Falkland Islands

• Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Falklands condolences to the family of Britain's greatest swimmer

  

  The Falkland Islands Stanley Leisure Centre are sending condolences and thoughts to the family and the people who knew MBE David Wilkie who sadly passed on Wednesday. MBE David Wilkie opened the swimming pool here at Stanley Leisure Centre on the 4th of February 1990!

• Thursday, May 23rd 2024 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands' Legislative Assembly note the Dissolution of Parliament at Westminster and the Elections

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly notes the announcement by the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, that the Parliament at Westminster is to be dissolved and a General Election convened for Thursday, 4 July, 2024.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  MLAs to UN C24 conference: “Falklands have a lot to give the world in fisheries and science”

  

  The Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLA Teslyn Barkman and MLA Gavin Short will represent the Falkland Islands at the upcoming United Nations Decolonization Committee or C-24 conference in New York at the beginning of June.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Falklands launches program to modernize anti-discrimination legislation

  

  The Falkland Island Government is embarking on a work program to modernize the Falkland Islands equalities legislation and further protect every individual in the Falklands from discriminatory practices and behaviors. The long-term aim is to introduce the Falkland Islands' first comprehensive legislation against discrimination, whilst ensuring the Falkland Islands meet their international obligations and commitments made in the Islands Plan 2022-2026.

• Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  UK's not too generous attitude towards Overseas Territories higher education students

  

  Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee’s Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories has published on Monday, written evidence received for its work on the UK Government’s support of education for British Overseas Territories students.

• Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands War: partly released documents on Welsh Guard losses trigger more controversy

  

  BBC is reporting that declassified documents, --to be kept secret until 2065--, have cleared an army regiment of any blame in the biggest loss of British life during the Falklands War. Forty-eight crew were killed when the Sir Galahad, an unarmed and undefended supply ship carrying British troops to the Falklands, was hit by the Argentine air force bombs on 8 June 1982, six days before the end of the conflict.—

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 21:58 UTC

  A forum on decolonization calling on two other countries to decide the future of the Falklands people?

  

  The speech was delivered in Venezuela by Teslyn Barkman Falkland Islands MLA at the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, (14/16 May), ahead of the Special Committee on Decolonization later this year.

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 21:46 UTC

  The Times torpedo against preferred bidder for Falklands FIPASS

  

  On Wednesday, Harland & Wolff Group Holdings PLC, the preferred bidder status for the Falkland Islands Port Replacement Project, moved to reassure investors as it responded to what it considers to be a “misleading and inaccurate article published in The Times”, as reported by Alliance News.

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  Gibraltar's European future might impact Falklands' status

  

  The future of Gibraltar and Northern Ireland after Brexit concerning Europe will be discussed Thursday at a meeting in Brussels in which the British Foreign Minister, Lord David Cameron, his Spanish colleague, José Manuel Albares, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, will participate.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Falklands, Anti-stigma campaign on Mental Health supported by FIG and UK

  

  This Mental Health Awareness week Monday 13 – Sunday 19 May 2024 the KEMH Public Health Unit are launching a second survey focusing on developing an anti-stigma campaign for the Falkland Islands.