Tag: Lewis Clifton

• Thursday, September 17th 2026 - 08:45 UTC

  Falklands MLA says islands have “state of the art” defense technology

  

  A member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly said the archipelago's current defenses are sufficient, in response to questions raised in Westminster over the maintenance of the armed forces and the equipment deployed in the islands.

• Monday, May 18th 2026 - 05:37 UTC

  The Falklands turn into a small South Atlantic economic power as the ghosts of 1982 return

  

  The Falkland Islands are going through their traditional “commemoration season,” the cycle of ceremonies that recall the 1982 war each year, culminating in Liberation Day on 14 June, at a moment defined by two overlapping realities: the consolidation of the archipelago as a small economic power in the South Atlantic and the reactivation of diplomatic tensions with the United States and Argentina. A feature published on Saturday by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, written by Matthew Campbell from Fitzroy, captures the contrast between growing economic prosperity and the anxiety generated by the recent leak of a Pentagon memorandum.

• Monday, December 15th 2025 - 19:44 UTC

  Falklands, First Sitting of the new Legislative Assembly

  

  The Falkland Islands newly elected Legislative Assembly held its first sitting Monday 15th December following the General Election on the 11th of December. At the sitting, all Members swore the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Due Execution of Office, marking the commencement of the 2025-2029 Assembly’s term.

• Saturday, December 13th 2025 - 09:43 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ newly elected lawmakers sworn in after landmark election

  

  The newly elected members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly (MLAs) were formally sworn in on Friday during a ceremony at Government House, marking the start of a new four-year legislative term following a highly disruptive general election.

• Friday, December 12th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands Election: Renewed Legislative; oath ceremony at Government House

  

  As anticipated, close to 11:00pm Thursday 11 December, the results of the Falkland Islands general election were announced by the Returning Officer Dr. Andrea Clausen, and the integration of the new Legislative Assembly for the next four years was confirmed.

• Saturday, July 15th 2023 - 19:25 UTC

  Falklands farmers consider the new agriculture challenge and climate change

  

  Pulling together Rural Business Association Members (RBA) policymakers and experts on the impact of climate change in the Falkland Islands was the aim of Chair of the RBA Lewis Clifton at Farmers Week, he told Penguin News (PN) in an interview recently.

• Friday, July 7th 2023 - 07:10 UTC

  Economic storm brewing in Falkland Islands rural sector; low wool prices and sales paralyzed

  

  There's an “economic storm” brewing in the Falklands' rural sector said Chair of the Rural Business Lewis Clifton on Wednesday night. At the Farmers Week Reception hosted by Governor Alison Blake, Mr. Clifton gave a speech and spoke to Penguin News about the problems farmers are facing because of climate change and other economic factors.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Falklands startled at Westminster paper proposing UK citizens right to vote in Overseas Territories

  

  “Belongership” and its equivalents are wrong,” it is emphatically stated in a startling paper from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. The paper says the belongership status (known as Falklands Status in the Falklands) as enshrined in the constitutions of a number of British Overseas Territories, including the Falklands, denies legally-resident British Overseas Territory and UK citizens the right to vote and to hold elected office.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  “The Falkland Islands belong to you, the Islanders”. The key to “Malvinas is in the hands of Islanders”

  

  Twenty years ago, this month, one of Argentina's then leading political analysts and journalist publicly admitted the Falkland Islands belong to the Islanders. Mariano Grondona had been invited to the Islands by the Legislative Council and during a gathering with locals said the famous quote, “The Falkland Islands belong to you, the Islanders”.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 21:05 UTC

  Looking forward and promoting Falklands’ younger generation

  

  As the years pass, Veterans and Islanders alike who were caught up in the Falklands War, are getting older; many, regrettably are no longer with us. Age takes its toll, and sadly a number of potential guests declined due to failing health, reads the message from Lewis Clifton OBE, Chairman of the 2012 Committee.