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27th October 2025

Four of Gibraltar’s sprinters this past week took a major step towards providing athletics with a lifeline for the future. Three of them, former sprinters who have now hung up their spikes, and a fourth who continues to represent Gibraltar, returned from Manchester this weekend after completing a coaching course that will allow them to...

26th October 2025

American Charles Wilson, the son of a US Naval Officer a Naval Attache to Gibraltar and former resident of Gibraltar, brimmed with nostalgia as he shared his memories of growing up on the Rock in the 1950s with the Chronicle. In doing so he painted a colourful picture of family life, British and American traditions,...

24th October 2025

Alice Mascarenhas launched her book ‘Palabras al Viento’ honouring her late father, Gibraltarian broadcaster and journalist Manolo Mascarenhas, at Grand Battery House on Thursday evening. Ms Mascarenhas, a former Deputy Editor of this newspaper, penned the book featuring a collection of her father’s works and named after his well-known 1960s broadcasts ‘Palabras al Viento’ on...

24th October 2025

A plan to install vertical wind turbines in the Lathbury Sports Complex has been filed with the Town Planner and seeks to reduce Gibraltar’s reliance on traditional energy sources while minimising the impact on local wildlife and the environment. The project is at a very early stage but the man behind it, Nicholas Miller from...

24th October 2025

One event this week has been in the making for most of my life. A hugely important stand out moment in my personal life – one I always knew would one day come. It saw another chapter of my life – both personal and professional – come to an end as I carefully chose its...

23rd October 2025

The Minister for Financial Services and Gaming, Nigel Feetham, hosted a high-profile event at the Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall on Wednesday as part of Gibraltar Finance’s ongoing efforts to promote the Gibraltar’s strengths in investment management and private client services.  In opening the funds-focused breakfast event, Mr Feetham delivered a welcoming address highlighting...

23rd October 2025

Rebecca Fa will be sharing her most recent publication ‘Me Acuerdo: Memories of Gibraltar’s Old Town’ a book which is a collection of memories. Rebecca told Features Editor Gabriella Ramagge about her book which records Gibraltar’s living memory and her upcoming workshop as part in this year’s Gibraltar Literary Festival schools programme. What can the...

22nd October 2025

The future UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar will create economic opportunities that go beyond headline provisions on border fluidity, offering potential that only investors and business leaders may fully recognise, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Tuesday. Speaking during a fireside chat at the inaugural Gibraltar Business Conference in London’s OXO Tower, Mr Picardo described the...

22nd October 2025

Molly McElwee will be sharing her career in journalism and book ‘Building Champions: Paths to Success in Women’s Tennis’ during her hour-long talk at the Gibraltar Literary Festival. Molly told Features Editor Gabriella Ramagge about sharing women’s stories focusing on sport. Molly will also be taking part in this year’s Literary Festival schools programme. What...

22nd October 2025

Yes, visiting the cinema is still a trend. I think the two Leisure Cinemas are made good use of (although not as much as in the past), but when a top film is released and it receives good reviews, the populace flocks to the cinema and the film runs for a number of days. So...

21st October 2025

Theatre Makers did themselves proud with their closed frontier years production ‘In the Still of the Night’. It was a play to mark the 40th anniversary of the frontier reopening. The play was on for three nights last week at the Spitfire Hall which had its seating and orientation adjusted to offer a more intimate...

21st October 2025

On Valentine’s Day 2025 I was sent a random Facebook message from Vanessa Adambery. Just like many people in Gibraltar I do not ‘know’ Vanessa, but I knew who she was and would smile and say hello if ever I saw her anywhere. I am sure we all have acquaintances like this, people we pass...

20th October 2025

Karim Vatvani shares his most recent publication, Marathon Vat, a story promoting multiculturalism and navigating differences in language barriers and cultures to help each other globally. Karim told Chronicle Reporter Eyleen Gomez about his passion for telling stories via children’s books. Karim will be taking part in this year’s Gibraltar Literary Festival school programme. Q:Marathon...

19th October 2025

By David Revagliatte It started with a quick online search. I was trying to find where exactly my next meeting was on Main Street and turned to Google Street View to check the building’s exterior. I found the address easily enough, but what caught my attention wasn’t the office itself. It was the virtual street...

17th October 2025

After a short break – I decided to once again delve into the series of the Gibraltar Directory and Guide Books. They are always very popular with our readers – and every time I do this, even though I have dipped into them a great deal and taken in a lot – which I have...

17th October 2025

The 10th anniversary of the Gibraltar War Memorial was commemorated on October 15 with a service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the UK’s national centre of remembrance. The the Gibraltar War Memorial, located near the entrance to the Mediterranean section of the Arboretum and just a few hundred yards from the UK’s...

16th October 2025

Cancer Research UK Gibraltar branch has reached a fundraising milestone of £2m collected over the past 58 years. The charity has been fundraising for decades and this year’s Walk for Life raised around £140,000 breaking the record across the UK. For Chairperson Annette Goodman, the milestone marks a great success for past and present members...

16th October 2025

Young people from across Gibraltar came together for the Youth Symposium held on Tuesday, at the John Mackintosh Hall, where discussions focused on education, volunteering, politics and community safety. The Minister for Youth, Christian Santos, led the event, which brought together students, youth service users and young volunteers from NGOs to share ideas on how...

15th October 2025

“Life’s hard. No one ever said it was easy,” said Jamie Burnett, an organiser behind an endurance event being held in Ocean Village on International Men’s Day. The event will take place from 1pm on November 18 to 1pm on November 19, and participants will take turns carrying weighted bags, either 30kg, 25kg, or 10kg...

14th October 2025

“Life was so much simpler when we were kids” is something I often hear friends who are parents say as we look back at our childhoods. Born in the mid-80s to early 90s, all of us have been feeling nostalgic for a time that no longer exists and cannot be recreated. Most of us remember...

13th October 2025

The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, was invited by the Commanding Officer of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment to take the salute during the Regiment’s exercise of the Freedom of the City of Gibraltar. The parade brought together serving soldiers, veterans, families and members of the public to celebrate the Regiment’s service to Gibraltar. Mr Picardo said...

13th October 2025

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has designated senior GBC journalist Jonathan Scott as Gibraltar’s UK Representative and Head of Gibraltar House in London.  Mr Scott, who has worked at GBC for nearly 20 years, will take up the role in the coming weeks.   The post was previously held by Dominique Searle, who stepped down earlier this...

10th October 2025

This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week. To mark this, the Dyslexia Support Group Gibraltar has written three articles to raise awareness. In today’s edition, the final instalment in this series looks at how Dyslexia can shape someone’s life. By Rob Chandler I am now 65 years old and society says that at this age, I...

9th October 2025

Healthcare must evolve and develop with global trends “or it goes backwards”, the GHA’s outgoing Director General, Kevin McGee, said, as he praised the organisation he has led for the past two years and said it “stands with the very best”.  Mr McGee, who is due to step down from the post in the coming...

9th October 2025

Digital safety expert Sue Atkins has warned parents and educators in Gibraltar about the growing dangers of excessive screen time for children, highlighting its impact on mental health, self-esteem and family life. Speaking at one of a number events organised by GibSams and the Department of Education this week for Gibraltar Schools Mental Health Festival,...

8th October 2025

Next month the Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival will feature prominent prolific authors from home and abroad, in a week-long event celebrating literature. For the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Christian Santos, the Festival brings together two of his key portfolios and his own love for reading. Mr Santos said this year’s festival is set to...

7th October 2025

The GHA has settled for £10.57m in a claim brought by the mother of a newborn baby who suffered a severe brain injury after being discharged from St Bernard’s Hospital. The claim centres around the treatment received by the baby at St Bernard’s Hospital over a decade ago. At the time the infant, identified as...

7th October 2025

This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week Gibraltar. To mark this the Dyslexia Support Group has written three articles to raise awareness. Today’s edition looks how Dyslexia can shape someone’s life. By Veronica Clancy-Grubb This dyslexia week, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about something very personal to me—dyslexia. For those who don’t know...

1st October 2025

Poetry Review An evening of poetry about life experiences and more was held at Bosom Buddies’ poetry night. It was a combination of the different arts that abound so vibrantly on this Rock – I just don’t tire of the amount of times I highlight the variety of creative interests we have amongst those keen...

30th September 2025

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has made a complaint to the Royal Gibraltar Police in respect of allegedly “defamatory and threatening” videos published on social media by an “apparently aggrieved individual”, No.6 Convent Place said on Tuesday. The Gibraltar Government said the videos contain “actionable libels as well as criminal libels” under the Defamation Act. It...