Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

  Labour pledges 150 major infrastructure projects and 1.5 million homes, biggest building boom in half century

  

  The new Labour government in Britain is pledging more giga-factories, solar farms, roads, and railway lines are set to be green-lighted in the next five years, adding billions to the economy, as part of stretching new milestones.

• Monday, December 9th 2024 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazil, UK partnership to decarbonize industries explained

  

  After Brazil and the United Kingdom agreed during COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month to join forces in decarbonizing industries in both countries in a move to protect the environment, Agência Brasil delved this weekend into the scope of such an understanding.

• Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Colombia says more time needed for visas with UK

  

  Colombia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Roy Barreras asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for a meeting to postpone the application of the visa requirement saying it was highly untimely to set it into force ahead of the Christmas Holidays.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 08:47 UTC

  The grand finale for JMC 2024, with PM Starmer and King Charles

  

  It was a grand finale for the two days Joint Ministerial Council held in London between the democratic representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories and the new UK government’s cabinet ministers, chaired by Foreign minister Stephen Doughty. In effect, Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the group at the end of the event, reaffirming his government’s commitment to the OTs and the principle, “nothing about you, without you”. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Falkland Islands, when remembering his family’s despair during the 1982 war, after HMS Antilope went down with much loss of lives, and hours later it was reported that Starmer’s mother brother, miraculously survived.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  UK to ax amphibious assault ships, a frigate 31 helicopters and obsolete drones

  

  Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and a pair of RFA support tankers will be decommissioned under a series of cost-saving measures announced on Wednesday to the House of Commons by Defense Secretary John Healey.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:35 UTC

  Successful trial of the Spear Missiles in Typhoons and F-35B fighters

  

  Royal Navy and Royal Air Force pilots will benefit from a cutting-edge new cruise missile, following the first successful guided firing trial of the SPEAR missile. SPEAR, which is a next generation turbojet-powered miniature cruise missile, successfully completed the trial after being fired from a BAE Systems-operated Typhoon jet at Vidsel range in Sweden.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands representative honors Fallen Heroes on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph

  

  Richard Hyslop, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, marked Remembrance Sunday by laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London, paying tribute on behalf of the Falkland Islands Government and people. He joined the UK Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and other representatives from the UK Overseas Territories in honoring those who lost their lives in service to the Allied Forces during the World Wars and the Falklands War.

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:50 UTC

  UN Fourth Committee, UK reaffirms principle of self determination of BOTs, as enshrined in the UN charter

  

  UK Ambassador Archie Young to the General Assembly at the UN Fourth Committee, explains the UK position regarding principles of equal rights and self-determination:

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:47 UTC

  UK Parliament to discuss new legislation for the Fisheries Management Plans

  

  New legislation implementing a range of short-term management measures for certain fish species was introduced to Parliament last week. These new arrangements have been identified within the first Fisheries Management Plans (FMP) as a priority to help provide additional protection to vulnerable stocks.

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:37 UTC

  The Tory “Rwanda migrants-deportation” deal turns into a Labour 'St Helena deal'

  

  Before the UK Boris Johnson administration finally struck the “Rwanda” deal to deport migrants and/or boat people crossing the English channel from the continent, (plus a generous donation of over £ 100 million for 'development'), some of the possible places considered even included the Falkland Islands, but the suggestion did not prosper.