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2nd February 2024

By Simon Warburton Gibraltar 3D design and scanning start-up, Barton Solutions, has lofty ambitions to make the Rock one of the leading centres for the technology, which can be used by estate agents and developers. Based out of Ragged Staff Wharf, owner and managing director, 25-year-old James Barton, who invested more than £25,000 of his...

1st February 2024

A former Royal Bank of Scotland International employee told the Supreme Court her “world came crashing down” when she was informed of an alleged £2m shortfall in the bank’s cash reserve. The court is hearing evidence from ex bank employees in the trial of former RBSI senior manager Gillian Balban, who is accused of fraud...

31st January 2024

Rain has finally arrived. Well, it is the end of January and it’s winter after all, and what comes to mind right now, as I write and watching the rain showers splashing onto the ground below, transports me back to my much younger years in the late 50s very early 60s. I used to pick...

29th January 2024

Gibraltar Triathlon is looking into the future with a rebrand which highights it close ties with the world governing body of the sport and a new partnership which they hope will help them meet the demands of an extensive calendar during 2024, including the Triathlon World Championships in Malaga. A spokesperson for the association commented...

29th January 2024

By Jordan Reynolds, PA Disposable vapes are set to be banned in Britain as part of plans to tackle the rise in young people vaping and protect children’s health. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to announce the plan to implement the ban – using powers already in place under the Environmental Protection Act – which is...

27th January 2024

Maribel Cumming – is one of the many names who will always be associated and intrinsically linked to Radio Gibraltar in the old Wellington Front Days. But those of us from the theatre world also knew her as one of our finest and most accomplished local actresses. But Maribel was, and perhaps few people know...

24th January 2024

Over the past few weeks my social media feed has been taken over by millennial women complaining about 10-year old children spending hundreds of dollars on skin care in Sephora. While many of these content creators on TikTok and Instagram are based in the US, the effect of this influencer culture is being felt on...

24th January 2024

Rabbi Shalom Hammer addressed mental health charities, professionals, social workers, the mayor and the minister for Equality, Employment, Culture and Tourism last Thursday and shared the story of his daughter Gila’s death by suicide. The event was organised by GibSams, but he was brought to the Rock by Isaac Hassan who did so to mark...

23rd January 2024

The groundbreaking ceremony for the pedestrianisation project at EuroCity took place on Tuesday afternoon. Anna Cherepakhova, a Director at Bentley Group of Companies, said the project aimed to create “a low emission, eco-friendly, pedestrian-friendly zone to really give back to the public realm and the pedestrians in what is we think a very developed a...

23rd January 2024

The UK Government is exploring options with Girlguiding UK that might enable Girlguiding to continue in British Overseas Territories, including Gibraltar, under the umbrella of the UK organisation. The message was delivered by Stuart Andrew, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, during a debate in Westminster Hall in the House of...

23rd January 2024

Commander British Forces (CBF), Commodore Tom Guy, presented the No2 Overseas (Gibraltar) Squadron (Sqn) with a CBF Commendation last week No 2 Overseas (Gibraltar) Sqn is one of four remaining Air Cadet Sqns who specifically cater for members of the Air Training Corps outside of the UK. The Sqn parades twice a week and is...

23rd January 2024

The Mayor, Carmen Gomez is reminding the public that they are invited to submit nominations for the next conferral of Mayor’s Awards to be held during March. The closing date to receive nominations is Friday, February 2, 2024. “The Mayor’s Awards have become a permanent fixture in Gibraltar’s annual civic calendar and serve to highlight...

23rd January 2024

Gibraltarians for a Multilingual Society (GFAMS) held its first general meeting and this month marks its first year anniversary. “Ever since then, it has been very busy addressing the very worrying problem of language loss in our community,” said a statement from the society. “In this time, it has managed to raise the profile of...

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....