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28th March 2022

Eight-year old Vladislav and his family have swapped their idyllic, rural life for one housed alongside other refugees with views of the Rock across the Bay of Gibraltar. Vlad, his mother Angelica, and his grandmother, Svetlana, arrived in Algeciras last week, making a hostel converted for the use of refugees their temporary home. They managed...

28th March 2022

Local artist Karl Ullger has been selected for the second round of the Jackson Painting Prize, an international competition judged by leading figures in the contemporary art world. Two of Mr Ullger’s artworks have proceeded to Round 2: Longlist Round, with the competition whittled down from 8949 artists to 400. The Jackson’s Painting Prize competition...

25th March 2022

By Tom Pilgrim, PA The former king of Spain faces a civil claim at the High Court in London over allegations he caused an ex-lover “great mental pain” by spying on and harassing her, after he lost a bid for immunity. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, a Danish businesswoman, is seeking damages for personal injury over the...

23rd March 2022

The ‘Artists for Peace’ exhibition was launched on Monday night at the Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery by the Minister for Culture, Dr John Cortes. Some 140 works of art have been donated by local artists for auction in a bid to raise funds for Ukrainians displaced by war. Among those present at the launch were two...

21st March 2022

This week Gibraltar will mark two years since the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed. But even as the Rock gradually returns to normality, the Director of Public Health has a clear message: Don’t throw away your masks just yet. In the space of two years, Gibraltar has seen its streets come to a standstill as the...

18th March 2022

Natalio - Nathaniel Arthur Langdon, Surveyor and Municipal Engineer, was well known for his architectural forms, landmarks, open spaces and places of recreation and leisure, enclosed spaces for religious worship, social gatherings and public entertainment. Starting his Articled Pupillage in 1930 in the Civil Service with the then City Engineer, by 1959 he would eventually...

18th March 2022

Budding photographers from the Gibraltar College spent Thursday morning honing their skills in the Commonwealth Park with Leslie Linares from the Photographic Society. The outing was part of a two week programme organised as part of the Youth Arts Jamboree. One person learning how to use a camera was Sean Garcia. “It’s a fun idea....

18th March 2022

“We eloped”, declared the newlyweds. Love Island’s Sam Bird and MTV reality star Kailah Casillas tied the knot in Gibraltar’s registry office earlier this month. “We’d never been to Gibraltar but it seemed like the perfect place to go to, where cultures come together and to get married inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono,”...

18th March 2022

They had nothing to play for, or that is what anyone would have thought with both teams entering their final match and with no chance of playing for the title. Yet there was a lot to play for between Bavaria and Costa Nets. Moreso for Bavaria whose chances of bidding for the title might have...

17th March 2022

Over 300 attendees were able to engage virtually with 12 new businesses set up by students taking part in this year’s Young Enterprise competition that was launched online on Monday. For the first time in the 13 years when it was first launched, students from Westside School, Bayside School and the Gibraltar College, presented their...

16th March 2022

The MoD held a Blood Donation Drive at the Princess Royal Medical Centre (PRMC) in Devil’s Tower Camp on Wednesday morning, in support of the GHA. “We are doing a blood drive for the GHA to help them out because we see that they have advertised that they need blood donations, and so far we...

16th March 2022

Charlie Langdon has described his late uncle Natalio Langdon as a “one man band”. Someone who would go it alone as an architect, an engineer and interior designer. Yet he was not an architect by profession but a municipal engineer - a surveyor, who made an enormous contribution to the Rock’s city landscape between 1930...

16th March 2022

Gibraltarian journalist Hector Licudi pulled no punches in his 1929 novel Barbarita. The book, written in Spanish and published in Spain at a time when cross-border relations were fluid and Spanish was the dominant language in Gibraltar, was laced with eroticism and recounted with more than a hint of autobiography the adventures of Licudi’s alter-ego,...

16th March 2022

A Gibraltar Irish Business Network has been set up on the Rock with the intention of supporting networking and business opportunities for professionals in Gibraltar with an Irish connection. To kick off its launch, an event will be held in O’Reilly’s on St Patrick’s Day to give people an opportunity to learn more about the...

16th March 2022

The GHA on Wednesday launched a poster and social media campaign with a message of “there is no excuse for abuse”. This campaign comes in support of the GHA’s zero tolerance policy towards aggressive language and behaviour directed towards staff and patients. “The campaign highlights the very real impact that aggressive language and behaviour has...

16th March 2022

Gibraltarian film editor Lesley Posso attended the BAFTA awards on Sunday, as part of the team nominated for the British Short Animation award. Miss Posso had edited the comedy horror animation film ‘Night of the Living Dread’, which was nominated alongside ‘Affairs of the Art’ and the winning film ‘Do Not Feed the Pigeons’. The...

16th March 2022

The Mayor, Christian Santos, hosted a reception in the Mayor’s Parlour for the Scouting and Girlguiding organisations in Gibraltar. A diverse group of people of all ages attended, including present Commissioners Marie Bocarisa and Mark Rodriguez, leaders, members and volunteers. Mr Santos praised the leaders who give of their time selflessly and voluntarily to ensure...

14th March 2022

by Jonathan Pizarro Taking up an entire back wall of the Guildhall Art Gallery in London, is an enormous painting entitled The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782. On a list of things to do when coming to this city, it’s probably not very high up on anyone’s priorities. I’m going to...

14th March 2022

In my hand is a supercomputer. Cutting edge technology that can connect me to anyone, anywhere. I’m lost without it now, but when I look back a phone had a very different meaning to me. I hardly used one, just to call and text, until I got my iPhone 5 aged 20. Now it’s essential...

14th March 2022

The GHA on Monday congratulated District Nurses Anne Marie Hemmi and Dominic Roman on their recent retirements, praising their professionalism throughout decades of service to this community. The nurses dedicated 36 and 43 years respectively in service of nursing in Gibraltar. Clinical Nurse Manager Suzanne Romero said: “The District Nurse team is continuously at the...

14th March 2022

By Tony Jones, PA Court Correspondent The Queen has said she hopes the people of the Commonwealth “can draw strength and inspiration from what we share” during these “testing times”. The head of state’s comments were made in her annual message to the “family of nations” released on Commonwealth Day, as many countries continued to...

11th March 2022

Table tennis, now settling into their new facilities at the MUGA at Bayside Sports Complex, saw three of its young prospects take the Basewell Third Division Singles League top spots. This was the first of a series of tournaments played out this week which also saw the Division 2 play-offs played out on Wednesday evening....

10th March 2022

The echo from baggage wheels being shuffled around fill airport terminal buildings again. Staff at departures coffee shops, which were shut during the pandemic, frantically try to serve growing queues of customers. The noise is back. The rush is too. Passengers speed through the terminal in a hurry to get to their gates. Most people...

9th March 2022

Inna Khyzhniak had never really heard of Gibraltar before fleeing Ukraine alone, and only learnt about the Rock after her husband pushed her to leave. Outside St Michael’s Cave yesterday, Inna, aged 28, was joined by six other women and children displaced by Russia’s war on Ukraine. The women and children smiled, a moment of...

7th March 2022

In Latinos bistro overlooking the Cathedral in Main Street, sits Lilia Kaspranova, who just days prior had fled war-torn Ukraine. “It’s a miracle,” her sister Nataliia, who lives in Gibraltar, said. Lilia, aged 25, made the journey alone from Kyiv to Gibraltar as war broke out in Ukraine, a day after the Russian invasion. She...

7th March 2022

The GHA is calling on members of the public to register their interest to donate blood, as part of its Brexit contingency planning to increase blood stock levels locally. The GHA’s blood department is also currently contacting all existing blood donors to begin with apheresis. This is a process where the blood is passed through...

6th March 2022

Royal Gibraltar Police officers have been on an intensive Public Order refresher course at the Buffadero Training Camp. During the training, dozens of officers donned full protective gear for scenarios that simulated real life violent public disorder. The officers were then pelted with missiles and attacked by other officers who were involved in the training....

5th March 2022

Gibraltar ambulances will only be able to transfer routine patients for treatment to Spanish hospitals if they are staffed by GHA employees who live in Spain or by EU nationals, the Government confirmed on Friday, adding it was ‘extremely concerned’ over this new Brexit development. The statement follows questions from the GSD that Gibraltar ambulances...

4th March 2022

Gibraltar will be stepping down from its current Covid-19 posture as Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Director of Public Health, Dr Helen Carter, announced the phased easing of restrictions on Friday afternoon. Mr Picardo described this as “a population taking more personal responsibility and much less imposition by Government”. Speaking from No.6 Convent Place...

4th March 2022

There are moments, people and places which stay with you a lifetime. Some lay dormant, forgotten in your memory but when triggered can present you with a myriad of images and memories that take you back to those moments, people and places in an instant. There are your personal memories but there are also your...