Tag: Falkland Islands Government

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 07:14 UTC

  Falklands: mines discovered on a beach in Murrell Peninsula, north of Stanley

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that a number of mines have been discovered on Hell’s Kitchen beach on the designated Government Reserve, located on the Murrell Peninsula East Falkland, north of Stanley.

• Saturday, July 15th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

  Falklands extends payment increases to all FIG grades

  

  Following representations from Falkland Islands Government Officers, Members of Legislative Assembly reconsidered their budget decisions to not award increments to officers in grades C-A and agreed in Executive Council on July 3 to extend the award to include the payment of increments to all grades.

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 19:17 UTC

  Falklands launches tender for replacement of port facility FIPASS

  

  FIG today launched a tender for the provision of a new port facility for the Falkland Islands. The tender process was approved by Executive Council in February 2023, and today’s launch follows months of work with professional advisers and engagement with existing port users to refine the specification and provide both FIG and prospective tendering companies with a robust and complete model of what the Falklands needs from its port facility, looking decades into the future.

• Saturday, July 1st 2023 - 07:18 UTC

  Falklands with ten teams at Guernsey Island Games, plus live coverage

  

  Next week the Falklands Islands will be participating at the Island Games, to be held in Guernsey with twenty-four islands competing and running from July 8/14. Falklands is sending 76 athletes in ten teams, Archery, Badminton, Basketball, Bowls, Swimming Shooting, Golf, Table Tennis, Cycling, and Football.

• Friday, June 30th 2023 - 08:01 UTC

  Falklands Government acquires Stanley Growers provider of 90% of fresh vegetables and fruit

  

  Last 21 June it was announced that the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) would be acquiring Stanley Growers Limited and Stanley Nurseries and Garden Centre and the land which both businesses occupy, with the intention of managing the business for a time before selling it.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 13:56 UTC

  Falklands government negotiating the acquisition of Stanley Growers

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is currently in final negotiations with the Directors of Stanley Growers Limited and Stanley Nurseries and Garden Centre to acquire both businesses and the leases of the land on which they sit.

• Friday, February 17th 2023 - 07:00 UTC

  Falklands: PICTO 21 group told to expect no help from FIG or MLAs

  

  The so-called PICTO 21 group of Argentine visitors to the Falkland Islands looking for an accounting approach with which to measure ”the economic impact of the illegal occupation ... by the British government” will have no assistance from the local Legislative Assembly, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 15th 2023 - 09:22 UTC

  Ariane and Shannon qualified in leadership and management by Falklands government

  

  The Management Trainee Program which was re-launched in November 2020 as part of a two-year initiative aimed at identifying possible future leaders of government has now been concluded, and following their appointment as Management Trainees, Shannon Alazia and Ariane Brownlee have now successfully completed the program.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Findings from the 2021 Falkland Islands census

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has today published its findings from the 2021 census. Sunday 10 October 2021 marked the 25th Falkland Islands census since the first carried out by a resident Governor in 1842.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Update on Falklands commercial air-link with Brazil

  

  Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that commercial air links with Brazil will continue to remain suspended until 2023.