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16th May 2022

We have followed Stephen and Bloom in their peregrinations along the streets, bridges, and alleys of Dublin. The day of our story, 16th June, is now over and Bloom has returned home, 7 Eccles Street. He snuggles up in bed beside his wife Molly, kisses her bottom, gives her an expurgated version of his wanderings...

11th May 2022

Local poet Giordano Durante will be launching his latest book on growing up in Gibraltar and its culture this evening. The new book, ‘Nostalgia Elsewhere’, is his third collection of poems and follows his debut collection ‘West’, published in 2017, and an e-pamphlet ‘Machotes’ which, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was never formally launched and...

6th May 2022

The Alameda Gardens will be celebrating their two macaque species at the Wildlife Park and the 21 other species of macaque around the world. On Sunday the team at the Wildlife Park will have experts in the field available to talk about the Barbary macaques in Gibraltar and they will be raising awareness of the...

6th May 2022

Gibraltar women’s futsal squad enter their last weekend of preparations ahead of next week’s UEFA Women's Futsal Euro Qualifiers at the Tercentenary Hall. The team, with Jamie Bosio at the helm will be looking to go one better than last year where they underlined their place in Gibraltar’s football history by drawing their first official...

19th April 2022

Gavin Garcia, a Gibraltarian artist based in London, has set himself the challenge to create a self-portrait a day for the year 2022. Mr Garcia is now over the 100 day mark, having kept to his word and created a self-portrait a day using a variety of mediums including watercolour, oils, fine liner pens, pencil,...

11th April 2022

For over a month, Larisa Meleshenko has been calling her 80-year-old mother in Ukraine and hearing stories of bombings, looting and fear. Every day, Larisa lives with the stress that her family in Ukraine is witnessing war. Her mother lives alone in Irshansk, but meets with her friends in their late 70s and 80s, and...

6th April 2022

At City Hall, 15 individuals and organisations, from campaigners to life-savers, were awarded for their contributions to the community during the annual Mayor’s Awards held on Tuesday evening. The Mayor of Gibraltar, Christian Santos, conferred the awards in a special ceremony which saw the judging panel, including Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, the Deputy Mayor Carmen...

2nd April 2022

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, an annual initiative that seeks to highlight this lifelong neurological condition that may be diagnosed during early childhood and sometimes later on in life, irrespective of gender, race or socio-economic status. The theme for this year is “Inclusive Education” and is fundamentally linked to last year’s theme, which was...

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...