minister Gilbert Licudi on presenting the Israeli crystallographer well known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosomes - the protein builders or the...

10th June 2016

The Gibraltar Government said yesterday that the culling of gulls was “unfortunate but well justified”. The government was reacting to public outcry after a commercial flight was forced to abort it take-off after a bird was sucked into an engine. The Department of the Environment and Climate Change said Yellow-legged gulls fed on refuse generated...

10th June 2016

Lawyers acting on behalf of a man serving a life sentence for attempted murder will bring the case before the Court of Appeal to argue for a reduction in the minimum jail term he must serve before he is eligible for parole. Edward Celecia, 54, was convicted of attempted murder in 2012 after he stabbed...

10th June 2016

Bryan Ferry, one of the biggest names of the British music industry of the seventies and eighties, will perform at GMF2016. Ferry was the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the glam art rock band Roxy Music with three number one albums and 10 top 10 singles in the UK between 1972 and 1982 – hits like Virginia Plain, Street Life and Love...

7th June 2016

Gibraltarian choral conductor, Helen Wade, led the combined festival choirs in singing the National Anthem for The Queen, Prince Philip and other members of the Royal family attending the Epsom Derby last Saturday. Seven local choirs taking part in the "Epsom in Harmony" festival in early July, were invited by the Jockey Club at Epsom...

7th June 2016

The Gibraltar Government has accused the GSD of making inconsistent comments on the refurbishment and beautification works on Government estates. The Opposition campaigned before the general election on the ticket that the Government was spending too much money, the Government said in a statement yesterday evening. This money, the Government said, was being spent precisely...

4th June 2016

Main Street ground to a halt yesterday as the local community paid its respects to Royal Gibraltar Regiment soldier Private Matthew Boyd, who died in tragic circumstances in Wales last month. Men and women from the regiment and Gibraltar’s essential services paid tribute to the fallen soldier by lining Main Street at midday as the...

3rd June 2016

Joe Bossano has told the C-24 that he will keep coming back to committee year-on-year until he is “100 years old” to fight for the Gibraltarian people’s right to self-determination. Mr Bossano, the Minister for Economic Development, made the comments during an address to the United Nations Pacific Regional Seminar of the Committee on Decolonisation...

2nd June 2016

The Gibraltar Government and the Opposition clashed again yesterday over the Rock’s poor air quality. This follows the recent World Health Organisation report which found that Gibraltar exceeds the organisation’s recommended levels for air pollution. The GSD initiated the exchange yesterday when it issued a statement claiming that the main cause of air pollution in...

31st May 2016

The statistics demonstrate that illegal incursions into British Gibraltar Waters are down and marine life is on the increase, the Gibraltar Government reiterated on Friday in the latest round of exchanges over fishing incursions. Nonetheless, the Government conceded that there is still work to be done. In a statement it said the Department of the...

27th May 2016

A 15-year old girl broke down in tears yesterday as she became the first person in Gibraltar to receive an anti-social behaviour order, or ASBO. The girl, who cannot be named, will be subject to the ASBO for six months after she made life unbearable for the residents of three of Gibraltar’s housing estates. The...

26th May 2016

Two teenage girls who ‘made life unbearable’ for residents of three of Gibraltar’s estates could be made the subjects of the Rock’s first ASBOs, or anti-social behaviour orders. Residents of Mid-Harbour, Glacis and Laguna Estates finally spoke up about the girls, aged 15 and 17 respectively, after their unruly anti-social behaviour ‘terrorised’ residents for over...

26th May 2016

Fishing incursions are well down on previous years, the Gibraltar Government said yesterday in response to GSD criticisms that the practice continues today despite a GSLP/Liberal pledge to end it. Between January and the end of April 2015 there were a total of 66 fishing incursions, an average of 16.5 per month, whereas in the...

24th May 2016

Fishing with nets and raking in British Gibraltar waters continues today despite a GSLP/Liberal 2011 manifesto pledge to end the practice, the GSD has said. Three Spanish fishing boats were seen and photographed this week raking on the west side of the runway very near the artificial reef. In a statement the Opposition said it...

21st May 2016

Opposition MPs Elliott Phillips and Trevor Hammond insisted yesterday that they had no aspirations to lead the GSD. The two MPs were reacting to claims made by Marlene Hassan Nahon in a resignation letter to GSD leader Daniel Feetham earlier this week. Ms Hassan Nahon described the two MPs as ‘yes men’ who had “poisoned”...

18th May 2016

Childline Gibraltar is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week with a stall at Gibraltar College yesterday and another stall at Bayside School today. The aim of the stalls is to ensure teenagers are aware of mental health issues and to come forward if they feel they are not coping. Childline members spent the day interacting with...

12th May 2016

by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Chief Minister Fabian Picardo Gibraltar has been a bastion of the British way of life on the Mediterranean for more than 300 years. Its role as a strategic British military base is well-known and under our watch, that will continue. But Gibraltar is now so much more.  From its...

11th May 2016

The Baton - “a symbol of pride, hope, courage and suffering” that carries a message of support for the armed forces – has arrived in Gibraltar. Its creator Alan Rowe and his wife Pauline are spending a week in Gibraltar with the aim of bringing more attention to the Gibraltar Regiment. He wants the Regiment...

9th May 2016

Friends and comrades of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment soldier who died in Wales over the weekend have paid tribute to an outstanding man who epitomised the very spirit of the regiment. The soldier was fornally named tonight as Private Matthew Boyd, 20, and tributes were led by Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Ivor Lopez, who said that the whole regiment...

9th May 2016

by Ivan Hernandez When we think about the circus we probably form a mental image with clowns, trapeze artists, striped tents, happy children and wild animals ready to wow the crowd performing tricks. This all sounds harmless enough, and it is an institution that goes back to the 18th century. Without doubt travelling circuses have...

5th May 2016

Jennifer del Corazón de Jesus, Jennifer Gomila, was in Gibraltar yesterday on a short visit. Jennifer is an enclosed Gibraltarian Carmelite nun who follows the Discalced Carmelite Rule and lives in the monastery in Ronda. Only in Gibraltar on rare occasions since she joined the order 31 years ago, the last time she was here...

4th May 2016

Artist WillaVasquez returns with a new solo exhibition at the Fine Art Gallery this evening with the official opening of ‘New Works’. The seven years since her last solo exhibition has seen the artist take a new direction and develop a new style. “I am at an age where I have painted hundreds of paintings,...

3rd May 2016

Preserving Gibraltar’s iconic views from overdevelopment is the subject of a recently published report which also calls for a new planning scheme to address the issue. The Gibraltar Heritage Trust, in collaboration with the Environmental Safety Group and Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society, is proposing a new scheme to safeguard Gibraltar’s “scenic heritage”. Views...

27th April 2016

The Gibraltar Government has failed to explain how it intends to address the ‘serious problem’ of Gibraltar’s empty and decaying buildings, Action for Housing said yesterday. Urban decay was recently the subject of a Viewpoint programme on GBC in which the pressure group drew attention to some of the Upper Town’s crumbling and derelict buildings....

22nd April 2016

A £24m marina project at Coaling Island containing 700 small berths and around 600 metres for commercial activity, specifically for superyachts, was completed yesterday ahead of its official opening next Tuesday. The two-year long project conducted by contractors GJBS includes a 16-metre-wide public promenade with seating facilities doubling up as protective barriers and a security...

21st April 2016

Musician Lance Corporal James Ballantine yesterday formed part of the Household Cavalry which exercised their Freedom of the City of London, with Standards raised, drums beating, swords drawn and bayonets fixed. The Household Cavalry is made up of two regiments: the Blues and Royals and the Life Guards. The parade was led by the Household...

18th April 2016

British ocean racing legend Alan Priddy will this week re-launch Team Britannia’s multi-million pound round the world record bid which will start and finish in Gibraltar. In addition to the race Team Britannia are planning a week of maritime activities starting off with a return to the Rock of the Thundercat Racing Teams and finishing...

15th April 2016

I address you as your Chief Minister in a Ministerial Statement because as from tomorrow the broadcasting rules relating to the EU referendum will not allow me to do so on our national broadcaster. My address to you is unprecedented as I speak to you, not just on behalf of the Government, but on behalf...

14th April 2016

Police dogs and armed officers yesterday stormed a building in search of a ‘suspect’ brandishing a knife – as part of a training exercise preparing for a ‘worst case scenario’. The Gibraltar Defence Police incorporated the training of its Dog Section with its firearm squad as part of a training exercise to defuse a potential...

13th April 2016

The Gibraltar Defence Police today incorporated its Dog Section with its firearms squad as part of a training exercise to counter a weapons threat. This is the first time that such an exercise has ever been attempted in Gibraltar. Footage, taken from a GoPro strapped to police dog Nemo, shows the 2-year old Belgian Shepherd take...