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20th August 2024

Oxford University cadets recently took part in extensive exercise in Gibraltar, which aimed to attract young students into the army. The two-week programme called Exercise Barbary Warrior saw students from Oxford University’s Officer Training Corps (UOTC), as well as some students from Northern Ireland, Southampton, Exeter, and London, take part. The aim of the initiative...

20th August 2024

Like many Gibraltarians, I have very good memories of spending my summers on the beach. I wish I could feel that sense of time again, where July and August stretched out forever in the daily rhythm of picking up la sombrilla, la nevera, folding chairs for each adult and a couple of other bags and...

19th August 2024

Three authors, Guillem Balague, Nedum Onuoha and Louisa Treger have been confirmed for this year's Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival.  The Gibraltar Tourist Board has announced the authors on Monday, and they will join Sir Graham Brady, Asad Qureshi, Deb Bunt and Peter Berry.  The Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival will take place from November 11 to...

17th August 2024

Annie Risso and her team of dedicated volunteers in the years after the first European Special Olympic Games, in which a team from Gibraltar participated in an international event for the first time, made Special Olympics Gibraltar a household name. The hero’s welcome the team received in 1985 with three silver medals under their belt...

16th August 2024

Local researcher Dr Alex Menez is studying the growing population of molluscs around the shores of the Gorham’s Cave Complex as part of conservation work in the area. Dr Menez is the Senior Scientific and Conservation Officer at the Gibraltar National Museum and has been going to the Complex since the 1980s when the Gibraltar...

16th August 2024

By Charles Durante The title of this article may seem strange and enigmatic, but in fact, it just means ‘Bavarian songs or poems from Bavaria.’ Burana is the Latin for the monastery of Benediktheuern in Upper Bavaria, founded in the eighth century, where the original thirteenth century manuscript was kept in the library. The manuscript...

15th August 2024

Prior Park School achieved top results with 98% of students securing preferred choice of university. Head teacher of Prior Park, Peter Watts, is delighted with the school’s excellent A-level results. “Against the national picture in the UK where it is clear that results are going to go back to 2019 levels, I think a lot...

15th August 2024

Local students at the Gibraltar College, Westside and Bayside Schools received their A-level results today, achieving a combined pass rate of 90%. For many students, results day is a moment of relief and celebration after years of studying and months of anticipation. At Bayside and Westside Schools some 15 scholars, who achieved three A grades...

15th August 2024

The Gibraltar College has achieved an overall pass rate 82% this year, with a high number of passes in psychology. Principal Daniel Benrimoj has been in post for five months, during the “challenging stage of the academic year” having led the College “just before exams”. Now that results day is here, Mr Benrimoj is proud...

14th August 2024

Book Review By Michelle Montovio Although An Cailleach Gaeilge (The Irish Witch) is the first foray by Walter A Crisp into the realm of historical fiction, having made his debut as an author in 2012 when he published The Call of Duty - A History of Gibraltar and the Wars in Europe 1757-1815. That meticulously...

14th August 2024

When you’re six, seven, eight or nine, you are sometimes asked ‘and what do you want to be when you grow up?’ Invariably, the reply would be a policeman, a fireman or a nurse! As years go by ,your choice changes in many ways and schooling plays a significant part as you go through your...

13th August 2024

Local artist Geraldine Martinez has created two murals in Gibraltar and Tarifa, with the same message raising awareness of the environment. Ms Martinez has spent her summer painting murals on the walls of a luxury beach resort in Tarifa, and then in a Gibraltar based project at Eurocity Passage. The latest piece is a new...

13th August 2024

Children explored the history of Neanderthals during a boat tour of the Gorham’s Cave Complex as part of the Gibraltar National Museum’s series of educational summer workshops called ‘Walks Through History’. Senior Guide Phil Smith spoke about the importance of the caves in understanding the history of the Neanderthals. The Gorham’s Cave Complex is a...

12th August 2024

Only around 20% of Gibraltar’s population is a healthy weight and the health effects of living in an “obesogenic environment” has resulted in childhood insulin resistance, Public Health Gibraltar has warned. Public Health Gibraltar is creating a ‘Covenant for Health’ aimed on supporting health living after growing concerns of Gibraltar’s sedentary lifestyle, aging population, and...

12th August 2024

In my opinion Atrish Sanchez Shadow Minister for Care and Opportunity I would like to respond to the statements made by Minister Santos and Minister Arias Vasquez in the Wednesday, August 7th edition of the Gibraltar Chronicle. Their replies followed an interview I gave to the Chronicle a few days earlier, where I raised several...

10th August 2024

In 1985 I first got to know my guest at Alice’s Table this week really well. I was a young broadcaster and reporter at GBC, presenting on Radio Gibraltar and just stepping into broadcast journalism working in the Newsroom. Sport was never my thing. I enjoyed sport but I don’t think I could ever refer...

7th August 2024

My aunt, Promila Jagtiani, was a three-year-old girl when she left Karachi, sailing 550 miles to a place she never knew before but was soon to become her forever home. She recalls wearing a green sari which matched her elder sister, Nirmala, as they fled their homeland of Sindh, which was now in Pakistan, and...

5th August 2024

The Gibraltar Tourist Board has announced the first authors set for this year's Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival. The authors are Sir Graham Brady, Asad Qureshi, Deb Bunt and Peter Berry. The Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival will take place from November 11 to 17, 2024. The Minister for Culture and Tourism, Christian Santos said he was...

5th August 2024

Cars raced down Gibraltar’s airport runway this weekend in a fundraiser for SSAFA the Armed Forces charity. The event organised by ‘A Driving Force’ involved 70 people, in 35 vehicles, including participants and support vehicles. The race was part of a 10-day driving adventure across the Iberian Peninsula and Gibraltar which ends on August 9...

3rd August 2024

Doctor Keith Leonard Farrell is a retired ENT Surgeon who for many years worked at St Bernard’s Hospital. Today his time is dedicated to heritage matters and is the Vice-Chairman at the Gibraltar Heritage Trust which he first joined 24 years ago. In that time, he has served two terms as Chairman and has been...

3rd August 2024

Melanie Soiza Stagnetto has launched her first book ‘The Oceanic Sunfish’ with all proceeds set to be donated to her charity The Nautilus Project. The launch of the book, which received a partial grant from the Ministry of Culture, was attended by the Minister for Culture and Environment, Dr John Cortes, family and members of...

2nd August 2024

The cycle lane along Europort Avenue has been extended and more bicycle stands will follow, the Gibraltar Government announced as local group Sustainable Transport Action Group (STAG) push for a greener future. The cycle lane, which ended outside St Martin’s school, has been extended to the end of this road allowing cyclists and PLET users...

2nd August 2024

By Charles Durante There are some books which are almost unclassifiable, they don’t seem to belong to the conventional genres and defy our need to assign them to a well-known category. They are the librarian’s nightmare, as they don’t fit into the clearly defined labels which are used to catalogue books. These books are maverick...

31st July 2024

by F Oliva The most commented news of the recent Budget Session was the unexpected ministerial pronouncement regarding a more severe application of fiscal rules aimed at corporations, property owners and a heterogenous grouping referred to as “the wealthy”. The insinuation that this was only the beginning of more to come, was rather unnerving for...

30th July 2024

Sat in a corner of Casemates Square, artist Kyrane Lia captured Gibraltar’s history in quick monochrome brushstrokes on a Rock shaped barrier. The piece, commissioned by the Gibraltar Government, forms part of a project set to transform every Rock and cannon shaped barrier on Main Street and Irish Town. For four hours on Monday evening,...

30th July 2024

After months, almost a year in the “making”, the day had finally arrived for the group of Gold participants from the Open Award Centre, to leave the Rock for their Gold Qualifying Adventurous Journey. At 6am on Saturday, July 6, everyone met at the frontier and soon after it was time to bid farewell to...

27th July 2024

The Gibraltar Music Centre was launched in 1968 – many of us would have gone through the system which had its base at the Sacred Heart Church in those early years. Personally, I have very fond memories of the Centre and the people who run it because it introduced me to music in a big...

26th July 2024

Seven-year-old Gibraltarian Oliver Revagliatte saw himself, larger than life, on the Piccadilly Circus screen in London as the face of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s latest advertising campaign. His journey from diagnosis with a life-threatening illness last March to recovery is now at the heart of a major campaign by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) that...

26th July 2024

The Development and Planning Commission on Thursday approved a proposed garage extension at Villa 5, The Sanctuary, 3 Maida Vale despite concerns about environmental impact and “development creep” on the Nature Reserve. The application was for construction of a two-storey garage extension due to “existing insufficient parking provision”. The site currently has just one garage...

25th July 2024

The number of children referred to mental health services has sharply risen after close to 300 children were referred last year, the Gibraltar Government has confirmed. The three most common reasons for referrals to Gibraltar Young Minds (GYM) are anxiety, self-harm, and neurodevelopmental disorder. The figures show a year-on-year increase, with children accessing treatment from...