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21st August 2025

Hugs, tears of joy, squeals of delight and pats on the back filled the playground at Prior Park as the young students received their GCSE results on Thursday morning. The celebratory atmosphere was warranted as the school achieved a 99.7% pass rate, with 91.4% of students achieving grades 9-4 and 52% achieving grades 7-9, including...

21st August 2025

Bayside and Westside Schools and the Gibraltar College received their GCSE and Level 2 results on Thursday. A total of 672 grades at levels 9, 8 and 7 were obtained from the two secondary schools, with 336 at Bayside and 336 at Westside. Pupils achieved 3,110 grades from a possible 3,140, representing a pass rate...

21st August 2025

By Neve Clinton The Pedal Ready organisation recently held Level 1 Cycling Proficiency courses at the Bayside and Westside podium as part of the GSLA Summer Programme, offering children a two-hour session of cycle safety and education. The course, which is also available year-round, is geared for 11-year-olds but open to anyone who can ride...

20th August 2025

By Gabriella Ramagge With weight loss jabs prevalent globally, the GHA’s Public Health Director has highlighted concerns over the need for behavioural lifestyle support to avoid ‘yo-yo’ diet culture. Last summer, Public Health Director Dr Helen Carter researched GHA statistics and found that just 20% of Gibraltar’s population was at a healthy weight as she...

19th August 2025

A young man whose dangerous driving caused the death of his cousin in a car crash on Line Wall Road in 2023 was jailed for five years and eight months by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.  Brandon Camilleri, 21, had pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. He also admitted a second count of...

18th August 2025

By Neve Clinton Julia Horne took home the title of Miss Gibraltar this year, on a night celebrating the pageant’s 60th anniversary. For her though, the event represented something even more special, her connection with her sister, who sadly lost her battle to cancer at the age of 19. “This crown is for us,” Miss...

18th August 2025

La Linea’s Santa Barbara beach was closed on Sunday after six poisonous ‘blue dragons’ were found washed up on the shore.  The sightings prompted authorities in Gibraltar to issue an alert to raise awareness and urge bathers to exercise caution.   Blue dragons are sea slugs that normally live on the open sea, where they...

17th August 2025

Thanks to a donation from a local family who wish to remain anonymous, a school in Sierra Leone was the recipient of Action4School’s water well No.111. According to the charity’s founder, Jimmy Bruzon, the family had always wanted to contribute something that would last and make a difference to children in Africa. The water well...

15th August 2025

Turnbull’s Lane – an area of great activity not that very long ago – where many families lived in a patio environment and which today we find rundown, derelict, and dormant. A walk in the area makes it hard to imagine that this was once a busy hive and thriving part of town with a...

14th August 2025

Head teacher of Gibraltar College of Further Education, Daniel Benrimoj, said he was proud of the success of all of his students as they received their A level results on Thursday morning, highlighting vocational opportunities opened up by new BTEC courses. That included the first cohort of a two-year BTEC in Acting, which has performed...

14th August 2025

The first fully coeducational cohort from Bayside and Westside received their A Level results by email but came into the school to share their results and the plans for the future with each other and their teachers. Head teacher of Bayside, Gaynor Lester, said the morning was spent checking on students’ first and second choice...

13th August 2025

By Neve Clinton The Gibraltar Esports and Video Gaming Association (GEVGA) recently held its ‘Introduction to Esports’ Summer Camp at the Europa Sports Complex, aiming to foster a positive educational and social environment through play. During the week the 10 to 15 year-olds completed workshops which consisted of half an hour of learning and around...

13th August 2025

Gibraltar Cultural Services, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Cultural Awards, which celebrate the best of Gibraltar’s arts and culture by recognising potential, ability, talent and achievements across the community. The Cultural Awards Board, made up of the Fabian Vinet, Paula Latin, Ernest Gomez, Suyenne Perez Catania...

13th August 2025

The Minister for Health and Care, Gemma Arias-Vasquez, has visited Mount Alvernia to view work carried out by apprentices from the Gibraltar Training Centre. The apprentices have been painting, brightening communal areas, and displaying historic photographs of Gibraltar to help make the facility more welcoming for residents and visitors. During her visit, Ms Arias-Vasquez met...

12th August 2025

Local artist Karl Ullger will be exhibiting his works in Peckham, London as part of international artist collective Cane-Yo which opens on Thursday for four days. The exhibition called We met on the internet features over 30 artists and will be held in Copeland Park Gallery. The exhibition is being curated by artists and organisers,...

11th August 2025

by Stephen Ignacio There are very few opportunities in which you can get the impressions of a squad. However, this week, by pure chance, that opportunity came about for what is probably the most important event in sport to be hosted on the Rock this year. Gibraltar Netball’s Under-21s will be participating in the World...

8th August 2025

Most of us when looking back on our summers whilst growing up will have memory after memory of long hot summer days spent on the beach. For many of us, the memory of not just the beach but also the spot where our beach umbrella found its hole and always seemed to find its way...

6th August 2025

Calypso Tours has unveiled a new addition to its local charity bus fleet, featuring a design aimed at raising awareness of heart health in support of the Gibraltar Cardiac Association. The newly wrapped bus carries the message “Nothing beats a healthy heart” and is intended to encourage members of the community to prioritise cardiovascular wellbeing....

5th August 2025

By MJ Corrales Diving into La Línea’s municipal archive is to journey into the past through documents that explain the life of the city and its relationship with Gibraltar and the border. As the chief archivist, José Martínez, says, “this archive is unique, because it contains documents that are only here because of the existence...

5th August 2025

A colleague of mine recently said he uses AI every night in his attempt to lose the post-wedding weight he gained in recent months. In his prompts, he tells the artificial intelligence the contents of his fridge to find out what to make for dinner and for lunch the next day to reach his macronutrient...

1st August 2025

Conservative MP and former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Sir Jeremy Hunt, has been confirmed as the third headliner for this year’s Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival, the Gibraltar Cultural Services announced on Wednesday on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He will appear ‘In Conversation With’ the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, to discuss his...

1st August 2025

Louis Baldachino has marked 10 years since he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, underscoring a message for cancer patients to keep going through mental strength and hope. Over the past 10 years, Mr Baldachino, now 68 years old, has seen his two sons and daughter, now in their 20s and 30s, grow up and achieve...

1st August 2025

By James Neish  When I returned back home to Gibraltar to take up the role of Chief Executive at GBC in October 2022, I came with a very clear goal: to help raise the standard of broadcasting in our community.  It’s not for me to say if we have been successful.  That’s for you as our viewers and listeners...

30th July 2025

Youth volunteers from The Nautilus Project have removed more than 3.5 tonnes of invasive seaweed from beaches around Gibraltar over the past fortnight, in a clean-up effort coordinated in response to large quantities of the algae washing ashore. Their work was in tandem to a Government clean-up effort that cleared a further 10 tonnes of...

30th July 2025

Gibraltar’s competitive sports season may be on pause (at least for the majority of sports associations), but its role as an integral part of Gibraltar’s social fabric continues strongly this summer. Away from the competitive nature of organised sport, the GSLA Summer Sports Programme offers a different perspective on youth involvement in our community. The...

28th July 2025

12-year-old local boy Arya Arun has recently published his debut book Potato Man: The Living Potato Superhero. Arya was inspired to create the character while dining at a restaurant with his family, where a buffet sparked his imagination. His favourite food offered was a jacket potato and, as a “foodie”, he decided to write about...

21st July 2025

By Maria Jesus Corrales The Museo Cruz Herrera in La Línea will be celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2026 and, to mark that milestone, director Mercedes Corbacho has set the institution the task of placing its namesake, José Cruz Herrera, on the map. “He is already well known here,” she said of the greatest artist...

21st July 2025

Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, the Governor of Gibraltar and Commander in Chief, knows about complicated negotiations.  Before arriving on the Rock in June last year, he was the UK’s military representative to NATO and the EU, working in Brussels with both the UK delegation to NATO and the UK mission to the EU.  It...

18th July 2025

The issues raised in the Principal Auditor’s 2018/19 report are not new and reflect an “opaque” approach to scrutiny by the Gibraltar Government that does nothing to dispel a “perception of political patronage and financial abuse”, Keith Azopardi, the Leader of the Opposition, said this week.  In an interview with the Chronicle conducted on Wednesday,...

18th July 2025

By Ivy Soanes ‘Llanito History Doctor’ Ryan Asquez has said what inspires him to continue posting online is the fact that young people are learning and interested in his stories. Dr Asquez focuses on local stories from different areas of Gibraltar’s history including ghost stories, social history and folklore. For Dr Asquez his interest in history...