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20th June 2025

This week sitting at Alice’s Table is a person who is no stranger to these pages, and who most of us will know – having been a former Chief Minister under the AACR Government, Leader of the Opposition, the Speaker of Parliament, and Mayor of Gibraltar – and even acted as Governor of Gibraltar in...

20th June 2025

A training session aimed at strengthening the legal profession’s role in Gibraltar’s anti-money laundering, combatting the financing of terrorism, and counter-proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF) framework was held today. The session was delivered jointly by the Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit (GFIU), the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) and the Gibraltar Association of Compliance Officers (GACO). Speakers included...

20th June 2025

Sir Joe Bossano, who for over five decades has championed Gibraltar’s British sovereignty and its right to self-determination, said he was wholly behind the political agreement for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar. Speaking to Jonathan Scott on GBC’s Viewpoint, Sir Joe was robust in dispelling social media rumours of a cabinet split on the agreement....

19th June 2025

This week that Royal Life Saving Society Gibraltar is marking Drowning Prevention Week 2025 and today the Society looks at the points you need to take to prevent incidents occurring on the beaches. WATER SAFETY ON OUR BEACHES Many people in the summer spend time on our beaches. Remember the following points when at the...

18th June 2025

A young man who set fire to a family home in Mid-Harbour Estate while three adults and two children were asleep inside was on Wednesday jailed for six years. Juan Francisco Sanchez Valenzuela, 19, of Castellar, had admitted to arson with intent to endanger life while in police custody just hours after he set fire...

18th June 2025

Swiss photographer Karin Tieche launched her first exhibition on the Rock on Tuesday evening in the Fine Arts Gallery, Casemates. The exhibition, titled ‘Wild Africa’, was opened by fellow photographer Stephen Hermida who called it “very spectacular.” He added that it was also meaningful and personal to him as a photographer, highlighting the fact that...

18th June 2025

Members of Unite the Union’s Health and Care sector took to the street on Wednesday evening for a noisy demonstration to make clear their frustration over a range of issues facing workers. Starting at Unite’s headquarters in Transport House with banners and placards in hand, demonstrators and supporters chanted as they made their way to...

18th June 2025

This week that Royal Life Saving Society Gibraltar is marking Drowning Prevention Week 2025 and today the Society looks at the points you need to take to prevent incidents occurring in the swimming pool. WATER SAFETY IN THE SWIMMING POOL Many people particularly in the summer spend time by the swimming pool. Remember the following...

17th June 2025

Unite will be holding a demonstration at 5pm today on behalf of its members in the health and care sector. Unite said the demonstration was called due to “the frustration of shop stewards and members across a range of issues including the lack of meaningful progress on issues and claims, both individual and collective, issues...

17th June 2025

This week that Royal Life Saving Society Gibraltar is marking Drowning Prevention Week 2025 and today the Society looks at the points you need to take to prevent incidents occurring at the home, which is a serious issue worldwide. Water safety at the river Although most people go down to the beach or swimming pool...

17th June 2025

Pushing aside the grey, horrible levanter cloud we unfortunately have to put up with, that headline is a description of a hot summer’s day, which is what we’ve been experiencing lately and the opening to another summer season for a few weeks henceforth. Yes, summer’s here. You could say Gib is busy all year round...

17th June 2025

My words take on wings every time I go to see a GAMPA show. It has to be said: What a legacy Christian Santos left the academy when he went into politics. Last week, I went to review the end of term show that the academy put on at the John Mackintosh Hall. I knew...

17th June 2025

This week that Royal Life Saving Society Gibraltar is marking Drowning Prevention Week 2025 and today the Society looks at the points you need to take to prevent incidents occurring at the home, which is a serious issue worldwide. 1. Always watch children around water 2. Empty paddling pools and buckets after use. 3. Cover...

13th June 2025

Gibraltar Cultural Services has opened the nomination process for the 2025 Cultural Awards, which aim to celebrate outstanding achievements across Gibraltar’s arts and culture scene. The awards will consider accomplishments from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. The public is encouraged to nominate individuals, groups, events, projects or organisations that have made a notable...

12th June 2025

By Chief Minister Fabian Picardo For over five years, Gibraltar has been at the centre of one of the most complex, technical, and geopolitically sensitive negotiations undertaken by the United Kingdom and the European Union since Brexit. The process has consumed me. It has occupied close to half of my time in elected office, taken...

12th June 2025

The political agreement for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar will mean “zero change” for the UK’s military base on the Rock, the House of Commons was told on Thursday. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was taking questions on the agreement a day after the UK, EU, Spain and Gibraltar announced a political deal for a treaty...

11th June 2025

Just before 5pm, news broke that Gibraltar had a “historic agreement” and, as the news filtered through, the Chronicle took to Main Street to find out what locals thought. Overall the news was welcomed, but cautiously so. The common refrain was a call for more details. Bhisham Nihchalani said it was “amazing” news, but that...

11th June 2025

A historic political agreement was reached on Wednesday for a treaty on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit relations with the EU. The agreement comes after nearly four years of prolonged and intense negotiation and seeks to guarantee fluidity across the border for both people and goods, laying a foundation for cross-border prosperity. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said it...

10th June 2025

There is nothing more relaxing than settling on the sofa after a long day, a cup of tea in my hand while I watch the adrenaline-filled suspense of a good medical drama. For the past few months, I have moved on from one show to another and, honestly, it has been a ride. I can...

10th June 2025

By Marti Crespo For the first time, a group of Gibraltarians has brought Bloomsday to the Rock. On the website of the James Joyce Centre, Gibraltar now appears among the list of cities around the world that, on 16 June, host readings and walks focused on the characters, settings, and major passages from James Joyce’s...

9th June 2025

Gibraltar Triathlete Kelvin Gomez recently earned himself a professional triathlon licence after an impressive second place finish in the Outlaw Triathlon in the UK. In so doing becoming the first Gibraltarian to compete at the professional level in triathlon. Competing against a very strong field he was to take on the Outlaw Triathlon which is...

8th June 2025

By Rebecca Calderon On 24th May 2013 Gibraltar got into UEFA and everyone celebrated. Football went from amateur to professional overnight, we’d be playing in the EUROS, and local clubs would fight it out for Champions and Europa League places. Before this, football in Gibraltar was community-based around family ties and the club house, with...

6th June 2025

Over the past year, Gibraltar’s Town Planning Department has dealt with over 560 applications with a combined construction value of nearly half a billion pounds. The data was revealed by the Minister with responsibility for Town Planning, Gemma Arias Vasquez, during an address to the Aspire Conference, held on the Sunborn on Friday. Ms Arias...

6th June 2025

Do you like to sing? Do you wanna sing? I believe secretly we all do, especially in our own private auditorium – the shower. Safe place that it is and boxed in where no one can hear us. But if you really wanna sing then you have got to sing it out loud and sing...

6th June 2025

Book blogger Kimberly Foreman reviews a sizzling suspense novel. Genre: Steamy thriller This week’s book choice is one I read recently whilst on holiday in Barbados. It’s a sizzling suspense novel and, therefore, the perfect summer beach read. So, a bit about the book: Zoe (a published but struggling author) lives in Los Angeles, but...

5th June 2025

The Government of Gibraltar has partnered with UK climate tech company IES to launch the territory’s first Dynamic Simulation Modelling (DSM) tool, designed to support compliance with Gibraltar’s Part F energy regulations for new buildings and extensions. Developed with funding from the Climate Action Fund, the tool has been incorporated into IES’s Virtual Environment platform...

3rd June 2025

A £30,000 housing bursary for eligible new recruits in the Royal Gibraltar Regiment has been announced by the Gibraltar Government. The bursary aims to enhance local recruitment and provide a strong incentive for young Gibraltarians to serve in the regiment by helping them on to the housing ladder. The bursary is set at the approximate...

3rd June 2025

by Matvey Celecia During last week’s Viewpoint programme on GBC last Thursday night one young person interviewed suggested casually that he wouldn’t mind dual citizenship with Spain as it would be ‘beneficial’ to “make life easier” and watch football in Spain. I don’t think this reflects the views of young people or my view. Understanding...

3rd June 2025

by Leah Pou Local artist Paul Passano has won the top prize in the Gibraltar Heritage Trust 36th Annual Painting Competition. The competition saw artists capture Witham’s Cemetery during a day-long plein air session, with the paintings currently exhibited in the GEMA Gallery in Montagu Bastion. Mr Passano was thrilled to have won the £1,000...

3rd June 2025

One of my favourite things to do in Washington DC is to run around the National Mall. I’m not yet, and hopefully never, tired of passing by monuments I grew up watching on television that felt so far away from my own life they may as well have been on a different planet. The six...