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10th July 2022

The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) is celebrating the 130th anniversary of SSAFA nurses, midwives, and health visitors supporting Armed Forces families across the world. Established in 1892 and known back then as the Alexandra Nurses, they provided professional care to the wives and families of soldiers and sailors in garrison and seaport...

8th July 2022

Have you ever wondered how fortunate we are to live in a small community where we know people in many different capacities – wearing a myriad of hats? Most people stay in touch with a handful of friends but our handful extends to two hands and a whole school year of acquaintances. And then there...

8th July 2022

Emily Adamberry Olivero and Joseph Acris both received the Governor’s Award for Merit on Thursday at the Convent, for their service to the local community. Ms Adamberry Olivero, was recognised for services to mental health and the civil service and Mr Acris was recognised for services to the Gibraltar International Airport and the travel industry. ...

8th July 2022

Last December, during an interview in his office in The Convent, the Governor, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel, described how he had been “bowled over” by the scale of the UK team working on the negotiation for a UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar. He spoke of “50 or 60” people in London working closely with Gibraltar...

7th July 2022

Marine biologist and co-founder of The Nautilus Project, Lewis Stagnetto, has taken part in a new podcast series called 'Voices from the Ocean' in collaboration with Mission Blue and alongside Sylvia A. Earle. Mission Blue is a non-profit organisation that inspires action to explore and protect the ocean and Ms Earle is its founder, an...

7th July 2022

By David Hughes, PA Political Editor Boris Johnson is quitting as Tory leader after ministers and MPs made clear his position was untenable. He will remain as Prime Minister until a successor is in place, expected to be by the time of the Conservative Party conference in October. A No 10 source said Mr Johnson...

7th July 2022

By David Hughes and Dominic McGrath, PA Boris Johnson’s refusal to accept that he has lost the trust of Conservative MPs has triggered another wave of ministerial resignations. Brandon Lewis quit his Cabinet post as Northern Ireland Secretary, telling the Prime Minister the Government requires “honesty, integrity and mutual respect” and it is “now past...

6th July 2022

Manchester 62 FC Club will this Thursday announce an official partnership between Manchester 62 FC and The Gibraltar Alzheimer's & Dementia Society in what the club says will see them “join the GADS’s fight to spread awareness and provide funding support for research against the Alzheimer's disease.” The announcement comes after the club also announced...

6th July 2022

By Sam Blewett and David Hughes, PA Political Staff Boris Johnson has been told by Cabinet ministers that he should resign, after support for his leadership collapsed at Westminster. The Prime Minister was in No 10 on Thursday night, where Cabinet ministers told him he had lost the confidence of the Tory party and could...

6th July 2022

MUSIC Review with Joe Adambery Alex Vallejo launched his new CD offering ‘I’ll see you soon’ last weekend at the Inces Hall in a spectacular concert of guitar wizardry the likes of which we have not seen here in a while. The charismatic guitar prodigy fronted his own band, made up of his long time...

4th July 2022

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo took the GSD to task on Monday for what he termed its “tabloid economics” and “frankly despicable innuendo” during last week’s budget debate. During an address to Parliament lasting well over four hours, Mr Picardo rejected GSD claims he had mishandled Gibraltar’s public finances, insisting the revenue-raising measures announced last week...

4th July 2022

by Jonathan Pizarro The flags and the parades and the rainbows and the traffic lights are acts of visibility. Let’s get that out of the way. Every year the same tired ‘Why do we need Pride?’ rhetoric pops its head on social media by people who have never experienced their existence being called into question....

2nd July 2022

The Gibraltar Government is about to launch a new tender for construction of a sewage treatment plant at Europa Point, a long-standing and much-demanded project that it hoped to deliver years ago but has been delayed time and again. Dr John Cortes, the Minister for the Environment, Education and Culture, told Parliament the process was...

2nd July 2022

 The year 1973 is one I remember well.  I was 12 years old. The  Gibraltar Song Festival was in its eighth year having established itself as the top international event on the Rock’s social calendar attracting some of the very best songwriters from the UK and beyond. But that year was special because two of...

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...