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22nd January 2026

Government ministers voiced fulsome support for the Chief Minister on Wednesday night as Parliament debated a ‘no confidence’ motion tabled by the Opposition.  The GSD had for months called on ministers to distance themselves from Fabian Picardo, first over his handling of the debate on the former Principal Auditor and more recently following the findings...

22nd January 2026

A serving Royal Gibraltar Police officer and a former police officer had misconduct charges withdrawn in the Supreme Court on Thursday, as they admitted to lesser offences relating to data breaches of police material. Serving police officer Sean Picton, 37, and former police officer, Anthony Bolaños, 38, pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully obtaining and...

21st January 2026

The Fine Arts Association’s annual event No Cuesta d’Enero opened this week with a performance by The Movement Collective. The Movement Collective performed a snippet of the ‘Memory Project 2’, which was themed on dementia and Alzheimer’s. Actress Carol Trinidad portrayed Margaret who is losing her memory. Claire Trinidad, Carol’s daughter, acted as Margaret’s younger...

21st January 2026

Many years ago, I produced and presented a television series on GBC called ‘I was There’ where I chatted to people who had been witness to some of the most important happenings in the Rock’s history – the 1967 Referendum, the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono – just to mention two. Events and...

21st January 2026

There were two starkly competing narratives in Parliament on Tuesday about what Gibraltar should take from Sir Peter Openshaw’s findings in the McGrail Inquiry report and what should happen next.  The controversy that has played out in public exchanges since the report’s publication on December 23 came into sharp focus during a debate on a...

20th January 2026

“What are you reading right now?” is an inevitable question when I meet with some of my closest friends on a regular basis. All of us will pull out our phones, Kindles or books from our handbag and exchange titles and let the others read the blurbs on the back of the book to keep...

20th January 2026

Special Olympics Gibraltar (SOG) successfully organised a pioneering Unified Schools Training Seminar on January 14, bringing together nearly all primary, middle and senior school Physical Education teachers. The full-day event, held at the Sunborn Hotel, marked a significant step forward in advancing inclusion in schools and promoting the Special Olympics Global Coalition for Inclusion in...

18th January 2026

The 60th anniversary of the Gibraltar Disability Society will be marked lighting Moorish Castle red and white this week. ORIGINS OF THE GIBRALTAR DISABILITY SOCIETY The grass roots of the Gibraltar Disability Society began in 1966 when a small group of parents came together to seek inclusion and support for their children with disabilities. Today...

18th January 2026

I’ve just finished my latest bedside read, great five-pages-and-snooze stuff, in a small edition to avoid being assaulted by the tome as I doze. It was Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass*. Suddenly, Alice’s stories seem more coherent than many of the events that have been floating past us on our screens...

15th January 2026

Genre: Mystery / suspense / thriller In today’s edition book blogger Kimberly Foreman reviews a bestselling suspenseful thriller mystery novel called The Only Survivors I’m back this week with another smashing mystery novel—The Only Survivors by prolific author Megan Miranda. I read this one just before Christmas and just had to add it to my...

14th January 2026

Every three years, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Association holds the International Gold Event (IGE) and Forum. This year, the events took place in Lagos, Nigeria, marking the first time that both have been held concurrently. The IGE is an exceptional international personal development opportunity for future leaders. It is open to Gold Award...

13th January 2026

Local man Juan Jesus Vecino, known to many as “Susi”, not only made history last Friday but changed the lives of others when his organs were donated in the first procedure of its kind on the Rock. Mr Vecino, 48, donated all his organs, his sister Maria Vecino Ramos told the Chronicle. The family, dealing...

13th January 2026

The Mayor, Nicholas Guerrero, has invited members of the public to submit nominations for the 2026 Mayor’s Awards, which are due to be conferred in March. The awards, now a regular part of Gibraltar’s civic calendar, recognise individuals who have made a significant contribution to the community. Originally created as a lifesaving award for members...

13th January 2026

School Years 11-13 Category Winner “Behind the Scenes” By Jude James Everard The rain pours, Filling the craters. The shrapnel sinks, Whilst the bodies buoy. And the poor fellow, With a hole where his eye was, With his blood stained skin, With his guts exposed, Floats there supposedly dead. No one checks, No one bats...

13th January 2026

With the advent of a brand new year – 2026, I’m reminded of how things have changed in terms of `out of the home celebrations,’ during Christmas and the New Year. We always had `live’ bands made up of four, five or even six individuals performing at the very popular yuletide venues of the Calpe,...

9th January 2026

Award-winning Gibraltarian filmmaker Ian Sciacaluga recently held the UK premiere of his film, HIDE, in Dorking Halls, Surrey. The director told the Chronicle that the independent psycho drama was conceived as an exploration of dreams, inner lives and the healing potential of creativity, which was developed over six years on a shoestring budget with a...

9th January 2026

The “historic” UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar was an example of what can be achieved through diplomacy focused on agreement over confrontation, Jose Manuel Albares, Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said on Thursday.  Mr Albares was addressing the opening session of a conference in Madrid that brought together all of Spain’s ambassadors from countries across the...

8th January 2026

Here we go again. Another New Year – 2026. How many New Year resolutions have you signed up for this year? Here at Alice’s Table, we have two; to continue our stories and to keep you both informed and entertained. And now with the festive season over it is once again down to serious business....

7th January 2026

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said he was “setting a clear deadline” to implement the recommendations made in the McGrail Inquiry report by Sir Peter Openshaw, the retired UK judge who chaired the public inquiry. In a New Year message broadcast on GBC on Wednesday night, Mr Picardo said the McGrail Inquiry report’s recommendations relating to...

6th January 2026

Lauren Farmer is spearheading an initiative to raise awareness and improve facilities for individuals with invisible disabilities, particularly those with stoma bags and inflammatory bowel conditions. She has also set up IBD Awareness Gibraltar, a small charity focused on supporting anyone living with Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis or other inflammatory bowel diseases. “These conditions can be...

6th January 2026

The festive period is over, Christmas trees are being put away and soon decorative lights will be removed from Main Street. Most of us have spent too much, eaten too much and drank too much in the run-up to the holiday period. After busy shopping days and the merriment of the Cavalcade parade, the town...

5th January 2026

Gibraltar celebrated the Three Kings Cavalcade on Monday evening, with the downpour over the weekend not dampening the spirits of those volunteers who spent the festive break working on their floats.  The Cavalcade was led by the Three Kings, namely Dylan Ferrar as Melchior, Gerry Martinez as Gasper and Simon Hamdane as Balthazar.  The crowds...

5th January 2026

By Nick Cruz As I follow the Principal Auditors Report 1 and 2, and the McGrail Report, I ask myself this simple question. Does a government that has so clearly devalued the trust of its electorate really have any democratic legitimacy left? If trust was a currency, they now are well into the red. So,...

5th January 2026

Dr Joseph Garcia, the Deputy Chief Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party, said 2026 would be marked by the signing, ratification and implementation of a UK/EU treaty for Gibraltar, without which the Rock’s future could have been “cold and bleak”.  In a New Year message, Dr Garcia said should look at the year ahead...

4th January 2026

By Leah Pou Prior Park School recently hosted its annual Winter Arts Showcase, featuring a wide range of musical performances, displays of student art and photography, and the opportunity to try out computer games created by the school’s Computer Science students. Throughout the evening, the audience enjoyed a range of musical performances, including a clarinet...

30th December 2025

Many will say it will be much more of the same – 2025 has ended and a new one is about to dawn on us. Yes, Christmas wrapping paper strewn all over the lounge (by now picked up and disposed of, I would hope), with the odd present still in its colourful packaging under the...

23rd December 2025

The McGrail Inquiry report raised “serious issues which must be addressed”, the Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, said in a statement on Tuesday, as he welcomed its publication. In the statement, Sir Ben said the focus must now be on collaboration to improving Gibraltar’s public institutions and strengthening public trust in them. “The Governor...

23rd December 2025

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo attempted “grossly improper” interference in a police investigation in which Hassans senior partner James Levy, his friend and mentor, was a suspect, Sir Peter Openshaw, the chairman of the McGrail Inquiry, found in his long-awaited report published today. Sir Peter, a retired UK High Court judge, found there was no actual...

23rd December 2025

A few years ago I made it my mission to watch as many Christmas movies as I could. At the time I watched around two movies a day. Some of them were old favourites, others modern classics, and some I never thought to revisit again because they were just so bad. At the time I...

23rd December 2025

A Christmas message by Dean of Gibraltar Canon Ian Tarrant. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Exactly 50 years ago, the Christmas no.1 record in the UK was ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by the group, Queen. It was an unusually long single with a pastiche of musical styles, and words reminiscent of the 19th...