Tag: Gavin Short MLA

• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 07:52 UTC

  Falkland Islands receives the first cruise visit since 2019/20 season

  

  The first cruise ship to visit the Falklands since the 2019/2020 tourist season, Silver Explorer, was cleared on November 24 and in Stanley Harbor. The itinerary included visits to Bleaker Island and Bull Point. However, it is unknown how many other vessels will visit over the season.

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• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 23:29 UTC

  Arrival of first expedition vessels into the Falkland Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands will see the arrival of its first expedition vessel as part of a scaled down summer tourist season on Thursday 25 November 2021. The vessel, Silver Explorer, will call to Bleaker Island and Bull Point for the day and passengers will be permitted to disembark and visit the areas.

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:17 UTC

  Falklands' winds and flight delays could reduce attractiveness of additional services

  

  Too many documented delays to flights might reduce the attractiveness of the Falklands in terms of an airline considering providing an additional service to the Islands, acknowledged Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short this week.

• Friday, June 30th 2017 - 16:49 UTC

  Change of Governor of the Falkland Islands

  

  Mr Nigel Phillips CBE has been appointed Governor of the in succession to Mr Colin Roberts CVO who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Phillips will take up his appointment in September 2017.

• Friday, March 17th 2017 - 07:52 UTC

  Falklands' lawmakers reject Argentine “sovereignty document” scam

  

  An Argentine antique dealer who offered to sell a copy of an old document that he claimed would destroy the Argentine historical case for sovereignty over the Falklands, has been turned down. According to this week's Penguin News edition, the Secretary of the group Asociación Civil de Amigos Malvinas/Falklands (ACAMF) Gabriel Di Bernardo made contact with the Islands in October last year.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:16 UTC

  “Dancing for Falklands”, MLA Gavin Short takes on Argentina's most mediatic personality

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker, MLA Gavin Short has picked a dispute with possibly the most mediatic character in Argentina, a simple soccer commentator who in three decades has built a powerful entertainment corporation and is the showman of one of the evening programs which for years has had the highest ratings.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 19:40 UTC

  A Falklands' annual event: Chilean Independence Day celebrations

  

  Chilean Independence Day celebrations were again held in the Falkland Islands this year, with the main event being hosted at Government House in Stanley, demonstrating the strong relationship that has formed between Chile and the Falklands in recent decades.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 22:06 UTC

  “We, Falklands are the only people who can say what we want for our future”, MLA Short tells the C24 committee

  

  A Falkland Islands lawmaker addressing the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, in New York said that the political future of the Islands is not about the UK or Argentina, but rather the people of the Falklands, and “We are the only people who can say what we want for our future”.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 15:16 UTC

  Falklands defend their right to self-determination at UN Decolonisation Committee in New York

  

  Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly members, Mike Summers and Gavin Short, speaking early today at the Special Committee on Decolonisation at the United Nations in New York argued that the Falkland Islands and its people have the right to determine their own future. Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra is scheduled to present Argentina’s case to the C24 claiming Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands later this afternoon.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2016 - 07:05 UTC

  Falklands will be making their case before the UN C24 this week

  

  The Falkland Islands and Argentina will be making their case on Thursday in New York before the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, an annual event where the Islanders demand recognition of their right to self determination, as clearly expressed in the UN charter for all peoples of the world.