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22nd September 2026

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment will hold its third Insight Weekend from October 16 to 18, offering young people aged 15 and over an opportunity to experience military life at Devil’s Tower Camp. The three-day residential event is aimed at people considering a military career who want to gain an insight into life in the Regiment...

22nd September 2026

The Gibraltar Football Association, in collaboration with the Gibraltar Health Authority and supported by the Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Society, announced that Gibraltar’s Men’s National Team’s FIFA International Friendly against São Tomé & Príncipe is to become the first-ever Dementia Awareness International on the Rock. The match will take place at Europa Point Stadium tomorrow...

22nd September 2026

Joe Gingell’s long-running effort to put names to the faces in photographs dating from the Evacuation continues with an exhibition at the John Mackintosh Hall.  400 photographs, selected from nearly 1,000 that have been donated towards Mr Gingell’s project, will be on display, the result of the past 25 years of his research.  The exhibition...

22nd September 2026

Chris Anne Alcantara has been selected for a second consecutive year in a prestigious Spanish art competition, Almenara Art Prize, this time with what she describes as one of the most personal works of her career, a self portrait titled “Between Versions of Myself - Beyond the Green Stripe.” The online competition, which last year...

21st September 2026

Prior Park School Gibraltar is celebrating 10 years since it opened, a decade in which the school has grown to four times its original size. Since then, 650 children have been educated at the school, which has built its approach around three core values: curiosity, generosity and courage.  For Headteacher Paul Martyn, the anniversary is also...

21st September 2026

Cross-border worker Seila Pavón Guerrero will be the PSOE candidate for La Línea in the municipal elections due to be held in May 2027. The PSOE Provincial Executive Committee in Cádiz approved her nomination on Monday morning. Ms Pavón is a law graduate from the University of Cádiz and is living in La Línea since...

21st September 2026

A former teacher and Scout leader convicted of multiple sexual offences against children was jailed for 14 years on Monday.  Clayton Busto, 43, was found guilty by a jury last June of 16 charges involving four victims aged between 14 and 17 at the time of the offences, some of which dated back to 2007.   The...

21st September 2026

The Museo Cruz Herrera is exhibiting 23 paintings by the prolific portraitist that have never had a public showing as part of the third edition of its Ineditos initiative which aims to bring his little-known works to greater prominence.  The museum has previously displayed collections of its prolific namesake’s work, such as an exhibition in January featuring portraits exclusively of blonde women.  Director Mercedes Corbacho said that around 40% of the museum’s Cruz Herrera paintings have never been exhibited publicly and...

21st September 2026

Prior Park School Gibraltar is celebrating 10 years since it opened, a decade in which the school has grown to four times its original size. Since then, 650 children have been educated at the school, which has built its approach around three core values: curiosity, generosity and courage.  For Headteacher Paul Martyn, the anniversary is also...

21st September 2026

By Gianna Stanley (*) Representing Gibraltar at the 13th Commonwealth Youth Parliament (CYP13) in Sydney, Australia, was an experience I know I will continue talking about for many years to come. Over the course of a week, I was given the opportunity to step into the shoes of a parliamentarian, debate legislation, deliver speeches in...

18th September 2026

Puneet Sabhnani was chosen as one of Gibraltar’s two representatives to this year’s Commonwealth Youth Parliament, held last summer in Sydney, Australia. Today, Mr Sabhnani writes of his experiences there and, on Monday, the Chronicle will publish an account written by the second representative, Gianna Stanley.  Ten days ago, I stepped out of a parliament in Sydney. In...

17th September 2026

Miss Gibraltar Julia Horne returned to Gibraltar with a Top 20 finish in the Miss World pageant, a significant achievement. Beyond the result, Ms Horne’s journey was both professional and personal, as she sought to make Gibraltar proud while turning her grief into a drive to raise awareness of cancer. She carried the memory of her late sister...

17th September 2026

The thing about absence is, that the emptiness of what has gone doesn’t stay that way for long. Memory rushes in to fill the gap. And what is memory, if not mostly a craft of imagination? We begin to shape the story of our conversations almost as soon as we have left the other person,...

16th September 2026

On a recent trip to England, I was told that I was “more patriotic” about being from Gibraltar than I was in the past.   I recognised why the comment was made.   This was someone who knew me as a teenager, knew how I yearned to get away from the Rock, saw how I loved and embraced living...

15th September 2026

Gibraltar’s decision to dynamically align with certain EU rules to secure the benefits of the UK/EU treaty was at the heart of detailed questioning in the House of Lords on Tuesday, where peers heard the agreement was a complex post-Brexit compromise aimed at keeping the frontier fluid while protecting British sovereignty. The treaty requires Gibraltar...

14th September 2026

By all accounts, the three-day music festival was a success with the public.  The final night saw ‘70s band 10cc and headliner Billy Ocean topping the bill on the main stage.  When 10cc took to the stage, the near-capacity sports hall crowd greeted them with a loud cheer. The Real Thing had just been on before them...

14th September 2026

By Kimberly Foreman     Genre: Thriller    This week’s book recommendation is perfect for fans of Freida McFadden and Mary Kubica. If You Tell a Lie is a dark and riveting story about how one bad decision can change your life forever…  Four friends, endless summers at camp, and a cruel, unthinkable prank that turns everything upside down in an instant.  Blakely, Grace,...

14th September 2026

Two UK sixth form students have become the first young people to complete a Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gold Residential Project hosted by The Nautilus Project in Gibraltar.  Emma Burt and Arabella Singleton, both Lower Sixth students at Guilford High School, spent five days working alongside The Nautilus Project’s Youth Monitors on marine conservation...

11th September 2026

I was lucky enough to mingle with the scientific community last week – and some of the world’s leading scientists at the annual Calpe Conference (celebrating 30 years) at the University of Gibraltar. It was on day three that I learnt about a new book on the Neanderthals which will be published in the UK...

9th September 2026

By Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, Leader of the GSLP    On Thursday we mark fifty-nine years since the day our forefathers went to the polls and told the  world that only we the Gibraltarians will decide the future of our Rock.  They did not vote in comfort. They voted with a dictator in Spain waiting to punish them for...

9th September 2026

The term ‘silly season’ comes from the fact journalists need to find non-political stories and other lighter issues to compensate for the lack of goings on – and normally, there are usually many – because of the lovely sunshine and people going off on holiday during the summer season. And it quickly must be said...

8th September 2026

The GASA Bathing Pavilion will remain open until September 30 after the Gibraltar Government confirmed there would be enough lifeguards and beach attendants to staff the facility safely. The pavilion had been due to close at the end of the official bathing season but will instead remain open from Monday, September 14, to Wednesday, September...

8th September 2026

The Nautilus Project marine biologist Lewis Stagnetto has confirmed that Noctiluca scintillans, a colony of microorganisms commonly known as sea sparkle, is causing the discolouration of the water from Little Bay to Rosia Bay. Mr Stagnetto took samples of the water and conducted tests on Tuesday morning, confirming it was what he and the Department...

8th September 2026

The University of Gibraltar held the official opening of its Maritime Academy Simulation Centre on Monday morning, featuring two training suites financed by industry partners Peninsula Hercules Tanker Management and Boluda Towage. Each company invested £200,000 on the simulators, which when in use are paired so that the student can see the other vessel in...

8th September 2026

A memorial tree has been planted in the garden of St Bernard’s Hospital alongside a plaque in tribute to Juan Jesus Vecino, known to many as ‘Susi’, who made history in January this year when his organs were donated in the first procedure of its kind on the Rock. Mr Vecino, 48, donated all his...

7th September 2026

With the Summer Sports and Leisure Programme now having come to an end, the Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority (GSLA) has focused its attention on highlighting the opportunities available to more senior users. The GSLA has been at the centre in recent years of driving a greater focus on sports in the latter years of...

7th September 2026

The Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority has highlighted a range of health, wellbeing, sport and physical activities available to seniors across Gibraltar in partnership with local sporting associations and community groups. At the centre of the programme is the GSLA Exercise and Seniors Recreation Morning, held every Thursday during term time at the Bayside Sports...

7th September 2026

Sixty-six young people received their Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards at a ceremony at The Convent, with one recipient receiving the Gold Award.  The ceremony was attended by parents, the Board of Trustees and the Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, who is Patron of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar, as well as Award...

7th September 2026

Rose Suissa retired on 14 August after 53 years of dedicated service to healthcare in Gibraltar. She is widely regarded as one of the cornerstone figures of the local health system from its earliest days.  Over coffee, speaking calmly despite initial nerves, she clearly recounts her long and rewarding professional journey - a life defined...

4th September 2026

A 19-year-old local man was arrested by the Royal Gibraltar Police on Friday evening on suspicion of assisting illegal immigration after a Guardia Civil vessel chased a Spanish-registered speedboat into Gibraltar’s harbour.  The incident was classed as an incursion because Spanish authorities failed to alert their Gibraltar counterparts of the chase in British waters, highlighting a failure of...