Tag: Mark Pollard MLA

• Friday, September 13th 2024 - 08:05 UTC

  Falklands lawmakers in round of political contacts in UK

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLAs Leona Roberts and Mark Pollard who will be doing the round of United Kingdom political parties conferences, have also taken the opportunity to intensify strong bonds with political contacts in London.

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• Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 03:44 UTC

  Falklands, Self Determination in the 21st Century, Lib-Dems Conference

  

  The Liberal-Dem Party new MP for Surrey Heath, Dr Al Pinkerton, was, until his election on July an Associate Professor of Geopolitics specializing in international borders and boundary disputes. Next Sunday, at Conference, he’ll be chairing a fringe meeting about the Falkland Islands at 11:30 am in the Regent Room at the Grand Hotel. 

• Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Falklands to attend Lib-Dem, Labour and Conservative parties conventions

  

  A delegation from the Falkland Islands Government will be attending the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences this year, while it will also be holding the first ever fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton with a conference titled, “Falkland Islands: Self determination in the 21st century”.

• Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:30 UTC

  PM Starmer's commitment with the Falkland Islands

  

  Every year the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly sends two of its members to the round of United Kingdom political parties conferences, mainly Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, held in UK to strongly lobby for the Islands.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

  Falkland Islands progresses port facility project with Harland and Wolff

  

  In a bid to enhance its infrastructure, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has taken significant steps towards the replacement of the Stanley port facility, known as FIPASS. Following recent executive council meetings, two pivotal papers have been approved to advance the project.

• Friday, December 15th 2023 - 08:12 UTC

  UK and Overseas Territories, “a modern partnership for a stronger British family”

  

  The Government of the United Kingdom, and democratically elected Governments of the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, Ascension, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Turks and Caicos Islands met on 14 to 15 November 2023 to decide the following Joint Declaration.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:15 UTC

  Falklands lawmaker reaffirms self determination and questions Argentina's claim

  

  Falkland Islands elected member of the Legislative Assembly, Mark Pollard speaking with the UK media insisted on the Islands' people right to self determination and even questioned that the Falklands ever belonged to Argentina.

• Friday, October 13th 2023 - 07:43 UTC

  Falklands Legislative Assembly sends message of support to the people of Israel

  

  The Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly has condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, and has sent a message of support to the people of Israel at this very difficult time.

• Friday, August 18th 2023 - 09:56 UTC

  Falklands discusses Capital projects and how to make them more understandable

  

  Capital projects, purpose, priorities, financing, timetable, over costs, and delivery have been and are a headache for most governments in the world and under the most diverse systems. And Falklands, with ample funds and surplus budgets. could be no exception, thus progress on how capital projects are reported publicly was discussed in the Standing Finance Committee last week.

• Friday, July 28th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  MLAs debate, income distribution and social inequality stats in the Falkland Islands

  

  Social inequality is likely to be lower in the Falkland Islands than in countries with similar incomes according to the Chief Executive - so the people here are better off he says. But he also suggested that commonly used tools for measuring social inequality in larger countries might not be appropriate for the Falklands.