Tag: UK Overseas Territories

• Thursday, June 12th 2025 - 23:30 UTC

  Starmer is teeing up Gibraltar for another Overseas betrayal, Falklands next?, RUSI scholar

  

  Dr. Samuel Ramani is a distinguished scholar from UK think-tank RUSI, (Royal United Services Institute), and has written a piece of the Gibraltar Agreement, which place him close to the Conservative’s position which asks if the Falklands could probably be next.

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• Monday, June 2nd 2025 - 19:53 UTC

  Falkland's Legislative Assembly celebrates Overseas Territories Day

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly joined fellow British Overseas Territories in celebrating Overseas Territories Day on 2 June 2025, highlighting the strength, diversity, and common values that unite the UK’s territories across the globe.

• Friday, April 18th 2025 - 11:01 UTC

  Falklands/Darwin Plus: RSPB fears on Budget for UK conservation fund in Overseas Territoriesa

  

  The Royal Society for Protection of Birds, RSPB, has strongly defended scientific research in the UK Overseas Territories, which face an uncertain future as core funding is threatened by the austerity of UK’s economic and budgetary reforms.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  “Gibraltar, the Falklands and other overseas territories deserve MPs” from LabourList

  

  The suggestion, proposal, or idea or however you may wish to call it is not new. Still, the UK government’s recent decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, to the Republic of Mauritius has caused outrage from some and disbelief from others. Still, it has again brought to discussion if other Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands and/or Gibraltar need to have representation at Westminster.

• Friday, April 26th 2024 - 10:01 UTC

  World Penguin Day: 9 out of 18 species breed in UK Overseas Territories, RSPB report

  

  April 25 is World Penguin Day, from the impressive 1.2m tall Emperor Penguins of the British Antarctic Territory to the smaller, agile Southern Rockhopper Penguins of the Falkland Islands – nine out of 18 penguin species breed in the UK Overseas and British Antarctic Territories. Follows a report from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, RSPB.

• Monday, September 4th 2023 - 07:38 UTC

  Brexit tariffs, not the EU’s Malvinas blunder, are the real issue worrying Falkland Islanders

  

  Boris Johnson’s deal made no provision for exports from the UK overseas territories
  
  By Teslyn Barkman (*) – In July, a joint communiqué signed in Brussels by 60 European Union and Latin American nations referred to the Falkland Islands as the “Islas Malvinas” despite last-minute attempts by UK foreign secretary James Cleverly to persuade them to drop the reference.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  UK funds for Darwin Initiative to tackle nature-loss in Overseas Territories including the Falklands

  

  Efforts to boost biodiversity recovery in the UK Overseas Territories have been bolstered by the British government with large-scale projects funded for the first time to tackle nature loss.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  New Darwin Plus Initiative funding for Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve

  

  Threatened species across the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are set to benefit from £6.4 million in government funding announced on Monday 23 May. Green turtles and the West Indian whistling duck are just some of the species that will be boosted by a share of the Darwin Plus Initiative. Likewise Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve and Peatlands.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  UK MPs suggest asylum seekers crossing the English Channel be sent to Falklands

  

  According to UK news reports, the British government is becoming quite desperate about the asylum seekers braving the English Channel, a record 25,000 so far this year, and all sorts of radical measures to contain the increase in arrivals are being considered, including sending the refugees south to the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.