According to the most recent census, in 2001, there were 1,989 persons, living in Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. As this number includes everyone from babies to the old and infirm, it doesn't take much mental effort to compute that the arrival, all at once, of a further 1,600 people on board the Cunard liner, QE2, constitutes an invasion of significant proportions.
As the date for Gibraltar's constitutional reform talks with the British Government approaches, Chief Minister Peter Caruana declared that the Gibraltar delegation will be holding discreet talks with UK officials next week.
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The Falklands team landed in a heat and drought stricken Victoria on the 24th November to begin their final preparations for the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games in Bendigo, Australia. Roxane Morrison joined the team the day after following some minor hiccups along the way.
During the Motion for Adjournment of the Legislative Council meeting, two councillors took the opportunity to criticize the Argentinean government for ignoring their existence and the Commander of British Forces issued an assurance that force levels would not be reduced.
Queen Elizabeth II or Q2 as she's better known with her majestic presence left Saturday midday for the Falkland Islands with 1,500 cruise passengers and 1,000 crew after calling 24 hours in Montevideo.
A scale model of the solar system, described as ”unique' by its creator, was unveiled in Stanley on Saturday afternoon by Miss Sukey Cameron, Falkland Islands Government Representative in London.
Headlines:
Meet Argentina head on';
Petition lodged requesting changed Murrell road route;
News in brief: New child sex charge; Cruise ships this week; House and Camp fires.
Under the poignant motto of One is like the memories we chose to preserve and before a packed auditorium the Families Commission that groups the next-of-kin of servicemen killed during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict premiered its documentary film Locos de la bandera Lunatics of the flag - A documentary on the war and post war in Argentina.
THE Falkland Islands Development Board (FIDB) has approved funds for the visit from a sheep skin specialist.
Three winning concept designs for a new research station in Antarctica are announced yesterday Wednesday 24 November, at the Halley VI Design Exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).