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19th December 2022

One recent night at 3am as my mum lay on her deathbed and I dozed on the sofa near her, I opened my eyes to see a hospice nurse from Cancer Relief sitting by her side, gently stroking her hand as he silently watched over her. It was just the three of us and she...

16th December 2022

By Elena Scialtiel A new publication was launched in an intimate gathering at the John Mackintosh Hall on a dark and stormy night last Wednesday, to celebrate the life and times of the Trust’s founder. Featuring an elegant royal blue and gold front cover, with geometric patterns and flourishes reminiscent of Rococo or Arabesque styles,...

15th December 2022

The fourth book in the series of Alice’s Table by Alice Mascarenhas, former deputy editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle, will be launched next week at the John Mackintosh Hall. The book is once again a collection of the last year of Alice’s Saturday columns which are published weekly in the Gibraltar Chronicle. Four years on,...

3rd December 2022

Even now as she prepares to turn 80 this Christmas (on Boxing Day) Bathsheba Peralta still finds excitement when splashing oil paint on a canvas – she remains passionate about her art and creates new works almost every day. Bathsheba is the last of the Serfaty sisters to feature on these pages. To sit at...

1st December 2022

By Norbert Sene, Trustee Friends for Life In Gibraltar, Friends for Life (the HIV/AIDS awareness and support group) will this year once again be distributing free the now traditional Red Ribbons as well as information leaflets together with the Gibraltar Health Authority’s Infection Control Team and the Well Person Unit and the LGBT+ group outside...

11th November 2022

The Peter J Isola Foundation held its 2nd annual five-a-side football tournament recently, raising £2,050 for GBC Open Day. The event took place at Bayside Sports Complex Facilities. The series of matches was once again a fierce and friendly competition with teams from various local companies, including ISOLAS LLP and Fiduciary Group. Each team contributed...

8th November 2022

By Richard Garcia Everybody knows the name John Mackintosh. We use it all the time: when we mention John Mackintosh Square or John Mackintosh Hall. We connect the name with John Ward and Victoria Ward at St Bernard’s Hospital. The old St Bernard’s Hospital had a John Mackintosh Wing. Mount Alvernia and the Jewish Home...

2nd November 2022

Historian Tito Benady was presented with the Ministry of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cultural Awards ceremony held in the John Mackintosh Hall on Wednesday evening. Mr Benady was awarded the accolade due to his dedication to documenting Gibraltar’s history and heritage, which has also earned him an MBE, amongst other accolades. “I have...

30th October 2022

Life in Gibraltar “would cease to exist as we know it” if negotiators fail to reach a UK/EU treaty on the Rock’s future relations with the bloc, Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said this week, even while expressing optimism a deal would be reached. Dr Garcia issued the stark warning during an interview with...

21st October 2022

As the Gibraltar Football League enters its fourth matchday things are now beginning to heat up with every club now having dropped points after just three matches. What had been a low scoring weekend was soon changed by the final match in matchday three with Lincoln Red Imps finding their scoring form and putting ten...

17th October 2022

An exhibition of works by members of the Gibraltar’s Fine Arts Association is currently on display at the Fine Arts Gallery. Within their autumn exhibition, works created at the weekly life drawing sessions are on display in a recreation of the set-up used for the sessions in gallery’s second room. With 40 works of art...

12th October 2022

By Gavin Cordon and Dominic McGrath, PA Political Staff The pound fell again after the Bank of England governor warned its emergency support package for the markets would end on Friday. Earlier, the Bank intervened for the second time in as many days to prevent “fire sales” of pension fund assets, amid the continuing market...

4th October 2022

Last weekend, three Moroccan teenagers boarded an inflatable kayak in Morocco in search of a better life. They had their sights on Spain but when their kayak sank, they found themselves swimming close to Gibraltar after two nights in the water. For two and a half days, the teenagers swam and drifted in the Strait...

29th September 2022

Members of the public had their blood pressure and sugar checked, learnt how to perform CPR and took part in exercise classes, as part of the Gibraltar Cardiac Association’s World Heart Day events. The events held in Piazza and John Mackintosh Square, bid to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by encouraging the public to...

22nd September 2022

A special screening of a documentary which features extensive footage of pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar will be shown in the John Mackintosh Hall this evening, followed by a Question and Answer session with its director, Ran Levy-Yamamori. Mr Levi-Yamamori is back in Gibraltar with his documentary, Bridging Troubled Waters, about The Grind,...

21st September 2022

By Daphne Alcantara, GADS Chairperson Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), the international federation of 105 Alzheimer and dementia associations around the world, is today releasing the World Alzheimer’s Report 2022 – Life after diagnosis: Navigating treatment, care and support, which was co-authored by McGill University. This year’s theme, “Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer’s” continues on from the...

17th September 2022

At the end of Gibraltar’s first major exhibition in 2011 on Gustavo Bacarisas called “Life and Legacy”, in the gallery which today carries his name, the then President of the Fine Arts Association Gino Sanguinetti, in an article I wrote for this newspaper, predicted it would be one of those “before and after” exhibitions we...

15th September 2022

Queen Elizabeth II’s life, sense of duty and service were honoured on Thursday during an Anglican Service of Remembrance in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The well-attended service saw churchgoers pay their respects to the Queen, a week after her death and just days before her state funeral. For 70 years as reigning monarch, she was...

3rd September 2022

On Saturday 24 September, Eric Rowbottom will come off his wheelchair at Jew’s Gate and drag himself up the Med Steps to O’Hara’s Battery, a distance of 1.4km and an elevation of 240m. Eric will face a challenge never attempted by someone with his disability. Unable to walk since the age of eight after he...

31st August 2022

By Richard Cartwright Sawdust would be scattered on the shop floor, especially when it rained so as not to slip because of your wet shoes or wellington boots or, on the odd drop of spilt oil from the container you or some other customer just had a refill of, from your customary food shop (la...

30th August 2022

The Gibraltar Government’s archaeologist, Dominic Lopez, and the Minister for Heritage, Dr John Cortes, unveiled a plaque to last week to mark the completion of restoration works at the ‘Gibraltar: A City Under Siege’ exhibition in the Upper Rock nature reserve. The exhibition documents what life would have been like in Gibraltar during the 18th...

24th August 2022

Gibraltar’s lifeguards play a key role keeping the Rock’s beaches and pools safe during the summer. In the second of a three-part series on their work, Eyleen Gomez talks to the young people who shoulder the responsibility. Swimmers taking advantage of a dip in the pools at both the Pavilion and Camp Bay are doing...

23rd August 2022

Gibraltar’s lifeguards play a key role keeping the Rock’s beaches safe during the summer. In the first of a three-part series on their work, Eyleen Gomez talks to the young people who shoulder the responsibility. The rescue of some teenagers on a kayak from Sandy Bay to Catalan Bay was dealt with by experienced lifeguard...

18th August 2022

It was a day for champagne and celebration at the University of Gibraltar yesterday as 25 Marine Science Masters students handed in their dissertations after a gruelling year of hard work. Students this year have focused on everything from bacteria to cetaceans such as whales, Dr Awantha Dissanayake, Head of School (Marine Science) at the...

27th July 2022

Some 20 youngsters received a first-hand experience of life in the Royal Gibraltar Regiment on Tuesday, as the regiment seeks to boost its profile within the community. Members of the regiment’s recruitment team invited The Youth Service to Devil’s Tower Camp to participate in the Youth Outreach Programme. The youngsters, aged between 10 and 17,...

25th July 2022

The vital role of the Rock to the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent was on show on Saturday as the vessel welcomed members of the public while undergoing vital maintenance in Gibraltar. Commander Thomas Knott, Commanding Officer of HMS Trent, described the Rock as an “essential location” for the 92-metre-long vessel, which patrols...

15th June 2022

The second annual March for Life was held by the Gibraltar Pro-Life Movement on Wednesday afternoon with the Royal Gibraltar Police estimating an attendance of 225 adults. The first one was held online due to Covid-19 restrictions. Starting in Casemates, the group made their way up Main Street to John Mackintosh Square holding up banners...

1st June 2022

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list this year acknowledged work carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic and in planning for Brexit, alongside philanthropic and charitable work.  Four individuals from Gibraltar were granted National Honours, including a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, a public servant and a military man.  Kishinchand Alwani was made an Officer of The Most Excellent...

1st June 2022

Gibraltar national league club Manchester 62 announced today the takeover of the club by Michael Anton Monsour, owner of US club Pittsburgh City United. Mr Monsour, who explained that he intended to live in Gibraltar with his family will be taking over the club. In doing so changing it from a members-owned club to one...

22nd May 2022

Gibraltar has in recent years seen a string of past sports professionals visiting Gibraltar. Many as guests for after-dinner talks organized by commercial entities or events-geared-organisers, or as part of promotional campaigns by industries such as the gaming industry. Few actually delivering talks to the grassroots of Gibraltar’s sports and focusing on the adult ‘fan’...