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23rd September 2024

The RGP responds to more than one domestic report a day, ranging from verbal disturbances to assaults, with the force providing education to school-age children to counter harmful online messaging on relationships. Around 16% of all crimes reported to the RGP are considered a domestic and cases range across all ages from teens to elderly...

19th September 2024

Negotiators for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar will meet in Brussels this morning for a high-level political negotiating round in a bid to progress toward an agreement that will guarantee post-Brexit border fluidity for people and goods. The meeting, scheduled to run from 10.30am to 2pm in the Commission’s Berlaymont building, will bring together Commissioner...

16th September 2024

Negotiators for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit relations with the bloc will hold another four-way political summit in Brussels on Thursday to continue the work toward an agreement. The meeting, the third of its kind, will bring together UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares, European Commission vice president Maroš...

13th September 2024

By Joe Adambery This year, the National Day concert successfully delivered a diverse programme featuring a mix of heavy rock, popular chart classics, indie rock, and taverna /troubadour music. Jensen Callejon who has previously organised these concerts, put together Dead City Radio, Bob and The Boys, TCB, Cedar and bill topping Gabriel Moreno and the...

7th September 2024

By Keith Azopardi, Leader of the Opposition As we celebrate another National Day it’s also an opportunity to reflect on the challenges on our domestic and international horizon. Nearly 12 months on from the closest election ever the issues of domestic governance - that affect you every day - that affect the cash in your...

7th September 2024

We return this week to the ‘Views of Gibraltar’, a book published by V.B.Cumbo, a Gibraltarian photographer working at the time also producing a great variety of postcards out of all the photographs he took. Last week we published as part of Alice’s Table the photographs of the views and changing landscape of Gibraltar –...

5th September 2024

Gibraltar’s lifeguards were commended for their work throughout the bathing season in an awards ceremony recently at the John Mackintosh Hall. The event highlighted the hard work and dedication of the Rock’s 28 lifeguards. They were commended by the Minister for the Environment, Dr John Cortes, for the 17 rescues carried out across Gibraltar this...

28th August 2024

By Neve Clinton This summer the Mindspace project has held their second Summer Program, with more in the pipeline for the coming academic year. Their Summer Camp, entitled ‘Knowing our Gibraltar’, saw visits to the Northern Defences, the Fire Station and the Alameda Wildlife Park, as well as a dolphin watching trip. It also included...

22nd August 2024

Caring for animals is at the heart of the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park (AWCP), something which the team are encouraging members of the public to take to heart. For years, a range of exotic pets no longer deemed fit for the home by members of the public are brought to the AWCP, with the park...

26th July 2024

By Simon Warburton To the Sunborn again where Deloitte in Gibraltar was hosting its Conduct Risk Conference with manager Robin Petrie leading a conversation on greenwashing, but just what is it? According to Petrie, greenwashing is when businesses make misleading or unsubstantiated claims about environmental performance. Like it or not, we live on an extraordinarily...

8th July 2024

As the school summer holidays appraoches many parents will be looking at how they will manage their summer and provide their children with something to do. Work, the concerns raised by the cost of living, hot summers days and what has always seemed as a long holiday (although it is generally the same length every...

6th July 2024

Many of the people I invite to Alice’s Table are people I have known for a long time – and what often amazes me is the countless number of people I have met through my work as a journalist and broadcaster. A good number of them have become a part of my life and I...

24th June 2024

The 2024 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Gibraltar (LETRSOG) will this year take place this Wednesday at 3pm conjunction with the opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics National Game held at Lathbury Sports Complex. This year, the ‘Torch Run’, authorised by the Director of Education will again be starting from the courtyard steps...

13th June 2024

The Nautilus Project recently held its 8th annual World Ocean Day School Competition award ceremony at MUGA. TNP said the competition themed on ‘Planet Ocean Tides Are Changing’ was a “resounding success”. “Hundreds of entries were submitted across all the categories and the standard blew the judging panel away,” TNP said. Judges deliberated for over...

12th June 2024

There is less than a month to go until the general election will be held in the United Kingdom and Gibraltarians who have in the past been eligible to vote in the UK will be able to do so again under the new Vote for Life policy. Previously, people who had left the UK more...

28th May 2024

This article was written by the charity Blood Cancer UK (Gibraltar Branch) to mark World Blood Cancer Day (May 28) and raise awareness of the diseases that have had such a powerful impact on their lives. Today marks World Blood Cancer Day, we aim to raise awareness on this day of the many types of...

18th May 2024

Albert Hammond is 80 today. But our chat quickly reveals he is much younger in years; in spirit; in his attitude and outlook on life; his future. Recently he released his 19th studio album ‘Body of Work’ which presents us with a fresh, contemporary Albert, who is still going strong, composing, singing and performing, and...

14th May 2024

By Stephen Ignacio Karate Do Shotokai celebrates fifty years since it was first founded on the Rock. Going from its humble beginnings to its present day, where it has gained international recognition as it paves its own pathway independently, the club has brought something more than a sport to Gibraltar. Based very much on the...

14th May 2024

Gibraltar might have celebrated it a day later but the World Athletics Kids Athletics Day 2024 was just as much a success as it would have been a day earlier. The GAAA organised on the 8th of May its Kids Athletics Day 2024 under the World Athletics umbrella with some 170 children participating across all...

14th May 2024

The GCA hosted their first Island Games qualifier this past Saturday with the assistance of many volunteers and what was described as an overwhelming response from riders also to make it happen. The qualifiers saw riders tested in the Castillo de Castellar climb. See table for results. This weekend some of Gibraltar’s riders will also...

10th May 2024

by Simon Warburton Esports Gibraltar says it has recently been accepted as the 142nd member of the International Esports Federation (IESF). Officially Gibraltar Esports & Video Gaming Association (GEVGA), Esports Gibraltar notes its acceptance in the IESF “raises the bar once again for the development of the local scene and what we have to offer.”...

27th April 2024

The year 1937 saw the publication of a special edition of the Gibraltar Directory. The year of the Coronation and a year after the start of the Spanish Civil War. The price of this directory was four shillings. Its editor and proprietor were one and the same, Benedict Miles. The publication had been printed at...

22nd April 2024

Today is Earth Day and the message this year is ‘Planet vs. Plastics’, reinforcing a commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, and demanding a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics by 2040. There was consensus among environmental groups in Gibraltar that small steps, even by individuals, can...

17th April 2024

The RTBG conference serves as a dynamic platform for the University of Gibraltar faculty, Associate Researchers, and PhD students to showcase their latest research endeavours. Beyond presentations, the conference aims to cultivate interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate knowledge exchange, and foster engagement with the local community. The goal is to spotlight the remarkable research contributions emerging from...

11th April 2024

As part of World Book Day celebrations, the pupils and staff at St Anne’s Upper Primary School participated in various book-related activities throughout the week. Embracing an initiative from a colleague at the neighbouring Notre Dame school, year 5 and 6 pupils welcomed visitors from years 1 and 2 and took showed them the school...

3rd April 2024

Moving to a country that requires some form of residence visa is not punctuated by the drama you might think. There’s the romantic notion of immigration, where you step on a ship making its way across the Atlantic and find yourself under the Statue of Liberty, being asked for your papers. Then there’s the other...

3rd April 2024

The Key to a Sustainable Urban Future By Annabelle Mor-Codali It was British urban planner Ebenezer Howard in his 1898 book “Garden Cities of To-Morrow” who had a vision to design and plan cities that offered a peaceable, liveable environment, replete with nature and open spaces. His ideas grew out of the Industrial Revolution and...

22nd March 2024

Today is World Water Day and AquaGib has announced that it funded Action4Schools’ well number 102 in Mokolloh Village, Moyamba, Sierra Leone. This is the second well sponsored by AquaGIb, with the first one being done in 2017. “We are thrilled that Gibraltar's water company have once again supported our charity and funded a new...

21st March 2024

Gibraltar’s Jewish Community has dropped plans to hold a demonstration in response to last Monday’s pro-Palestine march, adding it was stepping back in the wider interests of Gibraltar and to avoid inflaming tensions. In a statement, the Managing Board of the Jewish Community (MBJC) described deep concern in the Jewish community following Monday’s march, which...

11th March 2024

Celebrating International Women’s Day, a cohort of Gibraltarian graduates have marked their success in achieving a Master’s degree which will be key in pursuing management roles. The cohort completed their MA in Leadership and Management at the University of Gibraltar and they came together to highlight women focusing on further education and their careers while...