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11th March 2023

I was researching this week’s Alice’s Table when I came across one of my old Radio Gibraltar programmes from the early 1980s – Musical Rock. I had forgotten I had interviewed the very popular band of the time, Horizon. One of its members would go on to become one of my working colleagues both at...

10th March 2023

By Sam Blewett and Patrick Daly, in Paris, PA Political Staff Britain will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel, Rishi Sunak has announced. The Prime Minister praised the “unprecedented” £478 million (541 million euro) package to fund...

10th March 2023

Some 20 residents in Mount Alvernia have tested positive for Covid-19 this week, with a total of 29 new cases recorded on the Rock. According to Government statistics published on Friday, 20 cases are in Elderly Residential Services and one person remains in the Covid-19 ward in hospital with the virus. A spokesperson for No.6...

10th March 2023

By Elena Scialtiel For International Women’s Day 2023, the Gibraltar Academy for Music and Performing Arts organised an immersive theatre experience that was written, directed, choreographed and performed by women. ‘Womanhood’, which premiered on Wednesday, March 8, at the GEMA Gallery, was an ensemble of three productions (dance, monologue and stand-up/physical comedy) set before a...

9th March 2023

Angela Ferguson has returned from the Republic of the Gambia where she delivered nearly 4,000 bras to women and girls. Bras are expensive in Gambia and not wearing one is seen as a sign of poverty, which increases the risk a female may be sexually assaulted or even raped. Before she Ms Ferguson said: “In...

8th March 2023

The developer behind a proposed 15-storey mixed-use development on Devil’s Tower Road has filed a full planning application after receiving outline permission last October. The development is situated between Devil’s Tower Road and Forbes Road on the former Coviran site. When outline permission was granted six members of the DPC voted in favour in a...

8th March 2023

It was after yet another family visit from the in-laws abroad (our life has been a revolving door of visitors since Noa was born – or as I like to call them, obligate babysitters) that my attention turned once again to our offerings as a jurisdiction, in particular our town centre. Their arrival fell, as...

7th March 2023

Last Saturday 25th February, I was invited to be a featured writer at a workshop for young creative people in a weekend of events organised by Accord Literary and The Rock Retreat, in conjunction with Gibraltar Cultural Services. Which is quite a fancy way of saying I spoke to a group of children via Zoom,...

5th March 2023

Like most heavily built-up areas in the world, Gibraltar has a rat problem. Most of the time we do not see them, but not always. Who can forget the video filmed last year on Line Wall Road, in which rats scurried from bins being emptied of rubbish? Or the other clip of a rat strolling...

4th March 2023

Aged seven, Victor Bossano experienced his first flight. He flew to London for the first time on a BEA Vanguard with his parents. You could say he got the bug and there was no looking back after that. His future was determined. The impact of London was so great he knew he would one day...

1st March 2023

The launch of the Gibraltar National Book Council will mean Gibraltarian writers will no longer be “the poor relation” of Gibraltarian arts, Gibraltarian author Mark Sanchez said on Wednesday. He was speaking at the launch of the Council by the Minister for Culture, Dr John Cortes, on Wednesday, the eve of World Book Day, where...

1st March 2023

The world’s longest-serving lawyer on record, Louis W Triay, KC, died yesterday. At age 94, Mr Triay was a highly regarded barrister, the doyen of the Gibraltar legal community who had served in Government in the 1960s and whose career spanned over seven decades. In 2020, he was awarded a Guinness World Record for the...

28th February 2023

At a press conference in Madrid back in May 2022, Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, and his then Irish counterpart, Simon Coveney, were at pains to stress that UK/EU talks on Gibraltar and Northern Ireland were “two separate negotiations”. “They have nothing in common other than the fact that on the other...

28th February 2023

By Elena Scialtiel Author, cancer survivor and charity fundraiser Sonia Golt is publishing her seventh book this month. ‘Seeking Inspiration’ is being launched today at a poetry recital held at the Mayor’s Parlour, with readings by Sonia and some of her fellow poets and friends. Proceeds are pledged to the Bosom Buddies Cancer Trust, the...

24th February 2023

In Ukraine, Gibraltarian Blythe Victor hunkers down with his family at home, shielding themselves from Russian missiles. All around them, death and destruction. They live in constant fear of bombings as sirens blare at all hours and missiles and kamikaze drones crash devastate homes nearby. From their windows they can see scenes of war. Today...

24th February 2023

Ukrainian refugee Julia Vaskovych spent almost a year in Gibraltar with her son and parents waiting for the news of peace, a hope she continues to hold on to tightly. Julia had to return with her family last December to sort out new travel documents after they lived for months in Government supplied accommodation in...

24th February 2023

A year ago today, Larisa Gulrajani's phone rang at 5am in Gibraltar. It was her mother telling her that war had broken out in Ukraine. Every day since then, Larisa calls daily to ask if her mother, who is in her 80s and lives in a village west of Kyiv, is ok. "It's scary," Larisa...

24th February 2023

At the Fine Arts Gallery this week, Inna Komlieva sang meaningful Ukrainian songs about being proud of her home country. It was a touching tribute to Ukraine as the war-torn country today marks a year since Russia invaded. Surrounded by art, she sang and stirred emotion in those watching on. As she sang, she thought...

23rd February 2023

A local man was yesterday jailed for 12 months for punching, spitting, and holding a knife against a woman’s throat. Kaylan Scaniglia, 23, of Moorish Castle Estate, was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, threats to kill, common assault and criminal damage after a trial. In the early hours of July 8, 2021, Scaniglia...

23rd February 2023

The Government’s Active Travel Strategy was debated by members of the Development and Planning Commission during Thursday’s meeting. The Minister for Transport, Paul Balban, introduced the plans before his team made a presentation. “The Active Travel Strategy completely falls in line with the massively important climate change strategy,” he said. The intention is that strategy...

23rd February 2023

Before he steps down from the role in the coming days, the GHA’s Director General, Professor Patrick Geoghegan, will deliver an estate strategy and strategic plan for the authority’s development for the next few years. Prof Geoghegan will be leaving his post at the GHA after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month. The...

22nd February 2023

Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, told the Spanish Parliament on Tuesday that negotiators for a UK/EU post-Brexit treaty on Gibraltar are “very close to an agreement”, repeating earlier positive sentiment despite the lack of tangible progress toward a deal. Mr Albares was quizzed on progress in the treaty talks during a session...

22nd February 2023

In Gibraltar, Ukrainian Nadiya Miller grieves for her brother-in-law Volodymyr, who was killed fighting on the front-line protecting his country from Russia’s invasion. On Friday it will be a year to the day that Russia launched a major offensive on Ukraine. She may be miles from her family and the hellish scenes on the ground...

21st February 2023

Ten members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Band travelled to the Falkland Islands for Exercise Tiger Island, where they would join forces with the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Band (PWRR) and deliver musical support on behalf of 3PWRR whilst their battalion were deployed. After travelling to RAF Brize Norton on January 15, the band...

18th February 2023

Nurse, horse-rider, business woman, charity worker, wife, mother and grandmother – our guest this week comes under all those headings. I have got to know her over the years through her work with Rotary, she has been president on two occasions, and remains an active member. If we cast our minds back to the Queen’s...

17th February 2023

A prototype of an electric crypto-mining taxi was shown outside the Sunborn on Thursday morning as part of a presentation for a new business model that could change the way taxis operate in countries around the world. The taxi was created by Etioca, an international company based in Gibraltar that aims to launch an “integrated...

16th February 2023

Final preparations were being made ahead of the annual Gibraltar Model Soldier Society’s exhibition which is set to be officially opened by the Minister for Culture, Dr John Cortes, this evening. Some exhibits are on the world wars, others are more modern. The exhibitors range from people who build details, such as the uniforms of...

15th February 2023

By Sam Blewett, Craig Paton and Laura Paterson, PA Nicola Sturgeon has announced she will stand down as First Minister after eight years, arguing that resigning is the best step for herself, her party and for Scotland. In a shock announcement, the SNP leader told a press conference on Wednesday that she believes it is...

15th February 2023

by Richard Cartwright We’re all well aware about the makeup of our community and from whence we came, some of our ancestors going back more than a couple of hundred years: from the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Menorca, Genoa, Malta, Morocco, and Asia – India, Hong Kong and China –...

14th February 2023

Steven Roberts from the British and International Federation of Festivals, arrived on the Rock to adjudicate the GAMPA Gibraltar Festival of Young Musicians 2023 this week. Mr Roberts has been a music adjudicator since 2001; has sat on the Adjudicators Council and, in 2020, was re-elected for his third term of office to the Board...