A meeting of Executive Council (ExCo) was held on 27 January 2026. The agenda for the meeting was as follows:   CLOSED AGENDA   Declaration of Interest   Confirmation of Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting held on 18 November 2025   Matters Arising from Minutes of 18 November 2025 ...

Press Release St Helena Activates Phase 1 of the Drought Management Plan   The St Helena Resilience Forum – Warning and Informing Group, in consultation with Connect Saint Helena Ltd, has officially moved the island into Stage One of the Drought Response Plan. This action is necessary to protect our ...

PRESS RELEASE Report on Executive Council for 27 th January 2026   A meeting of Executive Council was held on 22 nd December 2025 which considered papers on Budget Planning and Cost Recovery Principles. Decisions on these papers was deferred to allow time for Members to be briefed in detail, ...

Tristan Forever – Film Premiere in Berlin   Tristan Forever is a feature-length Swiss ‘docufiction’ film that features the story of French doctor Loran Bonnardot as he travels to Tristan da Cunha to fulfil a search for solitude.   For thirty years, the doctor from Paris has maintained a friendship with ...

Update from Thwaites Glacier: when science doesn’t go your way   4 February, 2026 BAS News stories   Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and South Korea (KOPRI) have concluded a highly ambitious field operation at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, after instruments deployed during hot-water drilling became lodged within ...

The Emergency Planning Department wishes to inform the public that the island’s Early Warning System, commonly known as the Klaxon, has been officially suspended.   The system was originally purchased in 2021, using external funds, with the intent to provide an audible emergency alert for the residents of Jamestown and Rupert’s. ...

UK troops train for combat in live-fire Falklands   By Lisa West February 4, 2026     Here soldiers demonstrate effective land & air interoperability when on exercises, training at the highest level. pic.twitter.com/LQMa6keRXo An infantry company from the Royal Irish Regiment has completed its final major training exercise in the ...

Avian flu halves South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals By Rob Hutchins   Oceanographic Magazine   New research has documented the first major impact of the avian influenza HPAI on the world’ largest southern elephant seal population – a colony that represents more than half all breeding-age individuals globally.   A ...

FALKLAND ISLANDS GOVERNMENT PRESS STATEMENT 9 February 2026 Independent Review of Confidentiality – Survey Reminder   The Falkland Islands Government wishes to remind the public that the public survey in relation to confidentiality practices at the KEMH is available until 20th February 2026 at the following link; https://forms.office.com/e/05aNG27aPh   The survey ...

FALKLAND ISLANDS GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 10 February 2026   Withdrawal of old paper banknotes from circulation   The Treasury Department would like to inform the public that following the release of the new Falkland Islands polymer banknotes in August 2025, all remaining £20, £10 & £5 old style paper ...