Stories for October 2004 , page 9

Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Falkland Conservation Director to leave.

The Director of the Falkland Islands principal non-governmental environmental research and protection organization will be leaving the Islands in March 2005.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

LAN's Enrique Cueto selected CEO of the Year.

Latin Finance magazine citing ten straight years of profits and a whopping 300% jump in stock prices since 2002, has named LAN Chile's Enrique Cueto as its CEO of the Year. The magazine's October 2004 issue ? dedicated to infrastructure investment ? carries a wide-ranging interview with the Chilean airline executive written by Mary Dempsey.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Record US trade deficit last August.

Oil prices and China's monetary competitiveness are blamed for the last August 54 billion US dollars trade deficit, the second highest in recent United States history.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Paraguay shocked by lack of law and order.

Thousands of Paraguayans took to the streets of the capital Asunción to protest increasing crime following a wave of killings and kidnappings.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Former OAS President Under House Arrest.

A San Jose court on Saturday placed former Costa Rica President and OAS Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez under six months' house arrest while awaiting trial on corruption charges.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

'The Patagonian toothfish needs protection'

Environmentalists urged fishing nations to do more to protect the rare Patagonian toothfish, dubbed the “white gold” of the sea which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

HMS Cardiff concludes S. Atlantic deployment.

HMS Cardiff returns from South Atlantic deployment next Friday (22/10) having had a West African school named after her. Sierra Leone president Ahmad Kabbah was so impressed with building work carried out at a Freetown school by 100 HMS Cardiff sailors he renamed the institution in their honour.

Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Chilean Navy delegation in Ushuaia celebration.

A delegation of Chilean naval authorities travelled last October 12 to Ushuaia, Argentina, specially invited by their Argentine Navy counterparts to participate in the city's 120th anniversary.

Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Executive order puts Lan Peru back in the air.

Lan Peru resumed domestic and international flights this Friday afternoon following an emergency executive order signed last night by Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo leaving without effect a Court ruling that suspended the company's operations for five days beginning Friday.

Saturday, October 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Judge upholds Argentine government in hake dispute.

An Argentine Federal Court Judge from Rawson, José Eduardo Pinsker turned down legal appeals which would have allowed 11 vessels belonging to five companies to continue catching common hake (Merluccius hubbsi).