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11th August 2026

By DM Parody When I told my brother we were spending our summer holiday in Cancún, his response was immediate.  "That's a long way for a beach holiday."  As it turned out, the beaches were the last thing on our minds. Within two days of arriving, we had bumped into four other Gibraltarian families who...

11th August 2026

Mrs Gibraltar contestant No.5, Roxana Vilerio, is proud of herself taking part in the competition. She believes that this pageant has helped her rediscover herself, describing it as an experience that builds confidence, independence and lasting friendships.  This is the second time she has entered the contest, having first competed in 2023.  "It was an incredible experience," she said.  Roxana...

11th August 2026

Generous Hearts is supporting a Ceuta charity led by Sabah Hamed, whose home has become a refuge for minors, pregnant women and other vulnerable migrants following the arrival of tens of thousands of people in the Spanish city.  Ms Hamed, who leads the Asociación de Menores y Barrios, told the Chronicle that she and volunteers...

6th August 2026

A group of 10 children spent a week exploring Gibraltar’s heritage during the Heritage Trust’s summer camp, learning about historic sites while connecting the stories they heard with their own family histories.  The camp is the second summer programme organised by the Heritage Trust, alongside another held during the mid-term break.  The chief executive officer at the Heritage Trust, Claire Montado, said...

5th August 2026

Young children and babies with families were among the 60,000 who entered Ceuta from Morocco last week.   Dripping wet and shivering, many arrived on the shores of the Spanish enclave with the promise of a better life only to be repatriated by the authorities the following day.   News reports earlier this week stated some 88...

4th August 2026

Children attending an art camp last week ran by Geraldine Martinez and held at Gibraltar Artist Studio designed their own imaginative villages, that started by learning the building blocks of drawing and painting while creating communities filled with various characters.   The workshops focus on simple shapes, foreground and background, and the use of scale to...

4th August 2026

By Reuben Carruthers (School Years 8 to 10, winner) The cold always woke me before the guards did.  It crept through my clothes and into my bones, making it impossible to ignore the miserable place I was in. The ground was rock solid beneath my boots, and the sky was still dark. The sun didn’t seem to...

4th August 2026

Children embarked on an imaginative journey of pirates, explorers and sea voyages during a themed storytelling session at the John Mackintosh Hall Library on July 28.  The activity, titled Pirates and Explorers, welcomed children aged three to seven for a morning of adventure-themed stories designed to encourage a love of reading and spark their imaginations.  Young listeners were...

3rd August 2026

Throughout your life I’ve found that memories escape your grasp, they run beneath you like an unending road, a shadow that always seems to trail you. No matter how hard you cling on to the old you, the friend you mourn and all the fading emotions we carry around with ourselves like extra baggage, you...

31st July 2026

The Environmental Agency and Public Health Gibraltar have issued their annual advice on preventing mosquito bites and announced a new larvicidal treatment programme with the Technical Services Department. Mosquito activity increases during the warmer months and, while most species found locally are nuisance-biters, they can still cause discomfort and secondary infections. The two species most...

31st July 2026

The Gibraltar Honours Board has invited nominations for state awards to recognise people who have made an exceptional contribution to Gibraltar’s wellbeing, achievements or reputation. The board, chaired by the Governor, will meet in October 2026 to consider nominations for The King’s Birthday Honours List 2027 and the Gibraltar Award. Nominations may be submitted by...

31st July 2026

This article was first published on Thursday July 30 but is being updated.   Thousands of migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, overwhelming police and emergency services after swimming around the breakwater at the Tarajal border and entering on foot. Estimates from Ceuta authorities on Friday suggested as many as 60,000 people had entered...

31st July 2026

The Gibraltar Government has expressed its solidarity with the people of Ceuta amid a migration crisis in the city, while reassuring the public that there is presently no cause for alarm in Gibraltar. No.6 Convent Place was reacting after tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta from Morocco, overwhelming police and emergency services after...

30th July 2026

Stylos Dance Studios returned from the Dance World Cup 2026 with three World Championship titles and a total of 12 World Championship medals, helping Gibraltar secure an impressive 18th place in the overall country rankings.  Competing in Dublin over 11 days, against 11,500 dancers from 60 countries, Stylos represented Gibraltar with 31 dancers performing 52 routines across four simultaneous competition stages. ...

30th July 2026

The Gibraltar treaty offered a “historic opportunity” for Spain and the UK to further deepen bilateral relations that were already “at their best moment”, Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, said after meeting his UK counterpart this week. Newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband travelled to Madrid on Wednesday evening where he...

30th July 2026

By Rob Freeman and Ben Mitchell, Press Association  The mother of a sailor missing for 40 years has called on the man she believes responsible for his disappearance to reveal what happened to her son.  Simon Parkes, from Bristol, was last seen in December 1986 when the Royal Navy ship he was serving on, HMS...

27th July 2026

By Anahita Hossein-Pour and Ben Mitchell, Press Association A former Royal Navy petty officer jailed for life for the murder of two young men has been found guilty of sexually assaulting four males, including a 14-year-old boy in the 1990s, two of whom he had considered killing. Allan Grimson was sentenced in 2001 for the murders of...

27th July 2026

A new public art trail, called Jump Around Gib, featuring a series of brightly painted Barbary macaque sculptures has been unveiled across Gibraltar, following a year-long community project led by The Growing Artists Hub. The ten macaques have been named after real Barbary macaques living on the Rock. Inspired by similar public art trails in...

27th July 2026

A full planning application has been filed with the Town Planner by Recycle.gi for the construction of the first phase of a waste treatment facility at 4-4a Europa Advance Road.  A design statement, prepared by Arc Design Ltd and filed with the application, said the proposed site previously formed part of Gibraltar’s existing waste management...

27th July 2026

After several days of disruption and delays for commercial freight at the border, there were signs last Friday that business was settling into the requirements of the new customs regime that came into effect on July 15. Prior to the UK/EU treaty coming into provisional implementation, the commercial gate would see anywhere between 230 and...

26th July 2026

Ten years after giving his first lunchtime talk on “sharks versus dolphins”, founder of The Nautilus Project Lewis Stagnetto says the leap from office job to full time environmental work has “absolutely” been worth the sacrifice. But such is its success, the charity is now in “desperate” need of a dedicated field centre to meet...

24th July 2026

Glasgow 2026 Media - The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games opened in spectacular style as The King and The Queen took a cue from the Doctor by emerging into The Hydro from the TARDIS. While few of the thrilled Glasgow crowd need a time machine to recall the past visit of the Games to their city,...

24th July 2026

An application has been filed with the Town Planner for the refurbishment of Sir Joshua Hassan House on Secretary’s Lane to create a new public service hub for the Community Mental Health Team, the Ombudsman and the Citizens Advice Bureau. A Design and Access Statement, prepared by Gamma Architects and filed on behalf of the...

23rd July 2026

The sixteen-strong Team Gibraltar paraded behind the Gibraltar flag at the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. The opening ceremony, which saw the King and Queen emerge from inside the TARDIS at the start of the event, featured all 74 participating nations parading behind their flags one by one. Breaking with tradition, the...

23rd July 2026

British artist Andrew Carnie has brought two unusual works to the Traces of Humanity exhibition in Gibraltar, using pollen and mosquitoes to explore the human immune system and the relationship between art and science. Carnie, an academic at Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, is exhibiting Sneeze, sternutation, circumstance (2016), a pollen-based...

23rd July 2026

By Stuart Green A couple of weeks ago, I spent many hours walking along canal towpaths in central France. On these walks, all I could hear was a mixture of birdsong and the croaking of frogs. And, apart from the trees lining the towpath, all I could see were the surrounding fields of bright sunflowers...

21st July 2026

Victoria Makin, a British textile designer and illustrator with a background in high‑street fashion, recently moved to Gibraltar and brought her richly layered silk paintings, luxury cushions, and interior artwork. Her colourful, handcrafted designs focus on originality, quality, and craftsmanship, and her latest collection is currently displayed at the Arts and Crafts Shop in Casemates...

21st July 2026

“Isabelita me llamo yo, yo soy la hija de un pescado….”, the song drifted through the open window, along with the various alternatives as to who Isabelita’s father might have been! Stretching on tippy-toes to catch the banter from the patio below, I’d hear their comments then run and repeat these to my grandmother, before...

21st July 2026

The Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, said the UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar had allowed all parties to “agree to disagree” on sovereignty, setting the issue aside in favour of a “very pragmatic” agreement focused on practical benefits for communities on both sides of the border. Speaking to the Chronicle two days after immigration controls...

21st July 2026

As the old saying goes, never mix sport with politics, but when it comes to the FIFA World Cup the exact reverse sentiment seems to be the order of the day. In fact, bring on the politicians and give them a podium of their own to pontificate from. If you thought Qatar 2022 was controversial...