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23rd January 2024

I cross Tower Bridge on foot almost every day. It’s my daily commute to the south side of the river, and then back home in the evening. I don’t discount that it’s quite a thing to be able to do. There have been moments of sheer magic, especially in the early morning when there’s barely...

22nd January 2024

By Storm Newton, Health Reporter Millions of parents in England are being urged to book their children in for missed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) jabs, amid a “very real risk” of measles outbreaks across the country. Officials said the decline in the uptake of routine childhood vaccinations is a “serious concern”. The new NHS campaign comes after...

22nd January 2024

By Elena Scialtiel Art, music and poetry came together at the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday evening during a performance of the ‘Strait Rhapsody Project’. The event formed part of the ‘No Cuesta D’Enero’ programme organized by the Fine Arts Association. Poet Trino Cruz provided the spoken word, while Javier Lopez Escalona played his cello...

22nd January 2024

The House of Commons will this week debate the future of Girlguiding in British Overseas Territories including Gibraltar. The debate comes after months of lobbying to urge Girlguiding UK to reverse a decision it announced last April to cut overseas ties, citing concerns about risk management and its future ability to run an overseas operation...

22nd January 2024

A Dame, a French poodle and talking furniture will be on stage at Ince’s Hall this week for the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ pantomime. Theatre Makers are set to stage their annual pantomime and its director, Margaret Seed, said that this year their production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ promises to captivate audiences with its...

22nd January 2024

The winners of the 2024 ‘The Ladies That Rock The Rock Award’ have been announced. The award program, now in its second year, follows publication of the book “The Ladies That Rock The Rock” by businesswoman and author Ayelet Mamo Shay, who developed the program with the initial support of the former Minister of Equality,...

22nd January 2024

At the tender age of seven, Alba Morales Llufrio is currently undergoing chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia at Great Ormond Street Hospital [GOSH] in London. Since the start of her treatment, her close-knit family is doing all it can to for the organisations that help their little girl. The family is aiming to raise £10,000...

19th January 2024

This month has seen a landmark birthday for our national broadcaster. 60 is a diamond jubilee and it would be fair to suggest that the whole community has celebrated the achievement of the steady and enduring journey that has endeared GBC to its public. I spent over twenty years of my life in GBC television...

19th January 2024

By Simon Warburton Working to ensure its members have the tools to prevent everything from terrorism financing to money laundering, internal fraud to financial crime, the Gibraltar Association of Compliance Officers (GACO) is at the forefront of educating its 250-plus members on how best to keep the Rock’s myriad institutions safe. GACO members range from...

18th January 2024

The Gibraltar Government has published draft legislation which aims to formalise the cultural framework in Gibraltar in a bid to promote and enhance the arts. The 22-page document ‘Gibraltar Culture Bill 2024’ outlines the general principles of cultural policy, formalises roles, introduces the Gibraltar Public Lending Library and re-introduces an Arts Advisory Council. The draft...

18th January 2024

Award winning filmmaker Ian Sciacaluga will return to Gibraltar this year to work on a collaboration with local director, Ian Serra of Transatlantic Films. The pair will be co-producing two horror films. He will work with Mr Serra on the sequel to ‘Pieces’ a horror film that starred Mr Serra decades ago. “It will be...

17th January 2024

Plans have been filed with the Development and Planning Commission for a battery energy storage station [BESS] at the North Mole power station that will provide resilience to Gibraltar’s electricity supply and reduce the Rock’s carbon footprint. The BESS is a zero-emission alternative to existing temporary diesel generators that provide grid support and stability services....

17th January 2024

The ‘No Cuesta D’Enero’ programme opened on Monday evening with a performance by The Movement Collective. ‘No Cuesta D’Enero’ is a programme featuring performances, live painting, and seminars, and has been organised by the Fine Arts Association. The programme will see two live paintings events held this evening in the Fine Arts Gallery. A portrait...

16th January 2024

GibSams has organised an event where Rabbi Shalom Hammer will address mental health charities and the community with a “raw, poignant, and deeply impactful talk” as he shares the story of his daughter Gila’s death by suicide. Rabbi Hammer has now dedicated his life to raising mental health awareness and suicide prevention through the non-profit...

15th January 2024

The Fine Arts Association will tonight launch their project ‘No Cuesta D’Enero’, which features performances, live painting, seminars, and a collaboration with artist collection Kitchen Studios. The week-long programme will begin this evening with a dance performance by The Movement Collective in the Fine Arts Gallery. Joseph Alecio and Gemma Lopez from the Fine Arts...

15th January 2024

By Brian Porro Gibraltarian émigrés probably fall into several categories. There are those who leave without so much as a backward glance, possibly rarely if ever returning, who may or may not use or keep up their Spanish or Yanito skills; those who frequently return, but are otherwise well integrated abroad; and the expatriate Yani...

13th January 2024

This week GBC Television is celebrating 60 years of public broadcasting service on the Rock with an exhibition at the Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery at Casemates. The actual anniversary of the amalgamation – the merger of both radio and television was on 1 October 1963. But the story begins in 1958 when Radio Gibraltar was born....

12th January 2024

By Simon Warburton Early learning difficulties experienced by current Minister for Justice, Trade and Industry, Nigel Feetham, are inspiring the Cabinet member to champion opportunities for young people in the financial services and gaming sectors. Thanks in large part to his grandfather who taught him maths and English, the young Feetham carried a sense of...

11th January 2024

Planning permission, with conditions, was granted for a boutique hotel at 3 Secretary’s Lane/12 Governor’s Lane during Wednesday’s meeting of the Development and Planning Commission. The application included various aspects such as the building's aesthetics, heritage considerations, sustainability measures, traffic impact and use of outdoor spaces. Deputy Town Planner Christopher Key briefed the DPC on...

10th January 2024

Gibraltar’s e-scooter legislation is “really badly drafted”, Chief Justice Anthony Dudley said on Wednesday, as an appeal in the Supreme Court questioned how people convicted of drink driving on an e-scooter could be disqualified from driving cars and motorbikes, but not e-scooters themselves. The appeal was lodged by lawyer Charles Bonfante on behalf of his...

10th January 2024

It’s not every day, especially in Gibraltar, that you find a child whose passion for horseriding is above an beyond expectations, but Gibraltar has been producing some starlets in the sport as highlighted in December in our reports. Among one of them is Emma-Leigh Perez, daughter of Cary-Anne Taylor and David Perez. To many, who...

9th January 2024

I’ve taken to social media breaks over holidays. It’s a nice way to be able to prise my phone out of my hands and let my mind take a rest. It’s not something I notice until I reinstall the apps and don’t restrict my use. I’ll find myself scrolling mindlessly. Before I know it, an...

8th January 2024

This is the full text of a New Year message from Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. By Fabian Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar I hope you have all had a peaceful and restful Christmas and New Year break. 2023 was a challenging year in many respects. And so, as we all took the quieter days of...

8th January 2024

In this week-long series the Chronicle explores the local art scene from a different perspective, instead of artists holding the art exhibition, of those who buy and collect the art on show. Overlooking Tarifa, Patrick Sacarello stood taking in the view he’d commissioned a decade prior from an upcoming Gibraltarian painter, Christian Hook. In front...

6th January 2024

Another year. This Saturday column now enters its sixth year. Unbelievable how time flies – I guess, we are all saying that these days. It’s a repeat from last year. But here’s to another year. And here’s wishing the very best in health, love and happiness in this new year to all readers of this...

4th January 2024

The judiciary and the legal profession gathered in the Supreme Court on Thursday to pay tribute and bid farewell, professionally at least, to Karen Ramagge, Gibraltar’s first female Supreme Court judge who retired from the bench last year to become the Speaker of Parliament. The sentiment in the packed courtroom during the valedictory ceremony was...

3rd January 2024

By Dr Joseph Garcia, Deputy Chief Minister 2024 will be a year of many challenges. Not least those posed by the work which continues to progress for the conclusion of a treaty which will govern our future relationship with the European Union, and with our closest EU neighbour Spain. The coming weeks are expected to...

3rd January 2024

The coming weeks will be “crunch time” for the negotiations on a UK/EU treaty for the Rock’s future relations with the bloc, Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said in a New Year message. Dr Garcia acknowledged that multiple “self-imposed deadlines” had “come and gone” in the past but that, with EU elections due in...

2nd January 2024

The negotiation for a treaty on the Rock’s post-Brexit relations with the European Union continued to dominate much of the coverage during 2023, but the year once again draws to a close without resolution. The talks were put on hold for much of the year as hotly-contested elections were held here and in Spain, but...

29th December 2023

Albert Isola, until recently the Minister for Financial and Digital Services, has been appointed by King Charles III to be a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [CBE] for services to the financial and digital industries in Gibraltar. Mr Isola, who stepped back from frontline politics at the last general election, was...