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3rd April 2022

A senior European Commission official hinted on Sunday that negotiations on a UK/EU treaty for the Rock’s post-Brexit relations with the EU could extend beyond Easter week. During a visit to the Guardia Civil headquarters Algeciras, Margaritis Schinas, the Commission vice president responsible for promoting the European way of life and whose remit cover sensitive...

2nd April 2022

Working as a team – journalist and photographer - on assignment, requires faith in the reporter or photographer being able to see the story – the headline news - at the same time. Trust in their own, and your ability, to deliver what is needed to make the front page. That is paramount. I have...

2nd April 2022

Technology company WISeKey is set to launch a secure gateway to the metaverse from Gibraltar, in a bid to see the Rock become a major player in this burgeoning new tech sector. The metaverse is a virtual reality world, with top tech companies globally racing to create and launch their platforms. La Linea-born businessman and...

1st April 2022

Clubhouse Gibraltar founder, Emily Adamberry Olivero, has retired from her post as the charity’s executive director as she goes behind the scenes to take up the lead role as Chair for the charity’s Board of Directors. Before stepping down, there were two milestones she hoped to reach while still involved in the day-to-day running of...

1st April 2022

Calpe House received the Gibraltar Award at a reception at Gibraltar’s ‘home away from home’ on Wednesday afternoon, with the Governor Vice Admiral Sir David Steel presenting it to chairman of the trust, Albert Poggio. Also present was the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar representative to the UK, Dominique Searle, directors of the trust Ian...

31st March 2022

The Earl and Countess of Wessex will visit Gibraltar in June to see the Royal Gibraltar Regiment parade its new Regimental Colours on home soil. Prince Edward, the Queen’s youngest child, confirmed the trip as he presented the colours at a ceremony in Windsor Castle on Thursday. The colours had first been approved by the...

30th March 2022

Members of the Gibraltar Regiment attended a reception held in their honour by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, at his residence in Parliament on Tuesday evening. Guests dined on canapés that were influenced by Sir Lindsay’s roots as a proud Lancastrian, with the House of Commons chefs preparing items such...

30th March 2022

By Laura Elston, Tony Jones and Catherine Wylie, PA The Queen has rallied to join close family, friends, foreign royals and hundreds of charity workers in remembrance of her beloved husband the Duke of Edinburgh at a poignant memorial service. Front and centre of the high profile occasion was the Duke of York, despite Andrew...

30th March 2022

It’s often said that neighbourhood policing is the bedrock of British policing. And that’s no different in Gibraltar, where a team of hardworking community police officers are striving to make life better and safer for everyone on the Rock. They are often the familiar, friendly face of the force and work closely with community leaders,...

29th March 2022

Shania Robba, the only female nominee for this year’s GBC Sports Award rose above her competitors to claim the main award. The 20 year old footballer who has broken new ground for female footballers on the Rock, this year reaching the BT Sports Ultimate Goal finals and scoring goals for Gibraltar at international level was...

28th March 2022

Students from Westside School were invited to Devil’s Tower Camp on Monday to get an insight into life as a Royal Gibraltar Regiment soldier. During the four-hour event, which was set up by the Youth Service Programme and Westside School, the teenagers met the Royal Gibraltar Recruitment Team who gave them an introduction and safety...

28th March 2022

By Jackie Anderson Gala Night glittered on Saturday evening. Not just the audience and participants, who usually brush up beautifully for a night of top performances and the award ceremony. This year, appropriately perhaps, coming as it did hot on the heels of International Women’s Day, it was the girls that glittered, lighting up the...

28th March 2022

Eight-year old Vladislav and his family have swapped their idyllic, rural life for one housed alongside other refugees with views of the Rock across the Bay of Gibraltar. Vlad, his mother Angelica, and his grandmother, Svetlana, arrived in Algeciras last week, making a hostel converted for the use of refugees their temporary home. They managed...

28th March 2022

Local artist Karl Ullger has been selected for the second round of the Jackson Painting Prize, an international competition judged by leading figures in the contemporary art world. Two of Mr Ullger’s artworks have proceeded to Round 2: Longlist Round, with the competition whittled down from 8949 artists to 400. The Jackson’s Painting Prize competition...

25th March 2022

By Tom Pilgrim, PA The former king of Spain faces a civil claim at the High Court in London over allegations he caused an ex-lover “great mental pain” by spying on and harassing her, after he lost a bid for immunity. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, a Danish businesswoman, is seeking damages for personal injury over the...

23rd March 2022

The ‘Artists for Peace’ exhibition was launched on Monday night at the Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery by the Minister for Culture, Dr John Cortes. Some 140 works of art have been donated by local artists for auction in a bid to raise funds for Ukrainians displaced by war. Among those present at the launch were two...

21st March 2022

This week Gibraltar will mark two years since the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed. But even as the Rock gradually returns to normality, the Director of Public Health has a clear message: Don’t throw away your masks just yet. In the space of two years, Gibraltar has seen its streets come to a standstill as the...

18th March 2022

Natalio - Nathaniel Arthur Langdon, Surveyor and Municipal Engineer, was well known for his architectural forms, landmarks, open spaces and places of recreation and leisure, enclosed spaces for religious worship, social gatherings and public entertainment. Starting his Articled Pupillage in 1930 in the Civil Service with the then City Engineer, by 1959 he would eventually...

18th March 2022

Budding photographers from the Gibraltar College spent Thursday morning honing their skills in the Commonwealth Park with Leslie Linares from the Photographic Society. The outing was part of a two week programme organised as part of the Youth Arts Jamboree. One person learning how to use a camera was Sean Garcia. “It’s a fun idea....

18th March 2022

“We eloped”, declared the newlyweds. Love Island’s Sam Bird and MTV reality star Kailah Casillas tied the knot in Gibraltar’s registry office earlier this month. “We’d never been to Gibraltar but it seemed like the perfect place to go to, where cultures come together and to get married inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono,”...

18th March 2022

They had nothing to play for, or that is what anyone would have thought with both teams entering their final match and with no chance of playing for the title. Yet there was a lot to play for between Bavaria and Costa Nets. Moreso for Bavaria whose chances of bidding for the title might have...

17th March 2022

Over 300 attendees were able to engage virtually with 12 new businesses set up by students taking part in this year’s Young Enterprise competition that was launched online on Monday. For the first time in the 13 years when it was first launched, students from Westside School, Bayside School and the Gibraltar College, presented their...

16th March 2022

The MoD held a Blood Donation Drive at the Princess Royal Medical Centre (PRMC) in Devil’s Tower Camp on Wednesday morning, in support of the GHA. “We are doing a blood drive for the GHA to help them out because we see that they have advertised that they need blood donations, and so far we...

16th March 2022

Charlie Langdon has described his late uncle Natalio Langdon as a “one man band”. Someone who would go it alone as an architect, an engineer and interior designer. Yet he was not an architect by profession but a municipal engineer - a surveyor, who made an enormous contribution to the Rock’s city landscape between 1930...

16th March 2022

Gibraltarian journalist Hector Licudi pulled no punches in his 1929 novel Barbarita. The book, written in Spanish and published in Spain at a time when cross-border relations were fluid and Spanish was the dominant language in Gibraltar, was laced with eroticism and recounted with more than a hint of autobiography the adventures of Licudi’s alter-ego,...

16th March 2022

A Gibraltar Irish Business Network has been set up on the Rock with the intention of supporting networking and business opportunities for professionals in Gibraltar with an Irish connection. To kick off its launch, an event will be held in O’Reilly’s on St Patrick’s Day to give people an opportunity to learn more about the...

16th March 2022

The GHA on Wednesday launched a poster and social media campaign with a message of “there is no excuse for abuse”. This campaign comes in support of the GHA’s zero tolerance policy towards aggressive language and behaviour directed towards staff and patients. “The campaign highlights the very real impact that aggressive language and behaviour has...

16th March 2022

Gibraltarian film editor Lesley Posso attended the BAFTA awards on Sunday, as part of the team nominated for the British Short Animation award. Miss Posso had edited the comedy horror animation film ‘Night of the Living Dread’, which was nominated alongside ‘Affairs of the Art’ and the winning film ‘Do Not Feed the Pigeons’. The...

16th March 2022

The Mayor, Christian Santos, hosted a reception in the Mayor’s Parlour for the Scouting and Girlguiding organisations in Gibraltar. A diverse group of people of all ages attended, including present Commissioners Marie Bocarisa and Mark Rodriguez, leaders, members and volunteers. Mr Santos praised the leaders who give of their time selflessly and voluntarily to ensure...

14th March 2022

by Jonathan Pizarro Taking up an entire back wall of the Guildhall Art Gallery in London, is an enormous painting entitled The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782. On a list of things to do when coming to this city, it’s probably not very high up on anyone’s priorities. I’m going to...