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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...

23rd July 2024

By Sam Hall and Margaret Davis, PA Violence against women and girls is a “national emergency” with nearly 3,000 crimes recorded every day, a leading police chief has warned in a new report. More than one million violent crimes against women and girls were recorded by police in 2022/23, according to a report commissioned by...

22nd July 2024

The smell of human stress affects dogs’ emotions and could lead to them making more pessimistic choices, a new study led by a Gibraltarian researcher has suggested. Dr Zoe Parr-Cortes, a vet and researcher at Bristol Veterinary School, is the lead author on a paper published on Monday that set out the new findings. The...

22nd July 2024

By Gabriella Peralta and Nathan Barcio Fraudsters have swiped a total of £3.2m within days in a telephone scam targeting local businesses, the Royal Gibraltar Police has confirmed. The telephone scam, which came to the fore last week, has seen fraudsters impersonate local bank employees in a bid to gain access to their personal accounts...

22nd July 2024

Nigel Jeffries from the Gibraltar Canoeing Association has recently returned from the UK where he received an Award of Honour from Paddle UK, the UK National governing body, for his commitment and work over 25 years, during which he went above and beyond to promote and develop paddling activities on the Rock. Each year, clubs...

17th July 2024

The Gibraltar Tourist Board (GTB) is supporting industry title TTG (the Travel Trade Gazette) in its annual ‘Fairer Travel Month’ campaign, which sees a series of events drawing together all sectors of the UK travel industry to champion a more diversity-inclusive and sustainable sector for the future. Launching in London this week with the Fairer...

17th July 2024

The recently launch Street Football programme headed to the beach last Saturday, and will be at Rosia nextweekend. The programme aimed at encouraging youngsters to play the sport recreationally, away from the disciplined club football scene, and encouraging a growth to a return of street football, has seen much interest. With football having become a...

17th July 2024

The Nautilus Project Youth Monitors Erin Villa Quick and Annie Ellul last week engaged with local children in a series of marine life and environmental activities aimed at fostering a love for marine life and a sense of responsibility towards the marine environment. On Tuesday, 26 children attended a talk by marine biologist Lewis Stagnetto...

17th July 2024

Have you not noticed how more of us are just kissing one cheek, and not both, when greeting a friend or relative? For a very long time both cheeks were approached but much less now, and when I use the word, 'approached’, I mean, not so many of us actually kiss the cheek but merely...

16th July 2024

The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority has underscored concern over findings in a media literacy survey that showed some local adults and children are not confident in identifying misinformation online. In a 28-page report, the GRA set out its findings in their ‘Media Literacy Matters’ survey, which saw 6,240 respondents. The survey, split in two parts with...

15th July 2024

At a solemn and joyous Golden Jubilee celebration as a priest Bishop Carmel Zammit received a special message from the Holy Father at the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned. The message in Latin from Pope Francis was read out at a special thanksgiving Mass on Sunday evening by the Apostolic Nuncio to the United...

15th July 2024

By Gema Martinez Corrales Kationa Matto led a ‘Yoga for Kids’ session on Wednesday at the GEMA gallery as part of the Gibraltar Cultural Services Summer Programme. Ms Matto has been practicing yoga for 10 years, and she said how much it has helped her, and how it inspires her to teach children about it....

15th July 2024

There is a beautiful house in Wales called Tredegar Park, which is a boarding school run by very strict nuns. It has a big grassy garden that all the children can play in. Two 11-year-old friends called Louise and Janet boarded at the school and only went home one a month. They were friends because...

14th July 2024

By Simon Peach, PA Chief Football Writer, Berlin England’s wait for a first major men’s trophy since 1966 goes on after substitute Mikel Oyarzabal struck at the death as Spain inflicted a second successive European Championship final defeat on Gareth Southgate’s side. Three years ago the nation stood on the edge of history, only for...

13th July 2024

50 years is a long time. Tomorrow the Bishop of Gibraltar Carmel Zammit will celebrate 50 years as a priest. And even though we have told his story on these pages before, it is fitting – for such a grand and enormously important occasion – that he should once again sit at Alice’s Table. He...

12th July 2024

My mother adjusted the oxygen cylinder on my shoulders like a backpack. There was nothing unusual about it. We have been living like this for centuries now. I am filled with so much disgust and consternation for my forefathers. How could they be so callous and selfish? You know, all the kids my age are...