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24th March 2025

Tomorrow is World Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day and in this piece Manar Ben Tahayekt has detailed her life as a person with cerebral palsy. Growing up with cerebral palsy has shaped my life in profound ways, influencing not just how I experience the world but also how I navigate challenges. From an early age, I...

24th March 2025

A university project analysing the influence of migration on the make-up of Irish Town has received a commendation from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Mariam Pinto Rodriguez, a second year masters student in Architecture, completed the dissertation while at the Manchester School of Architecture, which aimed to examine migrant flows through forms of...

20th March 2025

The Gibraltar Parliament paid tribute to former Speaker and Supreme Court judge John Alcantara, CBE, who died last weekend aged 99 after a life of public service. Karen Ramagge, the Speaker of Parliament, led the tributes and said Mr Justice Alcantara had been firm and practical in his approach to his judicial and parliamentary duties,...

19th March 2025

Local students discussed barriers for women and gender balance in the legal industry at a workshop led by lawyers at Hassans. Some 17 students from Bayside, Westside, Gibraltar College, Prior Park and the Gibraltar Boys Secondary School attended the two-hour session. The workshop was led by Gibraltar’s first female KC, Gillian Guzman, and fellow lawyers...

18th March 2025

“The worst-case scenarios were utterly unthinkable,” Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Tuesday, as he looked back on five years since the Covid-19 pandemic and ahead to plans for an inquiry to ensure all possible lessons are learned. Standing behind a lectern, Mr Picardo briefed journalists live from No.6 Convent Place, just as he had...

18th March 2025

It has been five years since the Gibraltar joined many other countries and locked down for the Covid-19 pandemic. Talks of PPE, the virus, safety measures, infection rates and death figures featured daily on our news channels and in our newspapers. For the staff at the Chronicle, the way we went about our daily tasks...

16th March 2025

Women from across the globe have shared their stories in pocket booklets called zines, in a local exhibition marking International Women’s Day. The zines and recordings of personal testimonies are currently on display at the GEMA Gallery, which celebrates the voices and stories of women from all walks of life. A zine is a self-published...

14th March 2025

Last Saturday evening was a celebration of unity, compassion, and reflection as the Gibraltar Muslim Youth hosted their annual iftar during the blessed month of Ramadan. Year after year, the Muslim Youth Group has brought this meaningful event to life, and despite fasting themselves. The room was full of camaraderie and warmth, with every detail...

12th March 2025

The 2025 Awards ceremony for The Ladies That Rock The Rock took place on Thursday, March 6, at a gala dinner held at the Sunborn Hotel ahead of International Women’s Day. Organised by businesswoman Ayelet Mamo Shay, the founder of the award programme and author of The Ladies That Rock The Rock, the event recognised...

12th March 2025

The Gibraltar Government has defended its decision to change the eligibility criteria for university grants, adding it was aimed people who abuse of the system and not “genuine cases”. The Government said genuine cases, particularly those with children born in Gibraltar, “have nothing to worry about”, and that it would announce details of the change...

12th March 2025

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has been chosen as the charity for Lent by the Bishop of Gibraltar, Carmel Zammit, on behalf of Gibraltar’s catholic community, with the charity’s representatives having recently visited the Rock to put a spotlight on the work it carries out. ACN supports Christians around the world where they...

11th March 2025

Yes, and if we use the proper metaphorical term ‘in the dead of the night,’ then it’s even worse and much quieter with less happening in our town. I was just wondering why, in recent years, there is not much happening – apart from organised events like performances at one of our theatres, or elsewhere,...

11th March 2025

Two Royal Gibraltar Police officers have just returned to the Rock after successfully completing a four-month Police Academy course at the Abu Dhabi Police College. Detective Constables Guy Buist and Jade Santiago joined 75 police officers from 29 countries around the world for the intensive course. During the school, officers received firearms training, were pushed...

11th March 2025

A senior languages schoolteacher has underscored the importance of encouraging children to learn Spanish after she penned a letter to parents highlighting the need for support. When Westside School Head of Modern Foreign Languages Anna Martinez wrote a letter to parents, she stressed the importance of supporting students learning the language. She told the Chronicle...

11th March 2025

An injured grey seal first spotted on a slipway in the naval base last week was seen fishing for food off Europa Point on Monday. The seal, who conservationists have called Luisa, was seen catching a large conger eel and devouring it while floating just off the rocky shore. Lewis Stagnetto, a marine biologist with...

11th March 2025

By PA Reporters Fires aboard a cargo ship and a tanker which collided in the North Sea are “still raging”, a minister said. Matthew Pennycook said Coastguard aircraft were monitoring the site of the incident off the East Yorkshire coast. A search for a missing crew member from the cargo ship was called off on...

10th March 2025

Students at Prior Park school will be staging a performance built on the concept of the butterfly effect at the John Mackintosh Hall next week. The performance of ‘Chaos’ is made up of scenes that while separated, are interconnected and overlap, mirroring the butterfly effect, which is also known as the chaos theory. The youngsters...

9th March 2025

Schools across Gibraltar marked World Book Day on Thursday, avid reader and retired English teacher Charles Durante described the importance of reading. Mr Durante underscored the need to get children reading early, as is the aim of World Book Day, and praised efforts in Gibraltar to immerse youngsters into literature through various other initiatives such...

7th March 2025

In the early hours of Friday morning the team from The Nautilus Project [TNP] were called to assist with an injured grey seal spotted on the slipway at the naval base. The seal, who Lewis Stagnetto Marine Biologist for TNP believes could be named Luisa and has travelled all the way from Conil, has cuts...

6th March 2025

A £500,000 project to reintroduce seagrass into Gibraltar’s marine ecosystem was unveiled by Peninsula and The Nautilus Project (TNP) on Thursday afternoon, and could prove a template for similar initiatives around the world in future. Decades ago, seagrass formed part of the local marine seascape but surveys have shown this was lost over 15 years...

6th March 2025

Gibraltarian writers Giordano Durante and Gabriel Moreno are releasing a new book next month. Titled ‘The Crooked Timber’, the book comprises a series of exchanges between Mr Durante and Mr Moreno about poetic craft, the nature of artistic inspiration, the hybrid aspects of Gibraltarian identity, the lure of fame and flattery and some middle-aged grousing....

6th March 2025

A new cancer unit, which will serve Gibraltar’s needs for the next 10 to 15 years, will be in operation later this year, Clinical Director for Cancer Services Dr David Ballesteros said at a public meeting of the GHA Board. The new unit aims to address the rising demand in cancer cases as GHA figures...

5th March 2025

This week is Gibraltar Hearing Loss Week and young Ella Garcia is sharing her story to raise awareness for hearing issues. At just nine years old, Ella Garcia is facing a challenge that few in Gibraltar understand. She has hyperacusis, a rare condition that makes everyday sounds painfully overwhelming. For Ella, noise isn’t just a...

4th March 2025

By George Lithgow, PA The King has visited the Royal Navy’s flagship as it prepares for a major deployment to the other side of the world. Charles flew to HMS Prince of Wales in the English Channel, where he spoke to sailors and expressed his “heartfelt gratitude” for their service. He also watched as F-35B...

4th March 2025

For the first time in years I feel like I have started the new year with a note of hope for a good year ahead. Part of me thinks it could be because all the TikTok astrologers I have come across on my algorithm have said that this is a good year for love, finance,...

3rd March 2025

One again Nick Reyes and Rob Weir, Gibraltar Rugby U14 Coaches led their young rugby talents thriugh a succeedul tour, this time the Gibraltar Rugby Football Union U14 team visiting Bath in England. The coaches describing it as a “golden year.” “During this tour, the team took on some of their most challenging opponents, including...

3rd March 2025

Local author Susan Cabezutto has released her second book, The Jekyll and Hyde in Him, which focuses on narcissism and its effects on relationships and family dynamics. All of the proceeds from the book, which is published by UK-based Michael Terence Publishing, will go to Women In Need Gibraltar. The Jekyll and Hyde in Him...

3rd March 2025

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has appointed well-known broadcaster and highly respected journalist Alice Mascarenhas to become the next Chair of the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Board. Ms Mascarenhas, a former Deputy Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle and now columnist for this newspaper, will be the first woman to chair the GBC board since it was...

2nd March 2025

17th Campo de Gibraltar History Conference is set to honour Gibraltarian researcher Tito Benady. The tradition to hold the conference began during the autumn of 1990, when the first conference of the Campo de Gibraltar was held at the headquarters of the Mancomunidad de Municipios del Campo de Gibraltar. These conferences, the seed for the...

2nd March 2025

By Vanessa Correa It was some time during 2010 when, unknown to me at the time, my life was starting to change. It all started with the occasional fainting episodes. Irrespective of what I was doing, all of a sudden I would faint and would not wake up for at least a couple of minutes....