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10th May 2023

Air passengers travelling through Gibraltar International Airport faced disruption on Wednesday after a one-day strike at the Met Office led to multiple flight cancellations and diversions. The Met Office provides weather information for the safe operation of the airport and despite the strike being announced some days ago, no cover was in place. A total...

9th May 2023

Several residents of Montagu Gardens who blocked smoke extraction shafts by extending their properties without permission have succeeded in overturning an order to remove the encroachments, after the Supreme Court found the shafts were “not fit for purpose” even before they were obstructed. The Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service had issued notices to the residents...

9th May 2023

Tributes were paid on Monday to Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Ernest Michael Britto OBE ED KMCO, a former government minister who served as a Member of Parliament for over two decades and died on Monday aged 79. Lt Col Britto became an MP in 1988 and later went on to serve as a minister in the...

6th May 2023

By Tony Jones, PA Court Correspondent The King has been crowned the nation’s monarch and prayed to be a “blessing” to people of “every faith and conviction”. Charles became the 40th reigning sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, the nation’s coronation church since 1066, as Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed St Edward’s Crown...

3rd May 2023

A new piece of cutting-edge body imaging equipment that could save the lives of people with skin cancer has been donated to the Specialist Medical Clinic in Gibraltar, with part of the proceeds from future consultations to be donated to Cancer Relief Gibraltar. The ‘Mole Mapping’ machine provides automated total-body digital imaging, which helps doctors...

26th April 2023

A proposed new development on Bayside Road called ‘One Bayside’ was approved by the Development and Planning Commission on Wednesday, but with strict conditions on its near-zero energy status. The applicant, Bayside Developments Ltd, had submitted a comprehensive set of documents that addressed the conditions of the outline planning permit, which was granted last year....

25th April 2023

Two women co-opted onto the GSD executive “form part of the strengthening and the regeneration” of the party, Leader of the Opposition, Keith Azopardi, said. On Tuesday morning the GSD announced Professor Daniella Tilbury and Abigail Gomez have joined the currently 28-strong Party Executive Committee that is made up of MPs, elected Executive Members and...

24th April 2023

Theatre Review I sat in Gemma Gallery ten minutes before showtime last Tuesday to the sound of space ship engines. It was semi dark and the digital clock stage centre showed Pluto time or mission elapsed time, whatever it was, it was effective, setting the mood for a thrilling space horror called ‘X’. Alistair McDowall’s...

22nd April 2023

I have just returned from an enjoyable and entertaining musicals/culture filled Broadway journey which culminated with the new production of the 1950s musical Guys and Dolls on my return to London at the Bridge Theatre. Overall, it proved a very special trip complete and overflowing with song and dance. Real belters, tap dancing extravaganzas and...

21st April 2023

The artworks of two Spanish artists, Javier Plata and Yeyo Argüez, is on show in the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition was launched on Wednesday evening by the Minister for Culture, Dr John Cortes, alongside the artists and curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, Gino Sanguinetti. The well attended launch saw both rooms in the...

20th April 2023

Gibraltar's historic O’Hara’s Battery has had a facelift in recent days thanks to a dedicated team of military veterans and civilians from the UK who are working tirelessly to restore the landmark. The team is working under the expert eye and guidance of Peter Jackson from the Gibraltar Heritage Trust. The team, made up of...

19th April 2023

The future of Girlguiding in Gibraltar was brought into question on Wednesday after Girlguiding UK announced it will end overseas operations as from September 1. In a statement, Girlguiding UK cited concerns about risk management and its “future ability to run an overseas operation in 36 countries and territories across the world, each with separate...

19th April 2023

The GAAA hosted its annual International Half Marathon with Arnold Rogers taking top spot in a race that took runners through a 21km course through Gibraltar’s roads early on Sunday morning. The early start ensured that runners would not have to handle Sunday morning traffic and would not have the Spring sun beating down on...

19th April 2023

The Gibraltar Government on Tuesday defended its record on heritage, citing multiple projects and initiatives over the past 12 years as it dismissed GSD criticism accusing the government of “general disinterest and apathy”. In a statement ahead of World Heritage Day on Tuesday, the GSD’s Damon Bossino had said it was “perplexing” that heritage sites...

19th April 2023

It’s not every new Police Officer whose previous jobs include Beauty Therapist (twice), Prison Officer, Airline Flight Attendant and Mental Health Support Worker. And it’s not every Police Officer who starts their basic training when they are 49 years old. Detective Constable (DC) Caroline Gough fits all these descriptions. Mother-of-two, Caroline is now in the...

18th April 2023

There’s been a lot of talk about Gibraltar and language recently. Articles have appeared in The Times and El País, unfortunately signalling the decline of Llanito. It hasn’t been a sudden spiral towards possible extinction. Many have pointed out to globalisation, streaming services, our continued obsession with US media and lifestyles, the unwillingness to consider...

17th April 2023

Main Street traders are approaching the busy summer season with caution, with businesses still recovering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and facing the twin challenges of continued Brexit uncertainty and the impact of the rise in the cost-of-living. Change is afoot and while some view it as the end of an era, others...

17th April 2023

Book review by Rebecca Calderon “Why is the grafted mango the most delicious? Why is the blended tea the most expensive? Because they are a fusion of two distinct species.” Words of the Chakradharpur branch of the Anglo-Indian association, 1930. Imperialism, Colonialism and Empire had many lasting consequences, not least that of the millions of...

17th April 2023

Local singer, song writer and musician Karima, known as Rima, is attracting a global audience with hundreds of views on YouTube and thousands of streams on Spotify. Her style is reggaeton, afrobeat with the vocals in Spanish, and she sings songs she has written herself, something she started doing at the age of six. She...

14th April 2023

Two local patients have been affected by NHS worker strikes in the UK, the Gibraltar Health Authority has confirmed. Some 47,000 junior doctors across the NHS have staged four-day walkout in the dispute with the UK Government over pay. The strike action, which is today in its fourth day, has seen hundreds of thousands of...

14th April 2023

Chief Inspector Paul Chipolina of the Royal Gibraltar Police has returned to Gibraltar this week after graduating from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Academy. CI Chipolina completed the 10-week professional development programme for middle and senior law enforcement officers which ran from January to March of this year. The FBI National Academy...

12th April 2023

The Gibraltar Government and the GSD have ramped out their outreach programmes in the run-up to a general election that has yet to be called, with both the GSLP/Liberals and the opposition party putting community engagement at the heart of their pre-election strategies. Early on Tuesday, the GSD announced the launch of its “District Wednesdays”...

12th April 2023

On the deck of the Götheborg of Sweden, a replica ship that sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1745, a group of enthusiasts listened last weekend to stories not only of that ill-fated journey, but of the ship’s history and how the replica came to be. The Götheborg sailed into Gibraltar last Thursday and has been...

11th April 2023

Salvors working on the wreck of the OS35 redeployed a boom on Sunday after several days of shoreline clean-up operations to remove residual oil released during heavy swells that further damaged the ship’s structure last week. Beaches were closed in the early part of the Easter break as clean-up teams removed oily sand and monitored...

11th April 2023

Some 12 students from Chiba University in Tokyo were in Gibraltar for an intense, fully immersive, three-week English language course offered by the University of Gibraltar. During this time the students were not only able to improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, but also learn about Gibraltar and its surrounding areas. The course...

8th April 2023

Catalan Bay, Little Bay and parts of Sandy Bay have been re-opened to the public following a clean-up operation after residual oil from the wreck of the OS35 washed ashore in recent days. Parts of Sandy Bay remain cordoned off to allow clean-up teams to continue work in these areas. The decision to reopen the...

6th April 2023

The clean-up operation on the east side of the Rock continued on Thursday morning after rough weather a day earlier caused further damage to the wreck of the OS 35, releasing residual oil into the sea. Globules of thick fuel oil washed up on the beaches in Catalan Bay and Sandy Bay and on the...

6th April 2023

In a pre-climate change world, I would have planned that, to travel in northern Spain in mid-March, I would have required layers of warm clothing and rain wear too and I would have been right. Nevertheless, recent warm weather spells saw a group of sixty three travelling Yanitos of a certain age ditching anoraks, scarves...

4th April 2023

By Maria Jesus Corrales Last January, Juan Tocón passed away at the age of 91. He was the last resident of the village of Cucarrete, a hamlet that was raised at the beginning of the 19th century. Sitting 12km from Los Barrios and on the crossroads with the San Roque-Medina Sidonia road, every house in...

4th April 2023

I spent Saturday morning down an online rabbit hole. The good sort, where I maybe didn’t read a few chapters of a book, but at least I didn’t spend the time scrolling through videos of animals falling over. I can’t remember what prompted it, but I ended up finding out there is a 1938 French...