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Tag: UK Overseas Territories

  • Monday, January 7th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

    New pound coin goes global with rollout to British Overseas Territories

    The coins are expected to feature images celebrating the heritage of these territories, with their history and culture pictured on the reverse side

    United Kingdom Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies will, for the first time, be able to design and mint their own versions of the new 12-sided £1 coin. The iconic £1 coin has long been recognized around the world and Brits living in UK territories may soon be able to spend unique versions of the new pound, replacing the older coins currently in use, reports the UK Treasury in an official release.

  • Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

    UK and Overseas Territories: “perhaps a review of relations is appropriate”

    Flags of the Union Jack and Gibraltar

    For years there was consensus between the major UK political parties about the Overseas Territories, but that has now changed and the OTs now face a “more hostile and less supportive UK political class,” Dr Peter Clegg said, adding that perhaps a review of relations is appropriate, one which would “offer the Territories more autonomy, address the UN’s decolonization agenda, and give the Territories a stronger foreign policy voice.”

  • Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

    UK funding to fight plastic pollution in St Helena and conservation projects in BOTs

    The new projects will see a scheme to reduce and monitor plastic pollution on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

    The United Kingdom government has announced a package of funding and support for UK Overseas Territories. The new projects will see a scheme to reduce and monitor plastic pollution on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic and a new data collecting and reporting system for Montserrat to help create long-term sustainable fisheries.

  • Friday, June 22nd 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Falklands and the Brexit impact outlined in London meetings

    MLA Teslyn Barkman (centre) Falkland Islands Representative in London Sukey Cameron (right) and UKOTA secretary, Kate Kandiah from the Cayman Islands<br />

    A Falkland Islands delegation recently travelled to London to attend the Joint Ministerial Council on European Negotiations, which basically is dealing with Brexit negotiations and its impact for Overseas Territories. The delegation was made up of MLA Teslyn Barkman, together with Senior Policy Advisor Richard Hyslop and were joined by Falklands London Representative Sukey Cameron

  • Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

    UK’s work on protecting the oceans has won deserved praise – now we must go further

    The review of the MPA designated within the waters surrounding South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands represents another globally significant opportunity

    By Matthew Offord MP for Hendon - UK leadership on ocean conservation has won international acclaim. The landmark “Blue Belt” policy to work with the UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” has only furthered this standing, with commitments to create large protected areas around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in 2019 and 2020 respectively already widely welcomed.

  • Thursday, October 5th 2017 - 09:31 UTC

    Brexit will hit Britain’s overseas territories hard – why is no one talking about it?

    The Falklands, on the other hand, look like being among the losers, according to Professor Paul Hare, Heriot-Watt University

    When the Brexit referendum result was announced last June, I was working on the Turks and Caicos Islands, one of the UK’s overseas territories in the Caribbean. A collection of about 40 tropical islands, of which eight are inhabited, people there were shocked at the result. They were annoyed they hadn’t had a chance to vote, and concerned about their future.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2017 - 14:36 UTC

    35th Anniversary of the Falkland Islands Conflict

    The Falkland Islands are a leader amongst UK Overseas Territories in self-governance, democracy, accountability and social development.

    June 14th 2017 marks the 35th anniversary of the surrender of Argentinean forces and the Liberation of the Falkland Islands. The date marks the end of the short but brutal conflict that lasted 74 days, following the Argentine invasion of April 2nd 1982.

  • Friday, April 29th 2016 - 06:27 UTC

    ''Vote Leave'' Chair says leaving the EU will not affect UK protection of Overseas Territories

    “Our overseas territories deserve our protection and they will continue to get it,” Ms Stuart said according to the transcript of the Foreign Affairs Committee

    Withdrawal from the European Union will not affect the protection the UK provides for its overseas territories, the chair of Vote Leave, Gisela Stuart, has told MPs in the House of Commons.

  • Sunday, December 21st 2014 - 11:39 UTC

    C24 slammed for failing to visit Falklands

    Britain ’s ambassador to the United Nations Sir Mark Lyall Grant

    Britain ’s ambassador to the United Nations has hit out at the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonisation (C24) for its “outdated” approach to dealing with overseas territories.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 06:39 UTC

    UK Overseas Territories celebrates 20tt anniversary at Westminster

    Albert Poggio, current UKOTA Chair, emphasized there is still a long way to go in establishing a modern relationship between London and Overseas Territories.

    A reception was held on the evening of November 4, in the Palace of Westminster to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA), as reported by the Gibraltar Chronicle.