Tag: British overseas territories BOT

• Sunday, March 13th 2022 - 20:04 UTC

  Who moved the island? For 85 years Henderson island has been in the “wrong place”

  

  Sailors on a Royal Navy warship have proved a remote Pacific island has been in the 'wrong place' for 85 years. Henderson Island in the South Pacific is one mile south of the position marked on charts used by mariners the world over since 1937.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands Government reiterates the need to respect human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation

  

  On Tuesday the Falklands government in an official release reiterated the need for human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation to be respected, particularly self-determination.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 22:43 UTC

  Falklands' delegation participates in first JMC presential meeting since 2018

  

  Falklands had a most busy week in London with ministerial meetings, contacts, speeches, addressing an agenda full of issues in different fields most of them of interest for the Islands and shared with colleagues from the Association of Overseas Territories.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 20:26 UTC

  “Climate change threatening the very survival of BOTs”, Prince William

  

  The highlight of this year's Joint Ministerial Council, JMC, meeting between British Overseas Territories leaders and UK cabinet ministers was a speech by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, referred to climate change and the role BOTs play “on the front line”.

• Thursday, August 19th 2021 - 06:03 UTC

  Spanish trawlers believe Falklands is heading for a record catch of Loligo

  

  The fleet of trawlers from Vigo. Spain operating in the Falkland Islands waters are most enthusiastic about the current second squid season and believe Loligo landings already totaling 72,200 tons according to records from Falklands' Natural Resources Department could anticipate, if catch rates continue, a record similar to that of the best year back in 1995, with 98,409 tons.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Game over: C14 resolution ignores Falklands' pleas and again calls for a bilateral dialogue Argentina/UK

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, C24, addressed on Thursday the annual Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty question, which once again concluded with an appeal to the governments of Argentina and Britain to resume dialogue with the purpose of finding, in the shortest time possible, a peaceful solution to the controversy.

• Saturday, January 9th 2021 - 23:55 UTC

  Gibraltar receives first consignment of Pfizer vaccine; inoculation begins Sunday

  

  British Overseas Territory Gibraltar received on Saturday the first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine supplied by the UK. The vaccine supplied is the Pfizer BioNTech, which has been given to the vast majority of people that have received a COVID-19 vaccination in the U.K.

• Friday, January 1st 2021 - 21:59 UTC

  UK and Spain agree on a separate deal for Gibraltar: it needs EU support

  

  Following the 31 December agreement reached by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain referred to Gibraltar, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said…

• Saturday, December 19th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina asks Portugal to consider the Falklands a litigation issue and not a British Overseas Territory

  

  Argentina and Portugal foreign ministers agreed on a fluid dialogue and standing contact during the next six months to address bilateral issues, the Mercosur/European Union trade deal and the Falklands/Malvinas question.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:51 UTC

  Gibraltar bans tourists arriving from sixteen “at risk” coronavirus countries

  

  Gibraltar has started banning people entering from coronavirus-hit countries. In a document sent to the Japanese embassy in London, Gibraltar said it “may deny” entry to people who have visited any of 16 “dangerous countries” which have been hit by coronavirus.