World-wide celebrations as Overseas Territories honour Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Like many other countries around the world, the UK's Overseas Territories will be marking The Queen's Diamond Jubilee by lighting Beacons. They will join the Beacon lighting across the UK, continuing a tradition, first started to communicate but now carried out as a symbol of unity.
The Queen will light the last beacon of the day at the end of the BBC concert which will take place at the front of Buckingham Palace next Monday.
In the extreme South Atlantic the Falkland Islands beacon (a bonfire) will be lit at 18:00hrs on Monday 04June, on Surf Bay, a long white sand beach directly to the East of Stanley. The beacon is being constructed on 300 wooden pallets.
The island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, with only 262 inhabitants, will have the world’s most exotic beacon, and Saint Helena will be lighting five beacons to form a diamond shape. Montserrat, whose capital, Plymouth, was destroyed by the Soufriere Hills Volcano eruption in 1995 will be lighting their beacon in the new capital, Little Bay. This will be a double celebration, both of the Jubilee and also of the progress made on the island since the volcano.
The celebrations will light up the world, with beacons lit in the Overseas Territories in the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean Sea.
As well as the beacons, several Overseas Territories’ leaders are travelling to the UK to take part in the London Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend. This includes the Thames River Pageant where the ‘Sapele’ will fly all the flags of the Overseas Territories and a dinghy will be sailed by Sea Cadets from Bermuda.
Leaders will also attend the BBC concert at Buckingham Palace, where they will be able to sample British food from hampers designed by Heston Blumenthal and listen to live music from British and Commonwealth artists, and the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Minister for the Overseas Territories Henry Bellingham said “we are delighted that so many of the Overseas Territories are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with events both in London and the Territories. The fact that the Overseas Territories are playing such a full role is recognition of their close relationship with the Queen and the UK. Involving them in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations is part of our strategy of reinvigorating our relationship with the Overseas Territories”.
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God Bless Her Majesty The Queen. Long may she reign, and long may the corruption of republicism (especially Argentine republicism) be absent from our shores and territories.
@1. idlehands. Speak for yourself, the majority of people in Britain prefer the Constitutional Monarchy over a republic. The last time Britain was a republic it didn't turn out too well did it? That's why we (the people) asked for the restoration of Monarchy.
Politicians are self serving, and liable to corruption. Conversley, Her Majesty has devoted her whole life to the service of the country and it's people.
Show some conviction in your beliefs, forsake the public holiday, and go to work on Tuesday if you don't believe in the Monarchy.
Tinpot countries all round the world try but fail to replecate the majesty of a royal parade. Union flag is flying high in my garden, and its flying over Stanley in the falklands. As mentioned dont be jelous join in and celebrate HM the Queens Jubilee.
Surf Bay short video (sounds windy!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYb9WmYTpso
Google Map Surf Bay (with some photos): goo.gl/maps/CHm7
Long may she live.
God save Britain,
The only down side, and I will be polite,
Is no review of the fleet?
And sadly we all know why.
Thank you
.
God bless America
hope that was not an insult
end of
Like I said before statement of preference Pom.
The first amendment of a constitution to a real democratic country that allows me to have freedom of expression and since my feet are on American soil, I am using it.
For the record you started with the name calling so be the big person and stop it wherever you live at
Join in? LOL
I like these traditions from the standpoint of my interest in other countries' cultures. So I have no problem with them per say. Whether the running of the Bulls or bullfighting (which so many people object too, though I would agree the agonizing of the bull needs to end, if you need to kill the animal kill it humanely at the very end or something), to Oktoberfest, to Italian rennaissance festivals or the Papal traditions, to the French Bastille Day, to British royal consuetudes, the the American Superbowl, Carnival in Brazil, Chinese New year, etc ,etc, etc...
But that doesn't mean I will be joining them! I respect your Queen and even use the term “Her majesty”, but I'm not her subject, so I'm not celebrating her.
the first amendment!!!!!! Love the way americans keep quoting this...as if its some great novel idea that they only have!!!!!!!!!! In fact, it is only relatively recently that “the right to freedom of expression” has actually been true/allowed.
Are you sure you're an American? i thought Aussies called brits Poms.....oh sorry thats your right of freedom of expression.
True democracy....hehe....two party system, so basically you can select one side of the same coin......actually americans should really just toss for who becomes next president instead of the wasted money and time on bullshit speeches.
There was no huge rescue mission to save gb, we fought from 1939 to 1941 with no Us help, the uk had to pay cash for any Us arms during this period , they even sent a US warship to South Africa to pick up the last dribbles of our gold reserves. no help during battle of britain, or help when facing invasion!
but once the Us fleet was bombed at pearl and Germany declared war on US they did along with Ussr win the war thru emense supplies of materials and men. And put Europe first so cheers for that, but Hollywood history sometimes enhances the saved ass myth.
I do think the yanks are a nice bunch and generally do things for good.
AmericanLight (or should it be AmericanLite) is in fact a male who was born in Argentina and moved to the USA when quite young (9 I think) and has only been back three times (he says).
If he were really an imbued American he would disparagingly call Brits 'Limeys' or 'Limies', whatever their mongrel version of 'english' dictates, most certainly not poms.
Being a lapsed Argentinian, he has no concept of public service - the very thing that endears Her Majesty to her subjects. He would rather have an elected politician with no manners or respect for other countries, except when they have invaded them. Have you noticed that it is all different then? The two Bushes and Obarmy - just the same.
He tells us that he has a BS in physics from some obscure place I had never heard of, but that could just be BS.
I am afraid that the old saying 'once and Argie, always an Argie' holds true.
Then you will have to re plan the Union Jack. Ohh dear!
The latest YouGov poll suggests that only 32% of those eligible to vote in Scotland would vote for independence.
While such correlation is not necessarily causation, it does suggest that a constitutional monarchy doesn't impede the expression of progressive social and political values.
Biggest threat to such stability is not in democratic republican systems such as US, France, Germany, but rather in the Marxist-Leninist dogma that appears to infect far-left fringes in many countries, and in some countries through specific historical development, such fringe thinking seems to take over and potentially lead to emergence of counter-tyrannies.
And there's AmericanLight another Argentine troll, maybe he's so keen to quote the first amendment because there is nothing like freedom of speech in Argentina? Just ask the economists!
If the Scottish truly want to go it alone no one will stop them. However, most Scottish people are not going to vote to cede fom the Union, a Union that was forged because Scotland had bankrupted itself, because economically it would be suicide.
Not only that but many of the islands around Scotland; such as the Shetlands, Orkneys and Skye; have already made comments that if Scotland cedes from the Union they won't, they'll remain as part of the Union. This means that Scotland itself may become divided.
Added to this is that if Scotland cedes from the UK, they also cede from the EU and would have to rejoin. Spain has stated that they would veto an independent Scotland from joining, which would leave Scotland out in the cold from an economic point of view. Since they couldn't use the Euro as currency, they would have to retain sterling, which means that the Bank of England would set their interest rates etc... So basically they wouldn't gain any benefit from ceding from the Union.
Also, the SNP have said only Scottish people resident in Scotland are eligible to vote, so they're trying to tip the balance in their favour by disavowing all Scottish people having the right to vote, just because they happen to live and work in other parts of the Union. Hardly fair and democratic is it?
However, back to the story.
I'm just watching some of the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations on the TV. It's raining, but everyone involved in the river pageant appears to be enjoying themselves, especially Her Majesty.
Well done Ma'am, long may you reign.
Magna Carta
Wow, you've taught the world a new meaning of Democracy.......
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN...
you are intitled to your opinion,
but to insult the british queen, [from an american]
is off the track,
sticks and stones, mr red neck, sticks and stone,
.............................
thank you all for coming to our defence,
long live the queen,
60 years of dedication , diligence and loyalyty ,
thank you
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9307107/The-monarchy-is-doing-fine-the-problem-is-the-oligarchy.html
Supported by the Commonwealth of Nations - yes all 54 of them!
The island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, with only 262 inhabitants, will have the world’s most exotic beacon, and Saint Helena will be lighting five beacons to form a diamond shape.
The celebrations will light up the world, with beacons lit in the Overseas Territories in the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean Sea.
Minister for the Overseas Territories Henry Bellingham said “we are delighted that so many of the Overseas Territories are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with events both in London and the Territories. The fact that the Overseas Territories are playing such a full role is recognition of their close relationship with the Queen and the UK. Involving them in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations is part of our strategy of reinvigorating our relationship with the Overseas Territories”.
.the world is enjoying.
God Save the Queen. may she reign for many more years.
@14 Just as a matter of interest, why the first amendment? Why wasn't it in the original?
@20 Not really the Union “Jack”. It's the Union Flag. It is only properly called the Union Jack when it is flying from the jackstaff of a British vessel.
@32 The United Kingdom and the United States are very different countries. For example, consider how many organisations in the UK begin with “Her Majesty's”! Her Majesty promised, at the time of her accession, that she would devote the rest of her life to her people. She has kept her promise. Is there any politician, because that's what the American president is, say the same? For the sake of anyone that was unable to watch the River Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, Her Majesty, at 86 years of age, stood throughout the 2 hours. What a wonderful woman!
Even the deluded Blind_Scottie_Kirchnerist does not want the Union to be disbanded, and why? See 24 LEPRecon which covered it succintly.
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