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27th April 2022

Political messages ahead of Workers’ Memorial Day and May Day this year laid bare stark tension between the Gibraltar Government and the Opposition on the challenges facing public and private sector workers against the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty and Gibraltar’s battered public finances. While the Gibraltar Government focused on the importance of Workers’ Memorial Day...

24th April 2022

Europa 2-3 St Joseph A comeback in the final minutes of the second half saw St Joseph secure their third place in the table after beating Europa 3-2. Just three minutes from kick off Europa saw their first real chance as a corner header rose over the bar. Just two minutes later a shot from...

24th April 2022

By Ana Sharma Aspiring fashion designer Lauren Hernandez is a master's student at the London College of Fashion who wants to make menswear interesting, yet wearable and sustainable. Ms Hernandez has been interested in fashion since she was a teenager studying GCSE Textiles in Westside School, then taking lessons with well-known local designer Dorcas Hammond...

24th April 2022

By Lt Col (Rtd) F Brancato Last Friday, 15 April the film “Operation Mincemeat” went on general release in cinemas around the UK. Based on Ben Macintyre’s 2010 history book of the same name and starring such well known actors as Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen; it tells the true story of the successful British...

22nd April 2022

When travel links between Gibraltar and Morocco shut down due to Covid-19, married couple Hamza Ghailan and Abir Halhoul were torn apart, each left stranded on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Now, two years on, the reunited couple are joyful travel links have been reinstated. Like them, many others sitting in the Cruise...

22nd April 2022

There are a million things I could have spoken about to my guest this week. Most of us know him as a union man. I have interviewed him on many occasions mainly on union issues. He began his working life in the dockyard where he would soon be delving into union matters. In 2019 after...

22nd April 2022

Residents of Catalan Bay have highlighted their concerns with regards to the marina in the proposed Eastside development, the Environmental Impact Assessment of which will be discussed at a meeting of the DPC today. The development by TNG Realty (Eastside) Limited is the only one on the agenda for the Development and Planning Commission this...

21st April 2022

The next lecture in the Gibraltar National Museum’s series will explore the world of sea birds around the globe. It will be presented by Dr Keith Bensusan today [April 21] at the John Mackintosh Hall at 7 pm. Entry is free. Dr Bensusan is Director of the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and General Secretary of the...

21st April 2022

The Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce warned of an uncertain future as the local retail, catering and tourism sectors have begun their recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the past six years, Brexit and the global pandemic have gone hand in hand to create an economic future that “remains far from certain”, the Chamber said in...

19th April 2022

A plaque commemorating Gibraltar’s role in support of British forces during the Falklands war was unveiled at Ragged Staff Gates on Tuesday, during a ceremony that underscored shared bonds between the Rock, the UK and South Atlantic islands. The ceremony coincided with the 40th anniversary of the day the SS Uganda sailed from Gibraltar after...

18th April 2022

With a thirst for knowledge and a love for just observing Morris Figueras has a passion for bird watching not only because it brings him joy but also because it honours the memory of his “bird partner” his first cousin, Lee Figueras, who passed away at the age of 17 in 1995. “On my last...

18th April 2022

Local artist Geraldine Martinez have been exhibited an New York based online exhibition called the ‘Healing Power of Color’. Ms Martinez had been doing some research on art galleries with an interest in environmental themes and came across the Healing Power of Art and Artists who were organising the exhibition. “The theme of the online...

18th April 2022

The Waste Land reflects the political background of the post First World War period. A sense of collapse and chaos pervades the poem. The most salient historical and political aspects are: the disintegration of the Prussian monarchy, the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the turmoil unleashed by the Russian revolution. On a personal level, Eliot...

17th April 2022

By Geraldine Scott, PA Political Correspondent The Archbishop of Canterbury has misunderstood the aims of the Government’s plans to send migrants to Rwanda in criticising the new policy, a Cabinet minister has said. Plans announced by ministers this week have been deemed ungodly by religious leaders, with Justin Welby claiming sending migrants to the African...

17th April 2022

By Geraldine Scott, PA Political Correspondent The Government’s policy to send migrants to Rwanda would not stand up to the scrutiny of God, the head of the Church of England has said, as it was confirmed the Home Office’s most senior civil servant has concerns about the value for money of the scheme. An exchange...

13th April 2022

Septuagenarians Robert (Bobby) and Ana Maria Gomez will leave the Rock on Sunday morning marking the start of their epic 1,000 miles (1,609km) walk from Gibraltar to the north of Spain in a bid to raise funds for GHITA. The 1,000 mile walk is from Gibraltar to Santiago de Compostela and following on to the...

12th April 2022

Action on Poverty and Equality Rights Group have highlighted concerns from the community over the change to prescriptions, which will see medication of low clinical value no longer on offer. In a joint statement the groups said they have been inundated with calls regarding the change, and they have contacted the Government to express their...

12th April 2022

Beryl Zammitt will close the chapter in the book of her life today as she retires from her role as a librarian in the John Mackintosh Hall Library after 28 years of dedicated service. An emotional moment was had between her and the CEO of Gibraltar Culture Services, Seamus Byrne, who clearly did not want...

12th April 2022

CFG Media - The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has confirmed that the 2026 Commonwealth Games will be hosted by the State of Victoria in Australia.  The announcement follows a successful exclusive dialogue period between the CGF, Commonwealth Games Australia (CGAus) and Victoria, where an exciting proposal to stage the major multi-sport competition across the State...

12th April 2022

Action 4 Schools has been sponsoring hernia operations in Sierra Leone, enabling a nine year old girl to receive an operation on her umbilical hernia. Aminata, not her real name, is one of many children suffering from an umbilical hernia in the country where the condition is very common due to low birth weight and...

11th April 2022

Three weeks into the war, Julia Vaskovych was adamant to stay by her husband’s side, but he told her to leave him in Ukraine, flee to Gibraltar and find a safe home for their three-year-old son, Egor. After weeks of living in stress, fleeing her home in Kyiv for a small village, hiding at night...

10th April 2022

Spring is in the air, flowers are in bloom and so is the GEMA art gallery with the latest exhibition carefully curated to showcase some of the art works in the collection that embrace that theme. In the last vault of the GEMA art gallery, at Montagu Bastion on Line Wall Road, hang the works...

10th April 2022

Joe Garcia, the editor of Panorama and a prominent Gibraltarian journalist for over five decades, has died at the age of 84. During his long career Mr Garcia, the father of Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, bore witness to defining moments in Gibraltar’s modern history and was a staunch defender of the right to...

8th April 2022

PossAbilites have filed an outline planning application with the Town Planner for internal works and alternations to create a Special Educational Needs (SEN) Support Facility on the site of the former St Martin’s School. They are also seeking permission to dismantle external portacabins. The design and access statement, prepared by architects Orfila, said the brief...

8th April 2022

Johnny Bugeja is a photographer. After working in the MoD for most of his life today he recognises he should have always been behind the camera. But the reality is, that Johnny, the most connected man I know, and not just in the media – throughout Gibraltar - would not be the same person he...

7th April 2022

The GSD on Thursday unveiled its three-pronged pathway to transparency, standards and value for money in getting Gibraltar’s public finances “back on track” and rebuilding the taxpayers’ trust in Government. Speaking to reporters in their College Lane headquarters, GSD leader Keith Azopardi and shadow minister for public finances Roy Clinton said that, if elected to...

5th April 2022

For local artist Martin Gonzalez boats and art come hand in hand. Mr Gonzalez is exhibiting his works in the Fine Arts Gallery and he spoke to Chronicle reporter Eyleen Gomez prior to the launch. A passion for boats that started at the age of four will be visible to all when artist Martin Gonzalez...

5th April 2022

The Gibraltar FA have today announced that Technical Director Desi Curry will step down from his role as the Gibraltar FA’s Technical Director by mutual consent on 30 April 2022. “Mr Curry has decided that now is a good time to move on and allow the Gibraltar FA to pursue the development of Youth and...

4th April 2022

The Gibraltar Government announced a ministerial reshuffle on Monday that will see Albert Isola take on the health portfolio as Samantha Sacramento assumes oversight for a number of regulatory functions including a new Anti-Corruption Authority. The reshuffle will also see Steven Linares, a former union official, take responsibility for industrial relations. In announcing the reshuffle...

4th April 2022

The Office of the Deputy Chief Minister, in collaboration with The Parasol Foundation, filed a masterplan for refurbishment of The Mount. The scheme, drafted by project director Carl Viagas, was approved at a recent meeting of the Development and Planning Commission, which also cleared phase one of the plan. Eyleen Gomez looks at the detail....