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17th April 2022

By Geraldine Scott, PA Political Correspondent The Archbishop of Canterbury has misunderstood the aims of the Government’s plans to send migrants to Rwanda in criticising the new policy, a Cabinet minister has said. Plans announced by ministers this week have been deemed ungodly by religious leaders, with Justin Welby claiming sending migrants to the African...

17th April 2022

By Geraldine Scott, PA Political Correspondent The Government’s policy to send migrants to Rwanda would not stand up to the scrutiny of God, the head of the Church of England has said, as it was confirmed the Home Office’s most senior civil servant has concerns about the value for money of the scheme. An exchange...

13th April 2022

Septuagenarians Robert (Bobby) and Ana Maria Gomez will leave the Rock on Sunday morning marking the start of their epic 1,000 miles (1,609km) walk from Gibraltar to the north of Spain in a bid to raise funds for GHITA. The 1,000 mile walk is from Gibraltar to Santiago de Compostela and following on to the...

12th April 2022

Action on Poverty and Equality Rights Group have highlighted concerns from the community over the change to prescriptions, which will see medication of low clinical value no longer on offer. In a joint statement the groups said they have been inundated with calls regarding the change, and they have contacted the Government to express their...

12th April 2022

Beryl Zammitt will close the chapter in the book of her life today as she retires from her role as a librarian in the John Mackintosh Hall Library after 28 years of dedicated service. An emotional moment was had between her and the CEO of Gibraltar Culture Services, Seamus Byrne, who clearly did not want...

12th April 2022

CFG Media - The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has confirmed that the 2026 Commonwealth Games will be hosted by the State of Victoria in Australia.  The announcement follows a successful exclusive dialogue period between the CGF, Commonwealth Games Australia (CGAus) and Victoria, where an exciting proposal to stage the major multi-sport competition across the State...

12th April 2022

Action 4 Schools has been sponsoring hernia operations in Sierra Leone, enabling a nine year old girl to receive an operation on her umbilical hernia. Aminata, not her real name, is one of many children suffering from an umbilical hernia in the country where the condition is very common due to low birth weight and...

11th April 2022

Three weeks into the war, Julia Vaskovych was adamant to stay by her husband’s side, but he told her to leave him in Ukraine, flee to Gibraltar and find a safe home for their three-year-old son, Egor. After weeks of living in stress, fleeing her home in Kyiv for a small village, hiding at night...

10th April 2022

Spring is in the air, flowers are in bloom and so is the GEMA art gallery with the latest exhibition carefully curated to showcase some of the art works in the collection that embrace that theme. In the last vault of the GEMA art gallery, at Montagu Bastion on Line Wall Road, hang the works...

10th April 2022

Joe Garcia, the editor of Panorama and a prominent Gibraltarian journalist for over five decades, has died at the age of 84. During his long career Mr Garcia, the father of Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, bore witness to defining moments in Gibraltar’s modern history and was a staunch defender of the right to...

8th April 2022

PossAbilites have filed an outline planning application with the Town Planner for internal works and alternations to create a Special Educational Needs (SEN) Support Facility on the site of the former St Martin’s School. They are also seeking permission to dismantle external portacabins. The design and access statement, prepared by architects Orfila, said the brief...

8th April 2022

Johnny Bugeja is a photographer. After working in the MoD for most of his life today he recognises he should have always been behind the camera. But the reality is, that Johnny, the most connected man I know, and not just in the media – throughout Gibraltar - would not be the same person he...

7th April 2022

The GSD on Thursday unveiled its three-pronged pathway to transparency, standards and value for money in getting Gibraltar’s public finances “back on track” and rebuilding the taxpayers’ trust in Government. Speaking to reporters in their College Lane headquarters, GSD leader Keith Azopardi and shadow minister for public finances Roy Clinton said that, if elected to...

5th April 2022

For local artist Martin Gonzalez boats and art come hand in hand. Mr Gonzalez is exhibiting his works in the Fine Arts Gallery and he spoke to Chronicle reporter Eyleen Gomez prior to the launch. A passion for boats that started at the age of four will be visible to all when artist Martin Gonzalez...

5th April 2022

The Gibraltar FA have today announced that Technical Director Desi Curry will step down from his role as the Gibraltar FA’s Technical Director by mutual consent on 30 April 2022. “Mr Curry has decided that now is a good time to move on and allow the Gibraltar FA to pursue the development of Youth and...

4th April 2022

The Gibraltar Government announced a ministerial reshuffle on Monday that will see Albert Isola take on the health portfolio as Samantha Sacramento assumes oversight for a number of regulatory functions including a new Anti-Corruption Authority. The reshuffle will also see Steven Linares, a former union official, take responsibility for industrial relations. In announcing the reshuffle...

4th April 2022

The Office of the Deputy Chief Minister, in collaboration with The Parasol Foundation, filed a masterplan for refurbishment of The Mount. The scheme, drafted by project director Carl Viagas, was approved at a recent meeting of the Development and Planning Commission, which also cleared phase one of the plan. Eyleen Gomez looks at the detail....

4th April 2022

Located outside London and envisioned as a hub of Gibraltarian cuisine re-imagined for the fine dining palette, Nico Fitzgerald’s dream of running his own restaurant is set to become a reality. Mr Fitzgerald, 29, has become well-known locally for his appearance in BBC show MasterChef: The Professionals, and more recently the Roux Scholarship, a prestigious...

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...