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23rd December 2022

The pack of cards Lucia selects at the shop on John Mackintosh Square all have the same picture. A red breasted robin perched on a holly bush by a wooden fence. In the background, a rolling country field blanketed in snow. The white made all the more brilliant by iridescent glitter. The sparkling dots comes...

21st December 2022

Local movie director, producer and screenwriter Ian Serra has just wrapped his latest new feature length film called ‘60 Minutes’ ahead of his film The Mount 2 being released on Amazon Prime. The year 2022 has been a successful year for Mr Serra, fellow director, producer and screenwriter Isaac Barrao and producer Aidan Serra when...

21st December 2022

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo gave a strong hint on Tuesday that he will not call a general election until late in 2023, despite speculation he might go to the polls earlier in the year. The clue was dropped during an exchange on housing with GSD MP Damon Bossino, who had pressed Housing Minister Steven Linares...

21st December 2022

By Jane Kirby, David Hughes and Sam Blewett, PA The Health Secretary has urged the public to “use their common sense” as thousands of ambulance workers and paramedics go on strike in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions. Steve Barclay, who has said he will not move on the issue of pay, said the...

20th December 2022

Change your Energy, Change Your Life (CYE-CYL) and HelpMeLearnAfrica have announced a new initiative, ‘Travel with a purpose’, aimed at local 18 to 21-year-olds. Participants in the project will travel to Ghana for 18 days in the summer of 2023, and help build educational facilities in Ada and travel to nearby villages to explore the...

14th December 2022

The UK, Spain and Gibraltar publicly reaffirmed their commitment to achieving a treaty for the Rock’s future relations with the EU “as soon as possible”, in ministerial statements that also sharpened focus on the complex areas of disagreement that remain to be resolved. The message came in tandem press conferences in Madrid and Gibraltar, the...

14th December 2022

A woman who abandoned her former partner’s 10-week-old puppy after a breakup was jailed for seven weeks by the Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Leila El Yettefi, 26, pleaded guilty to one charge of abandoning the chocolate-coloured Labrador named Finn at Europa Point on a cold and stormy winter night last January. The puppy, which was...

14th December 2022

The Honorary Colonel of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, Lt Col (Retd) Francis Brancato looks at the Gibraltarian soldiers who paid the ultimate price in service to their country. Continuing with the theme of remembrance…the call to arms against the dark forces of totalitarianism in 1939 was taken up by a new generation of Gibraltarians eager...

14th December 2022

“What does it mean to be Gibraltarian?” I was asked this question a few years back, during a project I was taking part in that chiefly addressed Gibraltar’s cultural identity. The truth is I’m no closer to a concrete answer now than I was then, but it certainly got me thinking. As young Llanis forging...

13th December 2022

Rachel Williams, a campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse, recently told her story to a room of 150 guests in Gibraltar. Ms Williams told her harrowing story of her abusive late husband and highlighted how signs began early in their relationship. Ms Williams’s story started when she met her late husband Darren when she was...

13th December 2022

By Luke O'Reilly, PA The UK is set for further snow and ice after the record for the coldest night of the year so far was broken for the second night in a row. The Met Office has extended a yellow warning for snow and ice covering northern Scotland and north east England until noon...

13th December 2022

Eroski supermarket celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday with its owners donating a total of £10,000 to local charities, £1,000 for each year since they opened. Presenting the donations to some of the selected charities at Eroski on Winston Churchill Avenue was Danial Massias. “When we first opened, my father and other late Eroski director...

13th December 2022

A few years ago, I travelled to Los Angeles. The hotel I stayed in was in Downtown LA, far from Hollywood and Beverly Hills and anything you might recognise as being Los Angeles. Downtown LA, I had been told by many people, was actually pretty boring. Or rather, there was no Downtown LA to speak...

10th December 2022

There are several stories I have wanted to tell on these pages. Many of them related to local music, bands and singers. My interest in local music begins at home with my parents who followed the music scene and whose conversations were filled with names which over the years have become familiar to me and...

8th December 2022

REVIEW The idea for Queen’s ‘We will Rock you’ was first discussed by Robert de Niro and the band in 1996. De Niro’s daughter was a huge fan of the band and Brian May with Roger Taylor and comedy writer Ben Elton developed the musical in 2002. Since then over fifteen million people in seventeen...

6th December 2022

The Gibraltar Government has urged the GSD to make constructive proposals to any changes it wishes to see in draft legislation to set up an Anti-Corruption Authority, rather than adopt a “negative and unconstructive” stance. It was reacting after the GSD said the Bill published last week by the Government was “half-hearted and flawed” and...

5th December 2022

Friends of UK charity, Bone Cancer Research Trust, have launched an appeal in a bid to raise funds. The group, based in the UK, have appealed for Gibraltar’s support to raise funds by sending any stamps to them. “We are a group of people throughout the UK who are raising funds independently for this wonderful...

2nd December 2022

This Saturday Benji Borrastero, a young wheelchair bound user, who is among the first active parasports persons in Gibraltar will be attempting to complete an eleven hour ultra-marathon by the forecourt of the ICC. After weeks of training Mr Borrastero, who recently completed his studies in the UK and has returned to Gibraltar to now...

30th November 2022

Former BBC journalist Nick Higham introduced Jess Phillips MP to the gathered audience in the Mayor’s Parlour in City Hall on Saturday. Ms Phillips, Birmingham Yardley’s representative in the House of Commons and Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, had come to the Rock to attend the Gibraltar Literary Festival and talk about her...

30th November 2022

For the ninth year in a row, the EV Foundation will be aiding families in need during the Christmas holidays. Last year the foundation helped over 120 families, including over 300 children, who needed help making ends meet. But the issue continues to grow, and this year as inflation rises and essentials become more expensive,...

29th November 2022

On Saturday afternoon, speakers Lord Peter Ricketts, Dame Mary Beard and Andrew Mitchell MP, discussed their non-fiction books in this year’s Gibraltar Literary Festival. Lord Peter Ricketts described how currently the world is facing more simultaneous crises than at any time since the end of the Cold War and how the international order put in...

29th November 2022

I used to be apologetic about my complete lack of interest in football. I would have an entire conversation planned, about how none of my family were ever much into football and that was passed on to me. Which is all true. But it was always in the tone of deference, because what man isn’t...

28th November 2022

Writers Maggie Gee and Patrick Gale were quizzed by literary journalist Suzi Feay on Gibraltar featuring in their books during a Friday session of the Gibunco Literary Festival in City Hall. Ms Gee was unable to be there in person due to health issues following Covid and joined the others via video link. Mr Gale’s...

28th November 2022

By Elena Scialtiel The grandeur of seventeenth-century Rome, capital of the Papal secular territories and Catholic stronghold in a Protestantism-swept Europe, was resurrected in a lively talk by Loyd Grossman on the last morning of the Literary Festival. The Boston-born author, broadcaster and heyday Master Chef mastermind presented his book about Italian artist Bernini, aptly...

28th November 2022

By Elena Scialtiel Novelist Charlotte Philby detailed fictionalised biography of her paternal grandfather Kim and his complex relationship with Edith Tudor-Hart, during her Literary Festival talk. Former ‘The Independent’ reporter, editor and columnist, Ms Philby spoke about her book ‘Edith and Kim’, which carries the subtitle ‘to betray, you must first belong’, at the Garrison...

28th November 2022

Dr Alastair Santhouse opened the Gibunco Literary Festival at the Garrison Library on Friday morning titled ‘What does it mean to be well’. He is the author of the book ‘Head First – how the mind heals the body’ where he explores the question if being well is in a person’s body or whether it...

28th November 2022

by Jason Kurt Easter “Time-honoured, beautiful, solemn and wise. Noble, sacred and ancient…” Anon I titled this short article with a superhero flavour (replacing Galaxy for Trees), not because I’m a fiction author and writer, but to highlight that we should all be guardians to the trees. The quote above quote is both quaint and...

26th November 2022

Willa Vasquez was the first president of the Gibraltar Fine Arts Association which next year celebrates its 25th anniversary. Back then the hub of the Rock’s artistic community was the John Mackintosh Hall. Willa worked side by side, the then Director of Culture at the Ministry Manolo Galliano, and together they would hang and curate...

25th November 2022

The Gibraltar Government is in talks with Professor Patrick Geoghegan, the Director General of the GHA, with a view to extending his contract, Parliament was told on Wednesday. Prof Geoghegan was appointed in December 2021 on an 18-month contract to lead a process of reform at the GHA. "The Government would like to extend the...

25th November 2022

November marks diabetes awareness month and to raise awareness local charity Diabetes Gibraltar has written articles highlighting the symptoms, treatment and stories of those living with diabetes. Being a mum to a Type 1 child is challenging. At diagnosis you’re thrown right into the deep end. Even with a wonderful diabetic nurse supporting you, nothing...