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21st December 2021

Political leaders and civil society groups have paid tribute to Manolo Ruiz, President of the Gibraltar Senior Citizen’s Association, who died on Tuesday morning after a short illness at the age of 88. Since the launch of the association some 22 years ago, Mr Ruiz championed for change in the care of Gibraltar’s elderly citizens....

12th November 2021

I can only describe my guest this week, and perhaps if you have been a patient of his, you will understand when I say, he is a ‘classic gentleman doctor’. He inspires the utmost respect. He is disciplined and serious, and yet approachable, and in my case, I always felt in safe hands. Before I...

9th November 2021

As part of Gibraltar Literature Week, the Chronicle is publishing book reviews daily. The event organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services includes discussions with local authors live streamed on their Facebook page and talks in schools. Today Anthony Pitaluga, Archivist and Head of The Gibraltar National Archives, shares his book recommendation. A book primarily about analysing...

11th October 2021

The work ‘Hope’ by local artist Alan Perez, winner of the installation prize in the Gibraltar Spring festival art competition last year, is featured in a new exhibition which has just opened in Tarifa. The exhibition called ‘Exodus’ includes works from 28 artists exploring immigration, climate change and impact. The paintings, sculptures and installations are...

27th September 2021

By Patrick Daly, PA Political Correspondent The Prime Minister is said to be considering whether to call in soldiers to deliver fuel to petrol stations as pumps ran dry after days of panic buying. Emergency measures were triggered on Sunday evening, with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng choosing to suspend competition laws for the fuel industry...

24th September 2021

By Eleanor Busby, PA Education Correspondent Staff at a school targeted by anti-vaccination campaigners have received “abusive” and violent threats and an “unwelcome” visitor on the site. David Phillips, head of Chilwell School in Beeston, Nottingham, is making preparations for possible protests outside the school after receiving threatening phone calls, emails and a “poster attack”...

20th September 2021

By Aine Fox, PA Coronavirus vaccines are being rolled out to children aged between 12 and 15, with three million youngsters eligible across the UK. The programme is expected to be delivered primarily within schools, and guidance has been issued to headteachers to contact police if they believe protests could be held outside their buildings....

20th August 2021

By Aine Fox and Ian Jones, PA Almost two thirds of people under 50 who died in England with the Delta variant were not vaccinated against the virus, the latest figures show. New data from Public Health England (PHE) also shows that 74% of this age group in hospital with the variant had not had...

15th August 2021

The Gibraltar Honours Board (GHB) has called for nominations for national honours, with the Board set to meet, under the Chairmanship of the Governor, in October. The Board will consider nominations for the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 and the Gibraltar Award, which is awarded by the GHB and announced coincident with the Queen’s Birthday...

6th August 2021

The former Head of Clinical Governance at the Gibraltar Health Authority, Professor Derek Burke, has raised serious concerns about the “collapse” of healthcare management in Gibraltar, which he said was putting patient safety at risk. In a damning email to doctors first reported by GBC on Wednesday evening, Prof Burke reacted to concerns voiced by...

30th July 2021

The Opposition walked out of the Gibraltar Parliament on Friday as a debate on Community Care flared into accusations that the government was using Parliament to “bully citizens” and curtail democratic debate. The motion, which was approved by government majority, called on Community Care campaigners to withdraw a letter handed to the Governor, Vice Admiral...

12th July 2021

A piece of folded parchment inscribed with a few lines of handwritten script dating back to 1779 and bearing the name of Horatio Nelson is the subject of a new book by Gibraltar Archivist Anthony Pitaluga. The book ‘Nelson's Remarks’ is the journey of the authentication of the document of the account by Nelson of...

15th June 2021

Gibraltar driving licence holders will not need an International Driving Permit (IDP) in Spain, the Government has announced today. An IDP will be a requirement for local driving licence holders when driving in Croatia, France and Italy where a 1968 IDP will be required, and also Cyprus where a 1949 IDP is required. No IDPs...

14th May 2021

My guest this week joined the City Council in 1962. Little did he know he had just embarked on what would be a long and distinguished career spanning more than 50 years. The City Hall is a place he will always hold dear to his heart having been interviewed in the Mayor’s Parlour when appointed...

14th May 2021

Pressure mounted yesterday for Community Care Ltd to reverse changes introduced last year to eligibility criteria for its ‘community officer scheme’, with campaigner and Unite the Union claiming the sudden change had left many people facing financial hardship. Campaign group Community Care Action Group wants the charity to revert back to the previous criteria and...

30th April 2021

Last week we met Bertina Garcia… teacher and soprano. Today we meet one of her sons. Someone who is no stranger to these pages, or as a writer himself, or as a man about town, or as one of our most colourful local personalities. I have known Richard Garcia throughout my life both at a...

16th April 2021

By Laura Elston The Duke of Edinburgh’s title will eventually pass on to his youngest son the Earl of Wessex, but not until after the death of the Queen. When Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones married in 1999, they were given the titles the Earl and Countess of Wessex, but Buckingham Palace also announced that...

28th March 2021

Over 1,000 people have been assisted by the Citizen Advice Bureau Gibraltar online digital support services since the first Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. The range of tasks the staff at CAB are as varied as the ages of the people requiring their help. Pili Rodriguez the bureau manager together with her deputy Ivan Cruz ensure...

22nd March 2021

By Sherna Noah Douglas Adams’ frustration with his most famous work – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – has been revealed in his archive. The writer, who also penned stories for Doctor Who and served as script editor for the show, died of a heart attack, aged 49, in 2001. A book, titled 42,...

19th March 2021

By Grandmaster Stuart Conquest Life gets us all down sometimes, none of us is immune, but there are people who seem better at bouncing back, always busy with new projects, new challenges, finding new paths to tread. Carl Portman is such a person. Although we don’t know each other particularly well on a face-to-face basis...

15th March 2021

By Sam Blewett, PA Political Correspondent The European Union has accused the UK of breaching international law for a second time as it formally launched legal action against the UK Government for unilaterally extending the post-Brexit grace periods on trade in Northern Ireland. In an escalation of tensions, the European Commission on Monday took the...

11th March 2021

By Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent Royal Mail is launching specially decorated postboxes to mark Mother’s Day. The postboxes, three of which are for letters and cards and the fourth for parcels, are decorated in a plum colour and feature testimonies from Royal Mail employees. The designs incorporate images of the workers’ mothers, an account...

9th March 2021

By Lucinda Cameron, PA Scotland An autistic teenager has sent almost 700 thank you cards to staff at a hospital to share messages of support with those on the front line dealing with Covid-19. Paddy Joyce, 17, from Glasgow, began writing to healthcare staff in mid-January as a way to help with his anxiety after...

8th March 2021

By Eleanor Busby, PA Education Correspondent Secondary school students will not be forced to wear face coverings in classrooms, as some will be “anxious and nervous” about wearing them, an education minister has said. As millions of pupils in England begin to return to class after months of remote learning, children’s minister Vicky Ford said...

5th March 2021

It was a book all about Earth from his school library that fired up a young Brian May’s imagination. He read it cover to cover, over and over. The author was Patrick Moore, who began presenting ‘The Sky at Night’ on BBC in April, 1957, when May was just nine years old. Keeping the same...

2nd March 2021

By Hannah Stephenson Forthright and funny, award-winning journalist, feminist icon and bestselling author Caitlin Moran is extolling the virtues of motherhood in the run-up to Mother’s Day. “Motherhood is the greatest unpaid job on the planet, in both a good way and a bad way. It’s the most intense crash course you can have in...

1st March 2021

In a recent interview Elaine Paige was asked why musicals were so popular and captured people’s imagination? It was, she said, about coming together and sharing in the moment of something unique and wonderful. Sharing in an experience where for some two hours there was a moment of escapism. She could not have described it...

26th February 2021

By Tony Jones, PA Court Correspondent The Queen has said her Covid-19 jab “didn’t hurt at all” as she encouraged those hesitant about vaccination to “think about other people rather than themselves”. The head of state, who was inoculated in January, said after having the vaccine you felt “protected”, which she described as “important” during...

18th February 2021

By Diana Bossio Facebook today made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content. The ban includes blocking links to Australian and overseas news publishers. Facebook said the ban was a direct response to the federal government’s news media code legislation, which is expected to become law soon and would...

16th February 2021

By David Welch, Jemma Geoghegan, Joep de Ligt and Nigel French New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community. In the most recent outbreak, which placed Auckland into an alert level 3 lockdown, there are three active community cases of the more infectious B.1.1.7 lineage. While...