Duke of Kent will visit the Falklands as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations
Falklands Government House announced on Tuesday the dates for the visit to the Islands by His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent.
The Duke will visit from November 8-13 as part of the events being held to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen.
During his visit he will undertake a number of official functions including opening the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute and unveiling a plaque at the site of the Historic Dockyard; he will also visit the hospital and the Community School.
The Duke will participate in remembrance activities with visiting veterans at San Carlos on November 9 and at the Liberation Monument on November 10.
He will also attend the services in Christ Church Cathedral and at the Cross of Sacrifice in Stanley on Remembrance Sunday.
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My president visiting Malvinas! What an honour!
(All England ......... Croquet Club)
Is cousin Lizzy coming next year for the 180'th anniversary of Brutish occupation?
There are no Malvinas
Next year is the 160th anniversary of the occupation of Argentina, congratulations!
Tell me, how many Amerindians did your ancestors murder? Oh that's right, nearly all of them.
Argentina will no doubt complain to the UN that the UK is increasing its military presence on the island, because the Duke of Kent used to be in the Army and still is the honorary Colonel of the Scots Guards, the Colonel in Chief of the Royal Regiment of Fusillers, the Royal Coloel of the 1st Bn the Rifles, and Colonel in Chief of the Lorne Scots Regiment in Canada. He is also an honorary Air-Vice Marshall.
Oh, the Argentines will be shaking in their boots. I mean 1st we send an unarmed search and rescue pilot, and now we are sending a retired soldier!
By the way Argentine posters. It's no business of yours where our Royals visit, especially when it's our own territory.
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
........and of course TMBOA/ Ol' Turkey Neck / KFC is such a looker!!! She should be a model!! a model for tractor parts!! No there is a woman with the PERFECT face for radio!!! LOL
I take CFK and you just go for the Duke
:))))
There is not any tennis event around there on these days?
And any boy scouts events?
none?
becouse they are all very unsightly.
“Malvinas! ”
No, he will be visiting the Falkland Islands, as evidenced by the huge signs on the Islands that spell it out, there are no Malvinas except in your imagination.
I'd guess Agriculture, Hospitality or Construction, they're the most common (excluding working for FIG) according to the census (page 9 here: www.falklands.gov.fk//documents/Headline%20Results%20from%20Census%202012.pdf )
the losers are out and about,
anti british..
@9 At least, unlike most argies, he has a mother.
@12 Good idea. She likes associating with morons. Tinpotman, PutridJelly, Florence the Randy, CarlTomato, Norbert the Yahoo, Juan Manservant.
@14 Jealous, Vegeburger?
Is this not true.
.
your garden
do it yourself.
We force for the independence of Scotland and Wales too, and why not, Northern Ireland!
it seems argentina knows no bounds,
what next
will you force the poor british to bow to you plastic queen.
or is the reality nearer the truth.
you had nothing.
you have nothing.
you will always have nothing.
but envy of the british.
carry on..
You can teal something that belongs to you.
Argentina tried to steal the islands, just like Argentina stole YPF from Repsol, just like Argentina stole money from investors, just like Argentina stole money from its own people's pension schemes.
Argentina's actions equal thieves and pirates.
It must just make you so mad to know that you will never be able to steal the Falklands. It must make you angry to know that next year the international community will ratify the Falkland Islands referendum on status making your chances of every getting your thieving hands on the Falklands somewhere been slim and none.
The whole world laughs at your countries representatives as they continuously embarrass your country. You must be so proud of them.
Referendum on the Malvinas Argentinas: “This is a consultation made by British to other British if they want to remain British.” These thieves have no limits ...
@23 Doubtful if you could “force” a fart.
@26 For God's sake, why? Could you get a country more anal, belligerent, cheating, cowardly, degenerate, dishonest, faggot-filled, genocidal, illegitimate, mendacious, necrophiliac, paedophiliac, useless, vicious, witless and xenophobic? This you are proud of? What you need to do is to buy a speargun. Load it. Shove it up your arse. Aim it at your ear. Pull the trigger.
A referendum on the Falkland Islands (there are no Malvinas) to demonstrate the strength of feeling of the Islanders? What's your problem? Of course, argies are experts on thieving. As they have thieved so much. Committing murder/genocide at the same time. Can anybody think of a good reason not to fire an arrow or crossbow bolt through the genitals of every argie?
Just that they don't all have them; those that have would make a very small target.
Given the characteristics of its known and respected criteria of your editors staff, really think you guys should consider and nominate Mr Conqueror (27) and Mr UncleTed (28) as legitimate Literature Nobel winners or peace Nobel winners.
It would be honorable part of you do this because you have proven to all comunitie in this forum to be an independent, unbiased, serious and reliable media allways with the truth.
Regards.
Don't count on the peace prize for conqueror. To recieve that one you need to commit atrocities, talk only wont suffice...
I'm proud to be Argentinian!!
““domains” stolen overseas”
They couldn't have been stolen in 1833 as great Britain had a claim on them dating from 1690 by landing and 1765 by settlement .
Try again with your Hitler-originated Peronist bullsh1t.
Could be shared USA-UK peace noble prize ?
because in total both kill until now 500.000 civilians in afganistan/iraq/libya invented “wars”.
an example for humanity
What can I say? We are lucky the rest of the world aren't so peaceful as them ;)
Since the Falkland Islanders have lived on their islands longer than Argentina has existed, that makes it theirs. The referendum will leave the international community in no doubt about what they want.
Tell me Jose, which native Amerindian tribe does your name come from? Oh that's right it's a European name from Spain.
Tell me, how many native Amerindians did your ancestors murder? Or did your ancestors arrive in Agentina sometime in the 20 century?
Argentina's sovereignty claims are ludicrous, downright lies. If you had any solid claim you would've taken it to the ICJ on the 3 seperate occasions that the UK asked you to.
You refused because you know your claims are lies with nothing to substantiate them. The British and the Falkland Islanders have that pesky little thing called evidence, which proves Argentina lies.
It's about time you started sorting out Argentina. If Argentina run properly, without corruption, lies and other unsavoury characteristics such as bribery, the Falklanders may have chosen to associate with your country.
But you are just a bunch of national socialist facist thugs who want to steal other people's property and murder them. Argentina today is barely better than the Junta of the 80's, and it is on the slippery slide of returning to those bad old days, yet people like you stand by and applaud it.
It really does beggar belief.
Ideologies aside, explain to me, how can a democratically elected government, like it or not, be compared to a forcefully imposed dictatorship? Is every country not of your liking a dictatorship by definition? What if the Argentines choose to walk that path, who are you to point fingers?
A country the smaller than one of your provinces and look what it achieved?
Stand by for the predictable responses, fueled by envy, jealousy and the ever present sense of resentment displayed by all low achievers.
....such old man...might be his last wishes!
I am wondering in what hotel or private mansion he plans to stay...
and food?.....
Or are the Chilean football fans correct?
Have you told how much lasts the trip??
Its hard for such an old mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
bien ahi yoruga
then perhaps argentina has far to much land.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
The islanders born in the islands around 1000 and declining (a crowd!), Came after the expulsion of the government and people of Argentina. The other 2000 (another crowd!) “descended” from the European-British islets after traveling 14,000 km, perhaps with the exception of 300 Chileans. Then we have other 3000 soldiers and civilian employees of them in Monte Agradable (NATO bah!) = Treaty Organization NORTH Atlantic. So the referendum is a fraud.
I have no problem, except the logical tired of repeating to the thieves -no so deaf as those who will not hear- the truth history of the islands:
Discovered by Spain (our motherland) in 1501-1502 by Vespuccio. First colonized by the French Bougainville in 1764. Delivered to Spain in 1767 who from that year until 1811 ruled them for 44 years without interruption from Puerto Soledad. Produced Independence Argentina, taking possession on behalf of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata in 1820. Five Argentine governors until the dispossession of 1833, where the British had to haul down the flag of Argentina and expel the authority designated by Buenos Aires.
The British, who had only been on one little island of Trinidad in 1765 (they did a little fort destroyed by the Spanish), they leave THAT little island in 1774 under the Declaration Masserano. That is only Spain and Argentina ruled the entire Malvinas Islands from Puerto Soledad. It took 59 years! between 1774 and 1833.
“Came after the expulsion of the government and people of Argentina.”
In 1833 the people on the Islands from Buenos Aires who were civilians (there was NO Argentina in 1833) were allowed to stay not expelled, so you are wrong again.
The truth hurts.
”other 2000 (another crowd!) “descended” from the European-British islets after traveling 14,000 km, perhaps with the exception of 300 Chilean”
Wrong again-150 Gauchos came to live in the Falklands in the mid 1800s to work for Lafone many becoming islanders.
Also there were several people shipwrecked on the Islands who settled on the Falklands, who were not British.
What about the black slaves, (freed by the British in 1833)who stayed on in the islands one dying in 1871? They weren't Britsh either.
The Falkland Islanders, despite Argentina's blatant lies, are not wholly derived from British settlers.
So Jose, wrong, wrong and wrong again.
Salute
Listen to an alternative history.
Caesar today announce he was going fishing to find new feeding grounds,
He and his army landed in a strange land, with a few natives running around playing kiss chase,
Caesar decided to conquer this land, kiss the girls and kill everyone else, later they called this land argitena, signed a bit of paper stating this land is ROMAN forever,
Today 2,000 years later, CFK puts in a claim for the old roman treasures that she claimed argelandy is entitles to by deed or arriarse,
CFK now claims all of Italy and all former ROMAN lands and colonies,
Including, most of the Mediterranean countries.
There, ,,,,
Oh sorry I forgot, Caesar never got to the Falklands, as it was guarded by the ancient Britons .lololol.
ya goottaa larf..
Regarding the gauchos, very good! If something is true, is that the Malvinas Argentinas is land GAUCHA and not GRINGA.
In 1833 there were civilians and Argentine military in the islands, and the fact that there gauchos in them, was the need of the usurpers of his great skills with the cattle that had been scattered in field and farm work. The fact that Argentina had remained in the islands, the first shows were populated by Argentines to be Argentine, and second, does not alter the fact the flagrant usurpation. The same English says: as shown, a “button”:
“The British occupation of 1833 was at the time an act of wanton aggression”, Memorandum of the British Foreign Office official, 1946.
Of course, we do not need you to tell the English to know ....!
The gauchos like Rivero in 1833 accepted British rule. There were also Swedish, Danish and German settlers,so by your reckoning then all these countries have a claim on the Falklands, oh and Gibraltra and St Helena as well.
It also means because Ushaia was settled by British first, as well as areas of Patagonia settled by Falklands born people in the 1800 s(before settlement by Argentinians) that the UK/Falkland Islands have a territorial claim on Patatgonia.
That would be good news for Southern Argentina as BA can't run a p1ss up in a brewery.
This is the real Isolde....keep the old man you know where....
lol
Is a genuine British lady. and probably very refined,
Like most brits………
#56 is mad Soozy.
Halloo soozy, are you me today? who will you be tomorrow?
Welcome to the club!
lol
or as they say in Australia, as “mad as a two bob watch”
keep the old man in your arse and skru da UK kueen 2!
slobber, slobber, drool, drool. he he he he.
fidlesticks!
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