The 2005 Loligo squid catch with 58.700 tons was described as a reasonable year by Falkland Islands Fisheries Department Director John Barton.
Chilean flagged Mare Australis with 80 passengers officially inaugurated this week the Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego 2005/06 cruise season which this summer is scheduled to receive 310 calls and over 100,000 visitors.
Taxi driver jailed for ?free ride' sex offences; Falklands team meets Lord Triesman; Pearce baby arrives; Peat Cutting this Monday;
Two Japanese scientists managed for the first time ever to photograph a live giant squid, was reported in the Royal Society B Proceedings journal.
A United States grand federal jury in Miami indicted Spanish national Antonio Vidal Pego and the Uruguayan corporation Fadilur S.A. for conspiring to sell illegally possessed toothfish.
According to Rick Hall, a representative of the electronics company Cable & Wireless, the Falkland Islands should, by December this year, join the rest of the world by having a mobile telephone system.
Dr Liam Fox, currently shadow Foreign Minister for the British Conservative Party and bidding for Tory leadership said that reaffirmation of Gibraltar's right to self-determination is paramount.
Falklands Councillors, speaking at the final session of the present Legislature before it is dissolved, strongly condemned the hard-line and agressive attitude towards the Islands, adopted by President Kirchner and the present Argentine Government.
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The Argentine film Enlightened by fire about the Falkland Islands 1982 conflict was awarded Saturday a special prize by the jury of the 53 San Sebastian International Cinema Festival.
Stand-off in East Stanley; Another early Falklands' baby; Last LegCo meeting; Telecoms on the agenda; Rig unavailability delays Desire's drilling.