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Roger Spink MLA said: We have like the rest of the world, experienced a significant financial impact as a result of the pandemic, nevertheless we are still delivering a surplus in the current year.
The Falkland Islands Government yesterday published its budget for the upcoming financial year, describing it as a prudent budget that focuses on stability and continuity. The budget forecasts operating expenditure of £78.3m and revenues of £92.2m, as well as a capital programme totalling £53.5m for the upcoming financial year.
Health related expenditure accounts for the largest share of the proposed investment at £24.6m, followed by infrastructure and communications (£11.6m) and education and training (£10.1m).
Scene setting Mr Speaker, Honourable Members. Whilst it has only been a year since I last delivered my Annual Address, it seems a very long time ago, not.
The far-flung Falklands are strangely beautiful
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Distant, windswept, and virtually treeless, the Falkland Islands are not high on many people’s travel wish-lists. 8,000 miles across the South Atlantic, they’re a vestige of empire whose kinship with Britain still inspires murmurs of resentment from next-door Argentina. And this is undoubtedly one of the things that makes them so fascinating.
Visiting the Falklands is to be plunged back into a conflict that still haunts its people. But the Falklands are also strangely beautiful: it’s a country the size of Wales with a human population of barely 3,000, extraordinary bird life, marine mammals, and vast craggy landscapes