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2nd February 2021

by Rafael Benzaquen The UK/Spain/Gibraltar New Year’s Eve deal (“the deal”) is a complex document. For that reason, Mr Azopardi’s ‘simple’ analysis is, self-evidently, inappropriate, as he knows. The deal purports to enable Gibraltar to benefit from Schengen without actually joining Schengen. Likewise, it allows Gibraltar to benefit from the EU Customs Union (should it...

26th January 2021

Local author and historian Richard Garcia has published his newest book detailing Gibraltar’s social history titled ‘Forging a Civilian Community 1704-1749’. The book which is available via the Heritage Trust is the first of three instalments which delve into Gibraltar’s past. Mr Garcia has researched the Rock’s social history for 25 years. He found that...

22nd January 2021

If you ever find yourself in Indianapolis, Indiana, make sure to check out the downtown portion of Massachusetts Avenue, where you can admire a massive building-sized mural of a smiling man with a moustache and curly hair. This 38-foot-high creation, painted in 2011 by local artist Pamela Bliss, shows a figure casually attired, looking relaxed...

20th January 2021

By Sam Russell A 480-million-year-old fossil found in Morocco is a “missing link” between modern-day starfish and their ancestors, a scientist has said. The fossil, discovered in the Anti-Atlas mountain range, captures the early evolutionary steps of the animal at a time in Earth’s history when life suddenly expanded, a period known as the Ordovician...

17th January 2021

By Sonia Elks Climate change could undo decades of work reducing malnutrition, scientists said on Thursday in a study finding that children in developing countries with rising temperatures are eating poorer diets. Higher temperatures often had a bigger impact on children's diet diversity than the gains seen from access to education, clean water and poverty...

14th January 2021

By Edd Dracott, PA An autistic teenager is asking for the names and hospital addresses of NHS workers so he can send them a thank-you card. Patrick Joyce, 16, from Glasgow, wants to thank nurses and doctors for their efforts to help Covid-19 patients, and his mother said writing the cards will ease his anxiety...

7th January 2021

By Alistair Mason A charity shop is calling on the public to help them reunite a collection of First World War love letters with the relatives of their recipient. The letters, which were found in a donated sewing box at a Sue Ryder shop in Fulwell, Sunderland, are addressed to a Mrs Mary Fortune from...

22nd December 2020

The Royal Mail has suspended all postal services to Europe and international destinations with immediate effect. “All Gibraltar's mail for international destinations, except UK and Spain, is delivered through our UK mail partners. Therefore, no items for these destinations will be accepted until the service is resumed by Royal Mail,” said a statement from the...

18th December 2020

by Priya Gulraj and Matthew Ramirez A group of restaurateurs, hospitality staff and clients congregated outside No.6 Convent Place last night to protest the lack of consultation on the 7pm curfew imposed on restaurants and bars on what was to be the busiest night of business before Christmas. They stood outside the Gibraltar Government’s offices...

11th December 2020

This has been a funny old year. I guess that is an understatement. If someone had predicted what the world has had to endure over the past year no one would have believed it. And so, it goes on because we are not quite over it yet as normality, whatever that might mean these days,...

8th December 2020

The Gibraltar Government has announced all Royal Gibraltar Post Office vehicles have been replaced with new zero emission vehicles, making this the first public Postal Service in the world to have a fully electric fleet of delivery vehicles. The Government added this was in line with the manifesto commitment for a Green Gibraltar. A statement...

4th December 2020

Childline Gibraltar has implemented a call waiting system to cope with demand after a sharp increase of 126% in calls this year, its CEO Caroline Carter has said in the charity’s annual report. The report, which details the charity’s progress from July 2019 to June 2020, found a more than two-fold increase in the number...

1st December 2020

By David Hughes, PA Political Editor A round-the-clock unit will watch out for problems at the UK’s border as new trading arrangements with the European Union take effect. The Border Operations Centre will use experts and cutting-edge software to help cope with the disruption expected once the UK leaves the single market and customs union...

1st December 2020

By Shaun Connolly and David Hughes, PA Political Staff Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has hit out at the EU for trying to take the “lion’s share” of British fish stocks as Brexit talks go “down to the wire”. The senior minister also called for Brussels to move on other areas of contention such as...

28th November 2020

Two weeks back on a Saturday one of the leading stories in The Times was not the latest on Covid-19, the vaccine, or even Brexit but an English-language bookshop in the French capital. Some say, Shakespeare and Company, is the most famous independent bookshop in the world founded in 1919 and which has inspired generations...

26th November 2020

A campaign to vaccinate schoolchildren against winter flu has delivered poor results, with just 13% of children taking up the offer, according to data from the Gibraltar Government. The low uptake comes just weeks after the Government launched what it described at the time as the largest vaccination campaign in local history against the backdrop...

25th November 2020

Listen to the full interview with Gibraltar National team head coach Julio Ribas -click here A week after Gibraltar gained promotion to UEFA Nation’s League C, Chronicle sports reporter Stephen Ignacio, was able to catch up with the man who led Gibraltar to its biggest success in its football history, for now. Julio Ribas, the...

21st November 2020

By Tony Jones The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph showing them opening a card from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children. The colourful homemade gift was created by Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, and is emblazoned with the number 73 – that...

19th November 2020

Local author and historian Richard Garcia discussed his lifelong passion for writing and detailed his extensive collection of books he has authored during his Literature Week talk. Mr Garcia opened the talk commenting how it was fitting that the ‘An Audience with…’ series of talks organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services, was held in the John...

9th November 2020

Gibraltar’s Prison Superintendent has spoken of the careful balance adopted inside Windmill Hill Prison as staff and prisoners alike adapted to the impact of the Covid-19 public health crisis. For prisoners, lockdown meant restrictions that impacted on vital lifelines such as family visits which are key to rehabilitation while serving sentences. For staff, it was...

3rd November 2020

By Chronicle staff and agencies The Royal Gibraltar Police has increased armed patrols on the Rock in the wake of a terror attack in Vienna on Monday night, calling on the public to remain vigilant even though the alert level here remains unchanged and there is nothing to suggest a specific threat to Gibraltar. Austrian...

2nd November 2020

The Gibraltar Health Authority has launched a modernised and updated cervical cancer screening programme at the Primary Care Centre. The service, which is in line with UK best practice guidelines for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) testing, fulfils a Gibraltar Government manifesto commitment and promotes prevention over cure. The PCC will offer this updated testing on...

16th October 2020

By Sam Russell A locket and jewellery that Queen Victoria gifted to two of her goddaughters is to be sold at auction. The locket was given to Lady Victoria Scott on her marriage to Schomberg Henry Kerr, ninth Marquess of Lothian, on February 23, 1865. It is set with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, monogrammed with...

15th October 2020

The Gibraltar Honours Board (GHB), under the Chairmanship of the Governor, will meet in November to consider nominations for the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021 and the Gibraltar Award. “Nominations should be submitted to recognise those people, from any section of the Gibraltarian Community, that have made an exceptional contribution or given exceptional service in...

7th October 2020

PART ONE Avid traveller Paul Moody has explored the world, usually travelling in his car. In the past he has set off from Gibraltar to visit countries as far as Austrialia. This time he was joined by his son Will during a trip in Pakistan. “Welcome to Pakistan” the security officer warmly greeted us as...

1st October 2020

Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia launched a major exhibition at the John Mackintosh Hall to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Thursday. The exhibition was originally scheduled to open on the actual day of the anniversary on May 8, but was postponed because of the lockdown brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic....

25th September 2020

By Laura Elston, Press Association Court Reporter Princess Eugenie is expecting a baby, Buckingham Palace has announced. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are said to be “delighted” by the news their granddaughter is pregnant. Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank wed at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in October 2018. Eugenie, the daughter of the...

19th September 2020

In 1949, two charity concerts were held at the Theatre Royal for the St Vincent de Paul Society. Two of many you might say, and you would be right. But these were special and would go on to live in the memory of the young voices who performed in these concerts and which the Chronicle...

16th September 2020

As a former banker Roy Clinton confesses it was the monetary aspect of the story of ‘Eliott’s Gold’, the title and subject of his first published book launched today at the offices of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust, which intrigued him enough to research it thoroughly. It was, he points out, a combination of curiosity, his...

9th September 2020

By Cate McCurry, PA The Irish premier has said he is “extremely concerned” about the British Government’s controversial plans to override key elements of the Brexit deal with Brussels. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said on Tuesday that legislation to change the Withdrawal Agreement would go against international law in a “very specific and limited...