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Four days after government hosted a workshop to train public officers how to handle sargassum, the seaweed caused a widespread power outage on Sunday as the territory was affected by a regional heat wave. Though the BVI Electricity Corporation and central government were mum about the shutdown as of the Beacon’s deadline yesterday afternoon, Communications

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The United Kingdom government is developing a new overseas territories strategy, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley and other OT leaders during the Joint Ministerial Council meetings this month in London.

SCIENTISTS from around the globe took part in a two-day workshop at the University of Gibraltar on how best to preserve Windmill Hill Flats. Minister of

Following on the success of the Coronation of Charles III, representatives of the UK Overseas Territories had ample time to make political contacts with British members of Parliament, cabinet ministers and other officials, in anticipation of the Joint Ministerial Council on May 11/12.

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Deadline: 2-Oct-23 Submissions are now being accepted for the Round 12 of the Darwin Plus Fellowship Program to build capacity in the UKOTs through

Ghost orchid in the Ironwood Forest (CNS): The critically endangered endemic ghost orchid has been given a fighting chance against extinction after local conservationist Christine Rose-Smyth, the former chair of the National Conservation Council, secured funding from the UK. A Darwin Plus Local grant will be used to develop an ex situ propagation programme for…

A new film and discussion series were launched recently as part of efforts to find a way to protect the marine reptiles.

Efforts to boost biodiversity recovery in the UK Overseas Territories have been bolstered by the British government with large-scale projects funded for the first time to tackle nature loss.