Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, May 29th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Falklands: Consultation work to be undertaken on salmon farming

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has agreed to dispose of the claim brought by Unity Marine Limited by mutual consent, and on 27 May 2024, the Chief Justice issued the Order as agreed by the parties. The claim sought to challenge the decision made in March 2022 that arrangements should be put in place to prevent large-scale salmon-farming from proceeding in the Falkland Islands. Amongst other things, the Government had previously given an expectation that there would be a full public consultation on the issue prior to a decision being made. The Government accept that a full public consultation should be held, before a further decision is made on the issue.

• Monday, May 27th 2024 - 06:57 UTC

  UK: Sunak pledges to reinstate compulsory service

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Sunday that if he wins July's snap elections he will bring back conscription whereby all 18-year-olds would be required to either join the military full-time or volunteer one weekend per month with community organizations such as the police or National Health Service (NHS).

• Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:26 UTC

  Falklands Anniversary of Liberation Day on Friday June 14th

  

  To mark the Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from the Argentine occupation in 1982, the following program has been arranged for Friday 14 June 2024.

• 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.