Tag: Commonwealth

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 21:06 UTC

  Final reminder of the Falkland Islands Status Amendments 2022

  

  In September 2022 the Legislative Assembly approved amendments to the Falkland Islands Status Ordinance 1998. The amended Ordinance narrows the definition of a “qualified person” (which at the moment includes a Commonwealth citizen), limiting the definition to include a British citizen, a British Overseas Territory citizen or a British Overseas citizen.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2023 - 11:03 UTC

  Republicanism: Australia will honor indigenous cultures in its A$ 5 bill instead of Charles III

  

  Australia's new Five Dollar bill will replace an image of British monarch Charles III with one honoring Australian Indigenous cultures. It is the last banknote in Australia that still bears the head of recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  UK will resume visits for Chagossians descendants to their homeland

  

  The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has made public a page with brings together information on UK government support to people who were born on the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and their descendants.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Why Commonwealth summit in Rwanda won't be the re-launch some were expecting

  

  Leaders of some 54 countries – from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Southern America – have converged on Kigali, Rwanda, until 25 June for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Philip Murphy, a professor of Commonwealth history (School of Advanced Study) examines the expectations and limitations of the Kigali conference.

• Sunday, February 13th 2022 - 14:23 UTC

  Eighty years since the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”

  

  This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic importance was invaded and subsequently captured by the Empire of Japan. Its loss represented the lowest point of the war in the Far East and was a matter Prime Minister Winston Churchill never really got over.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Commonwealth and WHO agree to work on universal health care and resilient health systems

  

  The Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing to strengthening their collaboration on a broad range of public health issues of particular concern to Commonwealth member states and governments, such as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine equity, advancing universal health coverage, and building resilient health systems.

• Friday, December 10th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Book on OTs Parliament buildings marks 110th anniversary of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

  

  To mark the conclusion of the 110th anniversary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association this year, the CPA has published a special anniversary book showcasing over 180 Parliament buildings around the Commonwealth and giving an insight into their varied histories. The historic Parliament buildings of Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, St Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands (BVI) are featured in this new book.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Birmingham 2022 Queen's Baton Relay in the Falklands on June 7

  

  The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to take place from 28 July to 8 August will be preceded by the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay. An epic journey across the Commonwealth, with the Queen’s Baton visiting all 72 nations and territories, reaching Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and in the Americas, among others the Falkland Islands on 7 June 2022.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Barbados to quit British Commonwealth effective December 1

  

  The Parliament of Barbados has passed by 25 votes to none a Constitutional Amendment whereby the former British colony, which remained within the Commonwealth after its declaration of independence in 1966 will become a republic and thus remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state. The decision will become effective on Dec. 1.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Barbados to become a republic November 2021; the Caribbean nation is expected to remain in the Commonwealth

  

  The Caribbean island of Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past.