Tag: Leona Roberts

• Friday, March 10th 2023 - 12:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Result of referendum remains clear 10 years on

  

  Over 10 and 11 March 2013, Falkland Islanders overwhelmingly decided their future political status. The referendum asked voters “Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?”

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 18:01 UTC

  Falkland Islanders Honour Veteran BBC Journalist

  

  By Graham Bound, London - HAROLD Briley, a BBC World Service journalist who reported from Buenos Aires throughout the 1982 Falklands War, has received a special and rare honour from the government of the Islands.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands: additional funding for overseas students in higher education considered

  

  Inflation is biting and additional funding for Falkland Islands students studying overseas for their higher or further education is being considered by Falkland Islands government as cost of living escalates globally, Penguin News was told by MLA Leona Roberts, portfolio holder for Education and Community.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  “Falklands offers a different lifestyle, but if you love it, you tend to really love it,” MLA Leona Roberts

  

  “The Falklands Islands are a funny place, it's not for everybody, it's quite a different lifestyle, but if you love it, you tend to really love it. People who come to the Falklands and make the Islands their home generally stay,” MLA Leona Roberts told the Spanish news agency EFE, in an interview at the Falklands House in London.

• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands challenges C24 to visit the Islands: the inconvenient truth a bully Argentina wants to hide, MLA Roberts

  

  Chair, Committee Members – my name is Leona Roberts and I am proud to be one of the eight elected representatives of the Falkland Islands Government. I am here today to speak for our people and to defend our tiny, democratic, and freedom-loving country against the colonial ambitions of our aggressive neighbor.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Veterans will always find “a home from home” in the Falklands, MLA Roberts tells SAMA82 members

  

  Every bearer of the South Atlantic Medal will always find “a home from home”, Falkland Islands lawmaker Leona Roberts assured the men and women of Operation Corporate as they bestowed the Freedom of the Falklands on them, on Turesday, 14 June. .

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  “People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony

  

  At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British soldiers entered Stanley and liberated the Falkland Islands from foreign occupation. And since Liberation, the Falkland Islands have lived and thrived in peace and freedom looking into the future.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Princess Anne attends Falklands' war anniversary service at St. Paul's Cathedral

  

  Princess Royal has joined veterans at a service to remember those who fought or died in the Falklands War, and to mark the conflict’s 40th anniversary. The Falkland Islands Government organized the service of reflection and remembrance in St Faith’s Chapel at St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Falklands lawmaker meets Shadow ministers and attends CPA conference

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Leona Roberts, currently in UK where she attended the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) British Islands and Mediterranean (BIM) conference, on Tuesday was in London to meet with shadow ministers.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 12:05 UTC

  Falklands war anniversary: UK cities have scheduled a raft of events to mark the 40th anniversary of the conflict's end

  

  A series of lectures, memorials, exhibitions, and other events will be launched in the United Kingdom in the coming days to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. The aim is to commemorate the sacrifices made in 1982 and to celebrate the progress made in the South Atlantic archipelago over the past 40 years.