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1st July 2022

Louis Baldachino, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, yesterday unveiled a sculpture inspired by his experience and named ‘Never Lose Hope’. The piece was created by local award-winning ceramics artist Ermelinda Duarte and now has pride of place in the Primary Care Centre. Mr Baldachino had a message for people who are ill: “Accept you are...

30th June 2022

The Gibraltar Government will this year seek to reform the social security system to address the impact of a growing workforce and ageing population on the long-term sustainability of state pensions, Sir Joe Bossano said in a written budget address. In announcing the plan, Sir Joe – who has Covid-19 and was unable to deliver...

30th June 2022

St Paul’s schoolchildren collectively they raised enough money, £2,500, to fund a well for a school with 600 pupils in Sierra Leone. St Paul’s School, with 300 pupils, has its name on well no 81 in Regent Village in Sierra Leone. Action4Schools who organised the building of the well purposely selected that number for the...

30th June 2022

We are all born to crave, to live with healthy addictions. It's one of the foundational pillars of creation. We biochemically need love, food, water, warmth, shelter, basic necessities, and if one is absent or in short supply, or worse, there is fear and damage. We need to meet those inborn biochemical requirements to avoid...

29th June 2022

In this week's travel feature Shaun Yeo explores caves in Isla Plana, Murcia. There are various flooded caves in Spain, but one that stands out to divers, is the famous ‘Cueva Del Agua’ (Cave of the Water), located in the Mediterranean Coastal town of Isla Plana, province of Murcia. These caves have formed by the...

28th June 2022

Ah, Pride month, where companies eschew their traditional branding in favour of an annual bout of month-long rainbow capitalism. But a rainbow logo alone does not an ally make. Whilst some people use this month to join in with the annual performative display of ‘pink-washing’, others have used their resources to support the LGBTQ+ community...

27th June 2022

In this second article we will follow the same method used in the first one: biographical details about Vallejo’s tormented life interspersed with frequent references to his poetry, especially some of the poems in Trilce. In 1923 Vallejo arrived in Paris where, with the exception of a year or so in Spain, he would live...

27th June 2022

As high levels of skin cancer are recorded annually on the Rock, a dermatologist at the Primary Care Centre, Dr Jose Ferrera, spoke of the need for increased awareness on sun safety. In 2021, the dermatology department at the Primary Care Centre recorded 136 cases of skin cancer from below the neck which required surgical...

27th June 2022

Inside the Sacarello's office in Irish Town, paintings stacked in a tight corridor will be moved to John Mackintosh Hall soon in the hope of finding them a new home. Tomorrow evening Patrick Sacarello will exhibit and sell over 50 paintings from his life-long art collection, featuring works from Gibraltarian and Latin American artists. The...

24th June 2022

w does one talk to a politician and not talk about politics? How does one talk to Sir Joe Bossano and leave politics to one side? This is what I intended when I invited him to join me at Alice’s Table. It would be my longest session yet. Truth be told, politics was touched upon...

24th June 2022

With just over a week before St Joseph football club play their first leg of the Europa Conference league first round qualifiers the club have announced Mike Garlick as their new owner and chairman. Mr Mike Garlick was previously Chairman and majority shareholder of Burnley Football Club - the town he was born and brought...

23rd June 2022

After an intense 21-week programme, the Royal Gibraltar Police’s new recruit class of 17 marked the end of their training with a passing out parade on Wednesday. As the recruits paraded in Central Hall, the Commissioner of Police Richard Ullger underscored the challenging two years the force has faced, which included a process of reform....

23rd June 2022

Caroline Canessa presented her winning design for a Covid-19 memorial, which remembers Gibraltarians who passed during the pandemic, on Wednesday afternoon at Campion Park. The design will now be converted into a full-scale monument that will be displayed at Campion Park. Minister for Culture, John Cortes presented a certificate to Caroline Canessa at Campion Park,...

22nd June 2022

The fearless king Aliath peered down upon his sworn enemies. He watched, aboard his spaceship, as the armies of the galaxy converged around Centris IV. The day of reckoning had come. The rebellion leader, the fearsome warrior Orion, mounted his Galaxy Horse and soared to the front of the fleet. "Today, we will avenge our...

21st June 2022

St Joseph’s Lower Primary School recently held a summer fete to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of the school at South Barracks Road. Year 1 pupils focused on the set up of the barracks and history of the school building, where they were joined by Phil Smith of the Gibraltar Museum who took...

21st June 2022

Freezing…. you're freezing cold and wet. A high-pitched drill rings inside your head. Blue-black water rises and falls, tossing you from its crests to the troughs of hell. Gnarling white teeth snap at you from all directions. A sharp pain is lodged in one of your shoulders - in this flicker of consciousness, you can't...

21st June 2022

Sunday afternoon should have been a moment of celebration for organisers of the EY Padel Tennis Charity tournament. A highly successful two-day event which saw scores of companies involved with their representatives playing out some exciting moments on the court, finished with a muted finale as organisers, players and everyone involved paid tribute to Women’s...

20th June 2022

The Gibraltar College held their Award Ceremony and launched a photography exhibition last week. Students enrolled in the Personal and Social Development course launched an exhibition of their photography at the John Mackintosh Hall on Tuesday. The photographs were taken during the Youth Arts jamboree programme run by Gibraltar Cultural Services in conjunction with the...

20th June 2022

César Vallejo is the quintessentially modernist poet. The emotional rawness of his poetry stretched the Spanish language beyond grammar and lexicon into compelling dissonance and asymmetries, unprecedented and unsurpassed in the history of Hispanic poetry. Before examining some of his works, it would be advisable to have some idea of his life which marked his...

19th June 2022

by Brian Reyes and Maria Jesus Corrales The Partido Popular won a resounding victory in Sunday’s regional election in Andalucia, securing an absolute majority in parliament and keeping the far-right party Vox out of government. In the run-up to the vote, there had been wide speculation that without a sufficient share of the vote, the...

19th June 2022

Tributes have been paid to Lady Marcelle Hassan, who was married to former Chief Minister Sir Joshua Hassan and died on Sunday aged 86. Lady Hassan passed away peacefully with her daughters Marlene Hassan Nahon and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum at her side. “Our mother was the personification of kindness and humility, a woman who made it...

17th June 2022

Former Gibraltar women’s national coach Adrian Parral will be making a return to Gibraltar football, after four years away involved with his US football project as the new head coach of Lions Gibraltar’s men’s senior team. Mr Parral, who also managed the Lions Gibraltar women’s team building it to eventually become the league champions prior...

16th June 2022

This September Eric Rowbottom will leave his wheelchair at Jew’s Gate and climb Mediterranean Steps using his hands to drag his body up in a gruelling challenge in aid of the Special Needs Action Group (SNAG) and the GBC Open Day Fund. Mr Rowbottom, aged 59, contracted polio at eight years old and has since...

15th June 2022

By Flora Thompson and Catherine Wylie, PA Priti Patel said preparation for the next deportation flight to Rwanda “begins now” after last-minute interventions by the European Court of Human Rights led to the cancellation of the initial flight. The Home Secretary said she will “not be deterred from doing the right thing” as Government sources...

15th June 2022

It’s that time of year where I (and many of you, don’t lie) hastily get all work and chores finished in time to plonk myself in front of the television to indulge in a daily episode of Love Island. Oh yes, it’s back—and with it, a couple of newfound insecurities on my part. For those...

14th June 2022

By Felix Alvarez Which is it, then: an endangered economy due to inflation, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and Brexit, with sudden constraints and still unresolved grievances affecting those on Community Care and irredeemably accompanied by belt-tightening all round? Sure enough, spiralling inflation, increasing energy costs, rising interest rates, the threat of recession, and...

13th June 2022

Jacob’s Room was Virginia Woolf’s third novel; it was also her first experimental novel. The novel reflects a tragedy in the writer’s life: the early death of a much-loved brother, Thoby. The long Greek section of the novel is poignant with the memory of Thoby. The family holiday to Greece and Turkey became a nightmare...

13th June 2022

By Giordano Durante The short novel Mis Patios Perdidos is the latest work published by Humbert Hernandez who, since retirement, has written poems and established himself as a prolific fictional chronicler of Gibraltar’s past. Subtitled ‘Memorias de una infancia gibraltareña’, the book opens with Luis Robledo reminiscing on the day of his 75th birthday about...

10th June 2022

More than 1.2 tonnes of rubbish was cleared from the shallower marina waters in front of the restaurants and bars by the Ocean Village and Marina Bay Marinas team as they ramped up the frequency of their rubbish clearance operations. The enhanced rubbish recovery schedule is a result of close collaboration with HM Government of...

10th June 2022

There are many Gibraltarians who have lived away from Gibraltar for many years but have never lost touch with their roots - the place they were born. They carry the Gibraltar flag wherever they go. But even for them the pull to return to these shores is great. A great deal of them will surprise...