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17th November 2025

British politician and former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Sir Jeremy Hunt, discussed a life in politics including key moments such as Brexit, Ukraine war, and diplomacy with US President Donald Trump. Mr Hunt presented his book ‘Can We Be Great Again? Why a dangerous world needs Britain’ during his talk at the Gibraltar Literary Festival...

17th November 2025

This is the final instalment in a three part series written by Carl Viagas. The series was published weekly on Mondays. The recent investigation of the Cathedral roof void—brought to public attention through the important article by Dr Ryan Aquez—has opened a new chapter in Gibraltar’s understanding of its own architectural and religious history. The...

13th November 2025

The historic St Andrew’s Church is set to be refurbished following the approval of a full application by the Development and Planning Commission at Thursday’s meeting. Permission was sought for the refurbishment and redevelopment of the existing building, to convert it into a hub for multi-faith dialogue and learning, called The Rock Sanctuary, which is...

12th November 2025

The Gibraltar Heritage Trust has announced the launch of the Gibraltar Heritage Journal, Volume 31. To mark the publication, the Trust will host an evening seminar on Wednesday December 3 at the Gibraltar Garrison Library, featuring a selection of contributors to this year’s edition. This year’s journal introduces a number of new contributors and a...

12th November 2025

Lawyers for former Commissioner of Police Ian McGrail have called on the Gibraltar Government to publish the final report of the McGrail Inquiry “without further delay”.   In a statement issued on behalf of their client, law firm Charles Gomez & Co said the report had not yet been delivered to Core Participants in the Inquiry...

11th November 2025

A Gibraltarian doctor who campaigned for appropriate PPE equipment for NHS healthcare workers in the UK has published her first book. Almost six years from when Dr Meenal Viz stood outside Downing Street in protest, she has released her first book, titled The Power of Protest in Healthcare. Dr Viz made international headlines in 2020...

10th November 2025

Cancer Relief Gibraltar is inviting members of the public to take part in its annual Glowing Memories campaign, offering a way for families, friends, colleagues and carers to remember loved ones during the festive season. The recorded Glowing Memories 2025 ceremony will take place at the Alameda Gardens Open Air Theatre and will be shared...

10th November 2025

Former Deputy Editor of the Chronicle, Alice Mascarenhas, will today launch the seventh edition of Alice’s Table, comprised of columns published in this newspaper over the past year. Ms Mascarenhas will launch Alice’s Table today at BookGem where she will be signing her book from 11am to 1pm. She said it is incredible to have...

10th November 2025

This is the second in a three part series written by Carl Viagas. The series will be published weekly on Mondays. Following the wide interest in the Chronicle article of 23rd May 2025 on the Northern Defences, many readers raised questions about Gibraltar’s oldest urban area. Chief among them: Is the Villa Vieja—the area beneath...

7th November 2025

Comedian Russell Kane will perform his latest show, Hyperactive, at St Michael’s Cave tomorrow at 7pm. The multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter is known for his appearances on Channel 4, BBC and ITV programmes, including The Apprentice: You’re Fired. He said performing in Gibraltar is a unique experience, having previously toured in St...

7th November 2025

What a journey this has been! The Gibraltar Gibunco Literary Festival first arrived here in 2013. At the Gibraltar Chronicle, with then Editor Dominique Searle, we signed up to the idea of establishing a Literary Festival in Gibraltar from the moment we got to hear about it. Our support, in the first year saw our...

7th November 2025

The Gibraltar Association of Compliance Officers (GACO), in collaboration with the European Network for Compliance Officers (ENFCO), has announced a half-day conference focused on tackling the “subtle, systemic roots of corporate corruption”. The event, titled “Beyond the Checklist: Disrupting the Normalisation of Corruption in European Compliance,” which will take place on November 20, 2025, at...

6th November 2025

The Gibraltar Literary Festival will open on Monday with a week’s worth of talks and discussions from well-known international and local authors. Gibraltar Cultural Services Chief Cultural Officer Seamus Byrne has taken over the organisation of the event this year as Festival Director. Under his helm, Mr Byrne told Features Editor Gabriella Ramagge, he plans...

6th November 2025

Officials from the Small States and Territories Working Group (STWG) met in Gibraltar this week to progress work on updated guidance for proliferation financing (PF) and terrorist financing (TF). The meeting forms part of an ongoing project jointly led by Gibraltar and the Isle of Man on proliferation financing, and by Jersey on terrorist financing....

6th November 2025

In today’s edition book blogger Kimberly Foreman reviews a highly rated novel just in time to get people reading ahead of the Gibraltar Literary Festival. Genre: Historical fiction / romance / time-slip fiction To get you in the mood for the long-awaited Gibraltar Literary Festival next week, I’m bringing you a wonderful novel by the...

5th November 2025

Jose Luis Mancilla Angulo won this year’s 52nd International Art Competition with his piece titled ‘Don Quijote y Sancho Panza’. He told the Chronicle he was very grateful to win, adding that had a lot of admiration for Gibraltarian painter Gustavo Bacarisas and was familiar with his work from a museum in Seville. A resident...

5th November 2025

This year’s Purple Relay, a Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Gibraltar event, is set to take place on November 8. Unlike typical charity fun runs or walks, organisers are clear: “It’s not a fun walk, it’s not a fun run. It’s an awareness event.” Four athletes, Jerai Torres, Sean Collado, Ian Yeats and Karl Baldachino, will set...

4th November 2025

The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has given notice of a motion proposing the appointment of Nicholas Guerrero as the next Mayor and Andrea Simpson as Deputy Mayor to be brought before Parliament at its next meeting. The motion proposes that the appointment will be in effect from Tuesday, December 16, 2025. Mr Picardo said: “Andrea...

4th November 2025

A few years ago, I started following a sports writer from The Telegraph on X (formerly known as Twitter), after one of her articles caught my attention. Molly McElwee is an award-winning journalist who specialises in tennis, football, and women’s sports. She’s a sharp and articulate writer whose intelligence shines through her work — always...

3rd November 2025

Gibraltar Cultural Services is highlighting its writing initiative in a celebration of literature during the Gibraltar Literary Festival. Earlier this year Sheridan Povedano was selected for the GCS Writing Initiative and Mentorship Programme. The programme, part of GCS’ development drive, aims to cultivate talent within the literary field, providing young writers with invaluable opportunities and...

1st November 2025

Local author Scott Alcroft has today released his eighth book, 20 Quid and a Rucksack, inspired by his move from Scotland to Spain and Gibraltar more than seven years ago. Mr Alcroft, who works in Gibraltar’s gaming industry, said the title reflects his state when he left Scotland to start a new life abroad following...

31st October 2025

The Royal British Legion Gibraltar Branch will hold its annual Poppy Appeal on Friday, November 7, with collection points set up at various locations across the Rock. The campaign is the Legion’s largest annual fundraiser, held each November during the period of Remembrance. The appeal supports members of the Armed Forces community, with serving personnel...

31st October 2025

I have known these stars of Olde Tyme dancing on the Rock – Ana Maria and Curro Morro – well, like forever. They live in my area of town – and I often see them, and we chat or say hello, and we move on to wherever we are going. As a journalist I wouldn’t...

28th October 2025

The Gibraltar Health Authority, in partnership with Public Health Gibraltar, has launched a campaign to encourage smokers to stop smoking, highlighting the immediate and long-term health benefits of quitting. The initiative is part of a wider effort by the GHA to reduce tobacco use under the message: “If you give up smoking today you will...

28th October 2025

The Royal Gibraltar Regiment hosted an Insight Weekend at Devil’s Tower Camp from October 17 to 19, welcoming 25 participants interested in learning more about military life and the Regiment’s operational capabilities. The 48-hour event began on Friday afternoon and concluded on Sunday, with attendees accommodated within the camp and provided with meals throughout the...

27th October 2025

Spain’s Police Nacional has launched an investigation into the assault and shooting of a 26-year-old man in the early hours of Monday morning in the El Zabal area of La Línea de la Concepción. The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the neck and was taken to La Línea University Hospital, according to Spanish press...

27th October 2025

Royal Family life is always a world many would like a glimpse of, one person who knows only too well what goes on behind the castle and palace walls is former Royal Butler Grant Harrold. He is one of the guest speakers at this year’s Gibraltar Literary Festival and his talk at the Garrison Library...

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...