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12th September 2025

The Gibraltar Study Circle – sounds more like an historical association. The last time it visited the Rock was in 2019. Now, in its 50th year it is back this coming week to celebrate this milestone. The GSC has a global membership with experts on Gibraltar stamps, its postal stationery and postal history. I have...

11th September 2025

By Richard Garcia The exhibitions to be held on 17 September at the Garrison Library will include some interesting Gibraltar material. If you ask any collector when were the first Gibraltar stamps issued, the chances are that the reply will be 1886, because it was on 1 January 1886 that control of the Gibraltar Post...

4th September 2025

By Anthony Lombard Further to your interesting article, in your issue of the 22nd July, last, and in connection with the bestowal of the Spanish Order of Isabel the Catholic, by the Spanish Government, upon those Spaniards involved in the negotiations relating to the EU/UK Treaty on Gibraltar, your readers may be interested to be...

4th September 2025

Nominations for the King’s Birthday Honours List 2026 and the Gibraltar Award must be submitted by Friday September 26, 2025. Submissions should be made on a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office nomination proforma and addressed to the Gibraltar Honours Board Secretary, Office of the Governor, The Convent, Main Street, Gibraltar GX11 1AA. Nomination forms and...

3rd September 2025

The exhibitions to be held on 18 September at the Garrison Library will feature, as one of a number of aspects, Gibraltar philately with a difference. The emphasis will be on the period when the Gibraltar post office ran the British postal service in Morocco. It was bizarre that a colony, at its own expense,...

1st September 2025

The Royal Gibraltar Post Office (RGPO) has announced a temporary suspension of postal items containing goods destined for the United States. The measure follows a White House Executive Order of July 30, 2025, which introduced new requirements for the handling and customs processing of inbound goods mail. As a result, Royal Mail and other international...

1st September 2025

The Minister for Business, Gemma Arias Vasquez, has published the Business and Office of Fair Trading Annual Report 2024–2025. The report sets out the work carried out in business registration and licensing, consumer protection and enforcement. During the reporting period, 1,114 new business licence-related applications were processed, 412 consumer complaints were handled, and enforcement activity...

27th August 2025

By Richard Garcia The exhibitions to be held on 16, 17 and 18 September at the Gibraltar Garrison Library will show different aspects of philately. At one level, philately is about collecting postage or revenue stamps, or both. At a different level, and perhaps of wider interest, is the way in which philately can be...

21st August 2025

Bayside and Westside Schools and the Gibraltar College received their GCSE and Level 2 results on Thursday. A total of 672 grades at levels 9, 8 and 7 were obtained from the two secondary schools, with 336 at Bayside and 336 at Westside. Pupils achieved 3,110 grades from a possible 3,140, representing a pass rate...

20th August 2025

The Gibraltar Government recognises the complexities of integrating cycling infrastructure into Gibraltar’s roads while balancing the interests of cyclists, pedestrians and motorists, the Transport Minister Dr John Cortes said, as he restated his commitment to promoting sustainable transport. In achieving that goal, the key is to find a balance between different demands on Gibraltar’s narrow...

19th August 2025

The GSD has raised concerns about the impact of the planned Eastside development on Catalan Bay village and its beach, warning that government commitments to protect the area may not be honoured. The party said it supports regeneration of the Eastside to remove the rubble mountain and stimulate economic growth, but insisted this must not...

12th August 2025

By Rebecca Calderon I have been asked to write a regular column for the Gibraltar Chronicle, the stuff of dreams! I recall an era when I delivered articles by hand and was terrified to knock on the front door, but more on that later... It is with a sense of quiet excitement that I introduce...

5th August 2025

By MJ Corrales Diving into La Línea’s municipal archive is to journey into the past through documents that explain the life of the city and its relationship with Gibraltar and the border. As the chief archivist, José Martínez, says, “this archive is unique, because it contains documents that are only here because of the existence...

22nd July 2025

The Principal Auditor’s Report 2018-2019 found a “marked escalation” in rates arrears with £9.51m owed in March 2024, although recovery efforts have since been introduced. The report detailed how rates arrears increased from £4.8m in March 2015 to £9.5m nine years later, “representing an average annual increase of 10% and an overall increase of £3.49m...

10th July 2025

The Government of Gibraltar has expressed deep concern over the “content, tone and methodology” of the Principal Auditor’s report for 2018/19, which was published this week. While affirming its respect for the role of independent public auditing and its value in promoting transparency and good governance, the Government said that the report “strays” from the...

4th July 2025

The Gibraltar Honours Board, chaired by the Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, will meet in October to consider nominations for the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours List and the Gibraltar Award. Nominations are open to members of the public and are intended to recognise individuals from any part of the Gibraltarian community who have made...

29th June 2025

‘Abigail’s Library’ By Julian Felice The large house on the hill had survived relatively unscathed. A few days earlier, the Earth - seething with Her tenants - had shaken Her back, carving deep crevasses in many of the main roads, and wobbling buildings that had seemed immortal. In the more neglected areas, dreams had been...

27th June 2025

The Gibraltar Photographic Society has over 60 years built itself to become one of our most long-established, popular and a visible major part of our community. Still going strong it continues to attract new member in this digital age where everyone is a budding photographer – but there are still many out there who want...

16th May 2025

In today’s edition, Environmental Safety Group founding member Janet Howitt looks back at their beginnings and work over the past 25 years. 25 years ago today, Janet Howitt co-founded the Environmental Safety Group (ESG) when campaigning about nuclear submarine HMS Tireless paying a visit to the Rock on May 16, 2000. In brief, Ms Howitt’s...

16th April 2025

14-year-old Bella Howard has raised over £6,000 for the Nazareth House Soup Kitchen following a self-organised Easter fundraiser. Bella wrote and distributed letters to local companies requesting raffle prize donations, many of whom responded with generous support. “I got the idea when Father Charlie [who runs the soup kitchen] came to Bayside to talk to...

3rd April 2025

Joe Adambery reviews ‘The Crooked Timber’ an 80-page booklet by Giordano Durante and Gabriel Moreno. I recently found myself invited to review a small new book from two local poets. The Crooked Timber is an 80-page booklet compiled by Giordano Durante and Gabriel Moreno, two poets, both middle aged. Both family men juggling life and...

14th March 2025

In the first few pages of every Gibraltar Directory and Guide Book there is a monthly list of all important events in Gibraltar over the entire year. Today we return to the Directory of 1927 – which as I wrote last week belonged to the late Mesod Belilo who was keen that I used it...

6th March 2025

Gibraltarian writers Giordano Durante and Gabriel Moreno are releasing a new book next month. Titled ‘The Crooked Timber’, the book comprises a series of exchanges between Mr Durante and Mr Moreno about poetic craft, the nature of artistic inspiration, the hybrid aspects of Gibraltarian identity, the lure of fame and flattery and some middle-aged grousing....

25th February 2025

The Convent is reminding the public that nominations for the Gibraltar Honours Board must be submitted by Friday, March 28, using the FCDO Nomination Proforma. The proforma is available at the Convent reception or via enquiry.gibraltar@fco.gov.uk. They need to be marked for the attention of the Gibraltar Honours Board (GHB) Secretary, Office of the Governor,...

24th February 2025

GHA specialists are actively looking into lowering the age of bowel cancer screening, but before doing so, the team are assessing whether this would strain the current service offered. In Gibraltar, bowel cancer screening is offered to those aged 60 to 74 years and the GHA is considering lowering the age to match the NHS...

10th January 2025

Happy New Year to all – here we begin another year with all the best wishes in health and happiness 2025 can bring you. Alice’s Table is already four months into its seventh year. How did that happen? We have sat and chatted to many well-known personalities over the years and learnt many things we...

2nd December 2024

Personalised vehicle registration plates costing up to £500,000 are currently being sold, with a special ‘G1B’ plate set to be auctioned for the GBC Open Day. For the past few days Gibraltarians have been snapping up their chosen licence plates featuring special dates and names. The registration plates were unveiled by the Gibraltar Government on...

29th November 2024

The mother of a Gibraltar-born man who died aged 37 nearly two decades after suffering a life-changing brain injury in a UK young offenders’ institute described how she had been “scared and worried” for her son due to the level of care he was receiving at St Bernard’s hospital. Giving evidence for a second day...

27th November 2024

The Government is set to launch the online sale of personalised motor vehicle registration plates from Friday, offering customisable alphanumeric options starting with "G," with prices between £1,250 and £10,000, with premium and auction options available. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Department (DVLD) and the Customer Care Hub will oversee the sale and issuance of...

18th November 2024

An insight into the last five Conservative Prime Ministers during the party’s most recent tenure in Government was given to an audience by Sir Graham Brady at the Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival on Sunday. Sir Brady was talking about his new book ‘Kingmaker: Secret, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers’, which gives an...