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10th July 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Who you gonna call? Consular services in Colombo
Sri Lanka and the Maldives have never been more popular for beach-lovers, backpackers or Brits: over 144,000 British tourists visited Sri Lanka last year, and almost 16,000 holidayed in the Maldives in February alone this year. Around five thousand British Nationals have set down permanent or semi-permanent roots here too. For the most part, travellers […]
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9th July 2015 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 29 June-5 July 2015
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9th July 2015 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Importance of a Humanitarian Pause
The people of Yemen have been suffering for too long. On 1 July the UN declared the crisis in Yemen to be a Level Three Emergency: a category reserved for the most severe, large scale and complex crises in the world. This highlights that the Yemeni people are in dire peril. Many civilians have died […]
7th July 2015 Geneva, Switzerland
Magic Numbers
UN diplomats spend much of their lives fretting about securing exactly the right words in international documents. I’ve seen a whole day of negotiations conclude with only a comma added, to mutual back-slapping and a general sense of a job well done, and have spent weeks painfully debating the insertion of a footnote or an […]
6th July 2015 Asuncion, Paraguay
Promocionando Paraguay en el Reino Unido
Nuestro último blog se enfoca en una de las prioridades de la Embajada: la de promover más comercio e inversión en Paraguay. Benjamin Hawksbee, un miembro clave de nuestro equipo, gerente del nuevo Centro de Negocios Paraguayo-Británico localizado en la Embajada habla sobre las iniciativas que toma en conjunto con la rejuvenecida Cámara de Comercio […]
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6th July 2015 Asuncion, Paraguay
Promoting Paraguay in the UK
Out latest blog focuses on one of our Embassy priorities: promoting more trade and investment in Paraguay. Benjamin Hawksbee, a key member of our team who manages the new British Business Centre located in the Embassy, talks about the exciting initiatives he is taking in partnership with a rejuvenated British Paraguayan Chamber of Commerce to […]
6th July 2015 Brasilia, Brazil
Our woman In… Ribeirão Preto – Guestpost by Jaqueline Wilkins
When Almeida Júnior painted O Caipira Picando Fumo in 1893, a work that so well portrayed the ordinary man in the interior of São Paulo, he did not imagine that 122 years later the caipira would be enjoying high-quality operas, producing urban culture in its various forms, travelling abroad and enjoying international cuisine, driving Land […]
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6th July 2015 Madrid, Spain
Three thoughts on ambition, hunger and impact
I spent a lot of March, April, May and June preparing, discussing, drafting, revising, finalising, submitting, quality controlling and validating staff performance appraisals. I reckon I was involved in well over 100. I know many of my colleagues will have worked on many, many more. It’s important work so it has to be rigorous, transparent […]
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6th July 2015 London, UK
Come and join our digital team
The FCO has a well established reputation for its digital work. At the heart of driving change is the Digital Transformation Unit, a talented team made up of diplomats and digital specialists working on digital solutions crucial to the UK – tackling conflict, increasing prosperity and helping Brits in trouble overseas. Here’s what’s coming up:- […]
2nd July 2015
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Celebrating Waterloo in the Caribbean
While the ceremonies to mark the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo took place in Europe, tucked away in a corner of the Caribbean a more modest event with some 100 participants, including the Premier of TCI and former Chief Ministers, was held to mark another “Waterloo”. In 1815 a wealthy Bermudan salt merchant, […]