Tag: Janet Robertson

• Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 22:21 UTC

  Falklands CFL Charitable Fund made seven awards this year

  

  Falkland Islands Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Charitable Trust has made a total of seven awards this year, benefitting a range of people both in the Falklands community and beyond.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  Falklands Museum receives £60,000 donation from Consolidated Fisheries Limited

  

  The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust (FIMNT) received a significant donation of £60,000 from Consolidated Fisheries Limited (CFL) on January 11 to assist in the construction of the Lookout Gallery & Exhibition Hall, a new building for the museum to display items which have no space in the Historic Dockyard Museum.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 02:34 UTC

  Falklands' Consolidated Fisheries launches Charitable Fund

  

  Falklands' Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (CFL) announced this week the launch of a charitable trust formed by the company in 2018 and described as being “for the general benefit of the people of the Falkland Islands.”

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Falklands startled at Westminster paper proposing UK citizens right to vote in Overseas Territories

  

  “Belongership” and its equivalents are wrong,” it is emphatically stated in a startling paper from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. The paper says the belongership status (known as Falklands Status in the Falklands) as enshrined in the constitutions of a number of British Overseas Territories, including the Falklands, denies legally-resident British Overseas Territory and UK citizens the right to vote and to hold elected office.

• Friday, July 6th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Brexit and the Falkland Islands: Potentially catastrophic?

  

  Brexit could be “potentially catastrophic,” for the Falklands according to a recent UK newspaper article. And by all accounts it could have a serious impact if heavy tariffs were applied to goods exported from the Islands into the EU. But just how bad could it be?

• Monday, November 13th 2017 - 06:52 UTC

  Falklands toothfish longline fishery undergoing MSC reassessment

  

  The Falkland Islands toothfish longline fishery this week will be undergoing reassessment against the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing.

• Thursday, February 16th 2017 - 14:33 UTC

  Stacy Bragger appointed Falklands' Media Trust Chair

  

  Stacy Bragger, Office Manager of the Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce has been appointed Chair of the Media Trust. Stacy Bragger takes on the role from Janet Robertson who recently completed her four year tenure.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 18:50 UTC

  Falklands debates full time lawmakers and how to attract younger generations to elected posts

  

  With the next general election for Legislative Assembly Members for the Falkland Islands Government less than a year away, public consultation has begun on whether the posts should become full time with an appropriate salary paid.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 06:15 UTC

  Falklands’ fishing company seeking good management label from MSC

  

  For the first time a Falkland Islands fishing company is seeking to have its good management certificated by the internationally recognised Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).