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21st September 2022

By Daphne Alcantara, GADS Chairperson Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), the international federation of 105 Alzheimer and dementia associations around the world, is today releasing the World Alzheimer’s Report 2022 – Life after diagnosis: Navigating treatment, care and support, which was co-authored by McGill University. This year’s theme, “Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer’s” continues on from the...

17th September 2022

At the end of Gibraltar’s first major exhibition in 2011 on Gustavo Bacarisas called “Life and Legacy”, in the gallery which today carries his name, the then President of the Fine Arts Association Gino Sanguinetti, in an article I wrote for this newspaper, predicted it would be one of those “before and after” exhibitions we...

15th September 2022

Queen Elizabeth II’s life, sense of duty and service were honoured on Thursday during an Anglican Service of Remembrance in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The well-attended service saw churchgoers pay their respects to the Queen, a week after her death and just days before her state funeral. For 70 years as reigning monarch, she was...

3rd September 2022

On Saturday 24 September, Eric Rowbottom will come off his wheelchair at Jew’s Gate and drag himself up the Med Steps to O’Hara’s Battery, a distance of 1.4km and an elevation of 240m. Eric will face a challenge never attempted by someone with his disability. Unable to walk since the age of eight after he...

31st August 2022

By Richard Cartwright Sawdust would be scattered on the shop floor, especially when it rained so as not to slip because of your wet shoes or wellington boots or, on the odd drop of spilt oil from the container you or some other customer just had a refill of, from your customary food shop (la...

30th August 2022

The Gibraltar Government’s archaeologist, Dominic Lopez, and the Minister for Heritage, Dr John Cortes, unveiled a plaque to last week to mark the completion of restoration works at the ‘Gibraltar: A City Under Siege’ exhibition in the Upper Rock nature reserve. The exhibition documents what life would have been like in Gibraltar during the 18th...

24th August 2022

Gibraltar’s lifeguards play a key role keeping the Rock’s beaches and pools safe during the summer. In the second of a three-part series on their work, Eyleen Gomez talks to the young people who shoulder the responsibility. Swimmers taking advantage of a dip in the pools at both the Pavilion and Camp Bay are doing...

23rd August 2022

Gibraltar’s lifeguards play a key role keeping the Rock’s beaches safe during the summer. In the first of a three-part series on their work, Eyleen Gomez talks to the young people who shoulder the responsibility. The rescue of some teenagers on a kayak from Sandy Bay to Catalan Bay was dealt with by experienced lifeguard...

18th August 2022

It was a day for champagne and celebration at the University of Gibraltar yesterday as 25 Marine Science Masters students handed in their dissertations after a gruelling year of hard work. Students this year have focused on everything from bacteria to cetaceans such as whales, Dr Awantha Dissanayake, Head of School (Marine Science) at the...

27th July 2022

Some 20 youngsters received a first-hand experience of life in the Royal Gibraltar Regiment on Tuesday, as the regiment seeks to boost its profile within the community. Members of the regiment’s recruitment team invited The Youth Service to Devil’s Tower Camp to participate in the Youth Outreach Programme. The youngsters, aged between 10 and 17,...

25th July 2022

The vital role of the Rock to the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent was on show on Saturday as the vessel welcomed members of the public while undergoing vital maintenance in Gibraltar. Commander Thomas Knott, Commanding Officer of HMS Trent, described the Rock as an “essential location” for the 92-metre-long vessel, which patrols...

15th June 2022

The second annual March for Life was held by the Gibraltar Pro-Life Movement on Wednesday afternoon with the Royal Gibraltar Police estimating an attendance of 225 adults. The first one was held online due to Covid-19 restrictions. Starting in Casemates, the group made their way up Main Street to John Mackintosh Square holding up banners...

1st June 2022

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list this year acknowledged work carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic and in planning for Brexit, alongside philanthropic and charitable work.  Four individuals from Gibraltar were granted National Honours, including a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, a public servant and a military man.  Kishinchand Alwani was made an Officer of The Most Excellent...

1st June 2022

Gibraltar national league club Manchester 62 announced today the takeover of the club by Michael Anton Monsour, owner of US club Pittsburgh City United. Mr Monsour, who explained that he intended to live in Gibraltar with his family will be taking over the club. In doing so changing it from a members-owned club to one...

22nd May 2022

Gibraltar has in recent years seen a string of past sports professionals visiting Gibraltar. Many as guests for after-dinner talks organized by commercial entities or events-geared-organisers, or as part of promotional campaigns by industries such as the gaming industry. Few actually delivering talks to the grassroots of Gibraltar’s sports and focusing on the adult ‘fan’...

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,...