Falkland Islands

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 08:30 UTC

  Falklands flagged Sir David Attenborough prepares for its Antarctic summer expedition

  

  Having ended its Arctic expedition, icebreaker Sir David Attenborough has docked in Harwich before it will head off to welcome its new crew and prepare for the austral summer mission in Antarctica. 

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 21:37 UTC

  BOTs Attorney Generals met in Montserrat to enhance cooperation and uphold rule of the law

  

  Attorneys General of the British Overseas Territories met during three days in September, the first in-person conference since 2019, to enhance cooperation on a number of wide-ranging issues.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 15:02 UTC

  Falklands Patrol HMS Forth returning to the Islands with a new paint scheme

  

  HMS Forth, the Falkland Islands patrol has conducted her first major maintenance period since she was commissioned five years ago and is now leaving Gibraltar and returning to her home in the Islands.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 07:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government attend Party Conferences

  

  The Falkland Islands Government attended both the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester (1st to 4th October) and the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (8th to 11th October) and met with a number of senior politicians from both parties, including Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Ministers, to discuss issues of importance to the Islands, alongside welcoming MPs, Councillors and Party Members to the Falkland Islands stand.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 08:23 UTC

  Winners of the competition, Why I would like to meet my neighbors in the Falklands?

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and the British Embassies in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay have announced the winners of this year’s regional student competition. Participants from the four countries were asked to submit a short video in English, in which they answered the question: “Why would I like to meet my neighbours in the Falkland Islands?”.

• Monday, October 9th 2023 - 07:58 UTC

  Shadow Foreign Office minister McMorrin visits the Falklands stand at Labour Conference in Liverpool

  

  Among the many lawmakers and politicians who visited the Falkland Islands stand at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool was shadow Foreign Office minister Anna McMorrin who is a member of Parliament for Cardiff North since 2017.

• Monday, October 9th 2023 - 07:05 UTC

  Falkland Islands invites to a presentation by PMCL Advisory Services' CEO

  

  The Falkland Islands government has announced that a public meeting will be held at 5 pm on Wednesday 11th October at the Court and Assembly Chambers, Town Hall for the CEO of PMCL Consulting (Investment Advisory Services), Ed Jewson, to present the following:

• Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 06:36 UTC

  Sir Lindsay Hoyle: “Why I became a champion and advocate for the British Overseas Territories”

  

  By Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the UK House of Commons
  
  From the Pitcairn Islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean to the British Indian Ocean Territory almost 10,000 miles away, the British Overseas Territories (OTs) all have one thing in common – they are British.

• Wednesday, October 4th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Studying the impact of commercial whaling in South Georgia on today's pods

  

  While commercial whaling in the twentieth century killed big whale populations, it also appears to have had a long-term impact on the genetic variety of today's surviving whales, according to a piece by Nature World News extracted from Journal of Heredity.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Buenos Aires says Cleverly's trip to Falkland Islands is an “unnecessary provocation”

  

  After British Secretary James Cleverly announced Sunday that he would be traveling to the Falklands to show his support for the Islanders' self-determination, the Argentine government replied that it was an “unnecessary provocation.”