23rd April 2024 Panama
Speech delivered on April 23, 2024 at the Launch of National Teachers Network & Training of Trainers Programme It’s a pleasure to be with you at this launch of the National Teachers Network & Training of Trainers Program. Congratulations to everyone involved in getting this exciting initiative to this point, and to everyone who is […]
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19th March 2024 Panama
First printed in the physical edition of La Prensa on 27th of February 2024. Twenty-five years ago I had the good fortune to be living in Russia. My wife and I spent almost four years in Moscow. We felt so lucky to be able to travel all around that most extraordinary country. In many ways, […]
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26th July 2017
On 27th July the United Kingdom will mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. On this day in 1967 the Sexual Offences Act was passed, decriminalising same-sex acts between consenting adults over the age of 21. Homosexual acts had until then been outlawed by legislation passed in the nineteenth century. Today we take […]
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22nd April 2014
Earlier this month the Peru-Argentina Friendship League organised a meeting in Congress under the title “Peru and the Falkland Islands: history of a Latin American common cause”*. I wasn’t invited to attend but I have read a report of the event with interest. The topics of the Falkland Islands, of the invasion of the islands […]
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18th June 2013
Today the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is hosting the annual G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, with the Heads of State of Germany, Canada, USA, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and Russia. With these countries still comprising half of global GDP, the bold steps we take by working together through the G8 can make a […]
19th April 2013
This Sunday 21st of April we celebrate The Queen’s birthday, an opportunity to celebrate the good relationship between our countries as well. I am frequently asked by children here what the difference is between Great Britain and Scotland and England and the United Kingdom. It can seem rather complicated, I know. In the United Kingdom […]
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8th March 2013
On 10th and 11th March voters in the Falkland Islands will be taking part in a referendum on whether they want to stay being British. They have decided to organise the referendum because they want the world to hear what they think and want for the islands where they live and for future generations. They want […]
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5th December 2012
In June this year the Falkland Islands Government announced their intention to hold a referendum on their sovereignty in 2013. The islanders want to tell the world what their views are in a clear, democratic and incontestable way. Their government has decided a referendum is the best way to achieve this. They will be looking […]
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27th August 2012
By James Dauris, British Ambassador to Peru On August 10th, I attended a presentation by Pedro Gamio and Henry García – two Peruvian specialists in the energy sector – on their latest work on renewable energies within the Peruvian context. It focused on highlighting the importance of renewable energies when the world’s energy needs are […]
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13th July 2012
This year, for the second year running, I have had the honour of sitting on the Technical Team that considers the applications to be considered in the “Good Practices in Public Management Prize”, a competition organised each year by Ciudadanos al Dia (CAD). As CAD explain on their website (www.ciudadanosaldia.org), the organisation is a private, […]
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