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23rd November 2021

Chinese Paralympian Jingkun Xu is in Gibraltar with his boat ‘China Dream’ as he prepares to embark on a long challenge to qualify for the Vendée Globe in 2024. This solo race is one of the most famous sailing races and is billed as an extreme challenge for sailors. But Mr Xu, 32, who lost...

23rd November 2021

By Sam Blewett and Amy Gibbons, PA Political Staff The Pope has praised Sir David Amess’s years of “devoted public service” in a message read at a Westminster Cathedral service for the Conservative MP who was killed while serving his constituents. In the message to the Requiem Mass, Pope Francis called for mourners’ resolve to...

23rd November 2021

The stars came out in force to raise money for mental health in Gibraltar on Wednesday evening as sponsors and supporters came together for a night of food, drinks and live entertainment on the Sunborn. The event ‘Evening with the stars’ was organised by Jenny Roberts the founder of the charity Homeless Worldwide, a charity...

22nd November 2021

Lincoln Red Imps kept their league leaders position intact but only after being forced to do it the hard way against a Ten-man Glacis team on Sunday. The latter were forced to play with ten men for close to an hour after keeper Valades was to leave Kike reeling in pain on the ground with...

21st November 2021

The PJ Isola Foundation has selected local artworks which will feature in a calendar and will be auctioned off for charity next year, with Mark Montovio scooping the top prize in the competition. Some 12 finalists in the PJ Isola Foundation competition will see their art work form part of the 2022 Isolas calendar. Last...

21st November 2021

Women’s football in Gibraltar continues to see monumental progress as some players start to get closer to their dreams of professional football. After years in which the sport has been bidding to be treated equally and be given a chance to step forward Gibraltar’s young footballers have started to see the pathway towards trying to...

20th November 2021

Tyre flipping, devil lifts, burpees and even skipping formed part of an intensive personal training session that six members of the RGP endured early Friday morning, all in aid of feeding families in need in Spain. Putting the officers through the course, shouting intense words of encouragement when necessary, was JoJo France, a personal trainer...

19th November 2021

This is a very early edition of Kane and Abel, Lord Jeffrey Archer said to me last Saturday at the John Mackintosh Hall as I handed him my old copy of the book. Having already given his talk and having signed an umpteen number of books by then, I imagined he may have been tired....

19th November 2021

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. The articles will run weekly on Fridays throughout the month of November. If you have diabetes – regardless of what type you have – you are no more...

18th November 2021

The Justice for Carolina action group on Thursday submitted an online petition with over 5,000 signatures to the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, at No.6 Convent Place. This was also submitted to the Attorney General, Judicial Services Commission and to the Governor of Gibraltar, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel. Attached with the petition was a cover...

18th November 2021

After reaching quarter final stage, Gibraltarian chef Nico Fitzgerald left the BBC One TV show MasterChef: The Professionals. Mr Fitzgerald was selected for the show from thousands of professional chefs, but on Friday his MasterChef journey came to an end after the judges did not select him to continue on. “Leaving the competition at the...

17th November 2021

A charity walk raising almost £2,000 was held last Sunday, November 14, on World Diabetes Day. November is Diabetes Awareness Month with World Diabetes Day marked every year on November 14, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. In Gibraltar, there are currently 278 individuals living with...

16th November 2021

A Royal Gibraltar Police patrol boat was operating “well outside” British Gibraltar territorial waters in breach of force instructions when it was involved in a fatal collision with a suspicious rigid-hulled inflatable boat in Spanish waters, an inquest heard on Tuesday. Officers on the RGP vessel Sir John Chapple had switched off navigation aids that...

16th November 2021

The question of the existence of Gibraltarian literature was raised at Literature Week during Thursday’s discussion between by Dr Jennifer Ballantine Perera and Trino Cruz. The topic was raised during the 1950s by academic JD Stewart and Dr Ballantine Perera challenged this idea. By World War Two, there were already three pieces of Gibraltarian literature...

16th November 2021

Adult category Runner up The Age of Invisible Monsters by James McNally That the Earth is getting warmer, tawnier, arid and acrid; that icecaps and asphalt melt, seas surge, and skies become stormier, does not preclude those pleasant days felt in more temperate times and climes. Still, we amble over bramble-buried warning signs. The tree-topped...

15th November 2021

Diabetes will continue to rise in Gibraltar unless attitudes change, local charity Diabetes Gibraltar has warned during its awareness month, pointing to growing waistlines and apathy at fault. Diabetes is prevalent locally, with more than 10% of Gibraltar's adult population having Type 2 diabetes, and if uncontrolled the disease can strike a decade off someone's...

14th November 2021

When Gibraltar’s icons and legends of football speak, people tend to stop and listen. Gibraltar’s modern football has few who meet this description and among those few, who even today at forty years of age, has little signs of leaving the field of play, is one player whose goals have ensured the international media stopped...

14th November 2021

The Gibraltar Volleyball Association paid a special tribute to both Sergio Martinez and Anthony Avellano on Friday with a memorial match at the Tercentenary Sports Hall. The match saw some 70 individuals gather, from past and present members of the GVA joining family and friends. Commenting after the match GVA official spokesperson said, “Yesterday was...

12th November 2021

I can only describe my guest this week, and perhaps if you have been a patient of his, you will understand when I say, he is a ‘classic gentleman doctor’. He inspires the utmost respect. He is disciplined and serious, and yet approachable, and in my case, I always felt in safe hands. Before I...

12th November 2021

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. The articles will run weekly on Fridays throughout the month of November. Diabetes can be an exhausting condition. The demands of keeping your blood sugar under control can...

11th November 2021

A covenant that pledges the Royal Gibraltar Police to treat service personnel and their families in Gibraltar with fairness and respect was signed on Thursday. This was signed by Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police, Richard Ullger, and Commander British Forces, Commodore Steve Dainton, in the presence of the Governor of Gibraltar, Vice Admiral Sir...

11th November 2021

A third book in the Alice's Table series by Alice Mascarenhas, former deputy editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle, has been launched this week as part of Literature Week at the John Mackintosh Hall. The book, a collection of the last year of her Saturday columns published weekly in the newspaper, was launched yesterday in the...

11th November 2021

A new book launched this week by Humbert Hernandez has been described by its author as “a slice of our cultural history”. The book ‘A Time Remembered’ is a biography of amateur theatre director Cecil Gomez and his drama group. It chronicles the work of the many Gibraltarians involved in theatre, recitals, television and radio...

11th November 2021

An audience with Rosanna Morales and Justin Bautista hosted by Sophie Clifton Tucker formed part of Tuesday morning’s Gibraltar Literature week currently being held at the John Mackintosh Hall. The two authors talked about veganism. Ms Morales has published a book called ‘Aging in the garden of vegan’ on being vegan and embracing compassionate living...

11th November 2021

The Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, officially opened an exhibition on the ‘Centenary of the City Council’ which has been organised by the Gibraltar National Archives at City Hall. The exhibition commemorates100 years since the creation of the City Council in 1921. “The road to self-government was never a smooth one for Gibraltar,” said...

11th November 2021

Diabetes Gibraltar is encouraging the public to wear blue tomorrow, Friday 12, to raise awareness. Diabetes Gibraltar said it wants to help prevent the next generation of potential Type 2 Diabetes sufferers by raising awareness of this huge local problem, educating and supporting any initiative which might lead to a healthier future. “Type 2 Diabetes...

11th November 2021

As Gibraltar prepared for its next two European qualifier matches against Turkey and Latvia the Gibraltar Chronicle was given an opportunity to put some questions to Gibraltar Captain Roy Chipolina. In his late thirties, Roy Chipolina has become one of Gibraltar’s iconic figures in Gibraltar football. He has lived through the transition period between amateur...

10th November 2021

Hundreds of people marched down Main Street on Wednesday evening in a powerful protest four years after the death of Carolina Lishman, calling for an independent inquiry into the handling of the controversial case. Carolina was stabbed 12 times by her husband Real Lishman in their family home in November 2017 in front of their...

10th November 2021

By Ana Sharma Dr Sam Benady discussed his writing career and historical research spanning decades at Gibraltar Literature Week on Monday evening. Dr Benady was interviewed by former Chronicle Deputy Editor and broadcaster Alice Mascarenhas. Dr Benady, the recent recipient of the Cultural Services’ Lifetime Achievement Award, is ‘one of the first people to write...

10th November 2021

Mark Montovio won the overall prize of the annual Poetry Competition with a Spanish language poem inspired by the tragic circumstances migrants face when crossing into Europe by sea. The annual Poetry Competition, organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services and sponsored by the Gibraltar Chronicle, attracted a total of 184 entries this year. Mr Montovio scooped...