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31st March 2022

By Clive Finlayson One of the most frequent remarks expressed by people on the 24th March, 2022, was “I have never seen anything like it”. This was the day when Saharan dust in the atmosphere briefly seemed to turn the world orange in colour. The remark was accurate, these events are unusual and infrequent and...

21st March 2022

World Water Day is tomorrow, March 22, and this year’s theme is ‘Groundwater - making the invisible visible’. World Water Day is an annual United Nations observance, started in 1993, that celebrates water and raises awareness of the two billion people currently living without access to safe water. Groundwater is water found underground in aquifers,...

20th March 2022

Couples across Gibraltar renewed their vows at the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned, with some celebrating over 60 years of marriage. Celebrating 62 years of marriage next September is Arthur and Matilde Hemmi. “I have always been I love with her, always,” Mr Hemmi said. At the age of 17 he met his future...

14th March 2022

An exhibition showcasing the work of Natalio Langdon, surveyor and municipal engineer, titled ‘A Lifetime in Architecture’, officially opens to the public tomorrow Tuesday 15, March, at the Fine Art Gallery. Celebrating his wide-ranging engineering and architectural contribution to the Rock’s city landscape for more than 40 years both in government service from 1930 to...

2nd March 2022

GHITA are holding its annual hearing loss week this year to coincide with World Hearing Day tomorrow on March 3. Reflecting on the past year Mr Triay said that the charity saw a number of positive steps on the Rock with respect to hearing loss. Such as the formation of the Gibraltar Disability Rights Federation...

23rd February 2022

The pallbearer Ordnance Quick Fire 25-pounder gun that carried the remains of Sir Joshua Hassan during a state funeral is now on display at Napier of Magdala Battery, having been donated to the Ministry for Heritage by the MoD. A number of Gibraltar’s cadets were cleaning the gun as part of the work they were...

21st February 2022

Year 6 students at Loreto Convent School went back in time and endured a ‘horribly’ realistic day in the life of a Victorian school child. Both pupils and teachers spent the day dressed in Victorian attire and the pupils participated in a remote Victorian lesson delivered from the Beamish Museum in Durham. Lessons included handwriting,...

9th February 2022

Belinda Origo has opened her first ever solo exhibition this week, despite having decades of experience in a wide spectrum of arts. She has featured in the Chronicle’s calendar and that of the Heritage Trust when her painting for the "View from my window" competition was selected for the month of July, as well as...

7th February 2022

GibTalks is a TED-style conference of talks featuring Gibraltarian speakers reflecting on their experiences and ideas. Stephen Neish reports on the opening session of this year’s conference. Nyreen Llamas: Learning how to fail Don’t fear failure. That in essence was the message contained in an address by Nyreen Llamas that opened the 2022 edition of...

4th February 2022

Today, Friday February 4, is World Cancer Day and this year’s theme is ‘Close the care gap’ which aims to recognise the power of knowledge and challenge assumptions. Locally based charities are working hard every day of the year to bring knowledge, challenge assumptions, help, support and raise awareness. To mark World Cancer Day the...

3rd February 2022

By Health Promotion Department, Public Health. World Cancer Day, marked on February 4 each year, aims to raise awareness of cancer; encouraging its prevention, detection and treatment. Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and remains one of the consistent top three causes of death in Gibraltar. Although significant advancements have been made...

1st February 2022

The Mayor of Gibraltar, Christian Santos, is reminding the public they are invited to submit nominations for the next conferral of the Mayor’s Awards to be held at the end of March. The closing date to receive nominations is Friday, February 4. “The Mayor’s Awards have become a permanent fixture in Gibraltar’s annual civic calendar...

30th January 2022

Local resident Julia Prudzienica turned vegan in August 2020 following an Instagram post her friend shared on animal cruelty. “Before becoming vegan, I think I already had that concern about animal cruelty in industrial farming at the back of my mind but I only properly came to terms with it when I saw an Instagram...

27th January 2022

The Nautilus Project will be holding a World Oceans Day 2022 School Competition with different categories announced. Category 1 is the School Year Group Award. TNP said the year group project must be a joint effort and needs to have been completed within the 2021/2022 academic year. Examples may include (but are not limited to):...

25th January 2022

Dr Keith Bensusan, the General Secretary of GONHS, joined when he was a young passionate eight year old birdwatchers. Years later that passion has not waned and in fact forms a large part of his life with holidays with his partner always having some form of wildlife involved. Dr Bensusan is avid bird lover, who...

24th January 2022

Polar explorer Mike Laird is in Gibraltar to share a lifetime of adventure and a military service in Afghanistan with schoolchildren about bulling, resilience and climate change. Mr Laird is a regular visitor to the Rock due to family and friends living here as well as the ability to carry out some scuba instructor work...

23rd January 2022

In recent years January has become the month where people try a change to their diets and lifestyle, opting for a vegan approach in what is known as ‘Veganuary’. In this series the Chronicle looks at local families, individuals and colleagues who have taken up the challenge. This is the second of a three-part series,...

16th January 2022

In recent years January has become the month where people try a change to their diets and lifestyle, opting for a vegan approach in what is known as ‘Veganuary’. In this series the Chronicle looks at local families, individuals and colleagues who have taken up the challenge. This is the first of a three-part series,...

4th January 2022

A teenager who is on the verge of turning 18 was on Tuesday given a “last chance” to change his life around by the Juvenile Court during a sentencing hearing. The youngster was given two sentences of two months for two separate burglaries, both suspended for a year. That means he will be spared jail...

18th December 2021

Right from the start of his paparazzi days, Juan Carlos Teuma, sold his photographs through the press agencies and filled pages of the Hola magazine, and other well-known magazines and newspapers all around the world. “I wasn’t a paparazzi,” he tells me. “It simply became a way of life.” He had begun taking photographs of...

3rd December 2021

By Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent Shoppers are being urged to support small businesses as they face fresh uncertainty heading into the crucial festive trading period. Organisers of this weekend’s Small Business Saturday have called for a significant show of support and to use the annual event as a chance to recognise the contribution of...

3rd December 2021

By Ian Jones and Catherine Wylie, PA Around one in six adults in Britain think life will never return to normal thanks to Covid-19, the highest proportion since the pandemic began, a new survey suggests. The number is up from one in nine a month ago and one in 10 during the summer. The figures...

2nd December 2021

The GHA marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday with a drive to raise awareness of the disease. HIV remains a major public health issue and in 2020, 37.7 million people globally were found to be living with HIV with a further 1.5 million new infections. The theme of World AIDS Day 2021 is “End inequalities....

30th November 2021

Tomorrow marks World AIDS Day and locally ‘Friends for Life’ a support group for those with HIV/AIDS is raising awareness. Friends for Life together with the Gibraltar Health Authority’s Infection Control Team and the Well Person Unit is this year raising awareness on HIV/AIDS, and is distributing free red ribbons across Gibraltar. Information leaflets and...

18th November 2021

The GHA has marked World Pancreatic Cancer Day today by raising a purple flag at St Bernard’s Hospital and lighting the entrance to the hospital in purple with a view to increase public awareness of the disease, its symptoms and ways to reduce the risk of developing it. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most fatal...

10th November 2021

As part of Gibraltar Literature Week, the Chronicle is publishing book reviews daily. The event organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services includes discussions with local authors live streamed on their Facebook page and talks in schools. Today Melissa Bosano, Head of English at Westside School, shares her book recommendation. What words would you use to describe...

8th November 2021

by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo In his recent Opinion Piece, the Leader of the GSD Opposition, Keith Azopardi, suggested that the truth no longer mattered to me. He is completely wrong about that and so much else. The truth matters to me today as Chief Minister as much as it ever did to me as...

7th November 2021

Table tennis has made its return for the season with both the Basewell leagues and the 2020 Members tournaments underway. The association which saw interest in the sport shoot up following the Island Games continued to see the interest maintained during the main restrictions on sport albeit with difficulties in accommodating its needs due to...

4th November 2021

Local author Sam Benady was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cultural Awards on Wednesday evening at the Sunborn. The event organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services saw Dr Benady recognised for his work and efforts as a writer. “An unassuming and humble individual who is passionate about Gibraltar and its history, Dr Benady...

29th October 2021

This year is the 700th anniversary of the death of the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in 1321. Simply referred to as Dante, this writer and philosopher, is the author of the monumental epic poem ‘Divine Comedy’, a landmark in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of all medieval European literature. Dante also wrote...