Falkland Islands

• Monday, March 16th 2009 - 19:54 UTC

  Cruise visitors spend £3million per year in Falklands

  

  VISITORS arriving in the Falklands in Cruise and Expedition vessels spend over £3 million per annum on tours, shopping, and food and beverages, according to a survey conducted over the summer season.

• Friday, March 13th 2009 - 12:57 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Falklands representative joins Saints’ airport protest; Stanley Co-op members hoping for a final dividend; Mrs K may get her meeting with Brown.

• Thursday, March 12th 2009 - 09:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance begins month long piggy-back journey to Portsmouth

  

  British Ice patrol HMS Endurance is ready to be piggy-backed from the Falkland Islands to Portsmouth because of a week’s delay in welding her to the deck of heavy load ship Target. She’s expected back in a month’s time.

• Thursday, March 12th 2009 - 07:59 UTC

  Falklands working for organic certification with Australian support

  

  Forty per cent of the 1.1 million hectares of agricultural land in the Falkland Islands is working toward organic certification with Australian certification company ACO, according to Biological Farmers of Australia.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2009 - 05:56 UTC

  UK military honours for Argentine remain burial in Falklands

  

  The remains of Argentine 1st Lt. Jorge Casco killed in 1982 while flying a Skyhawk fighter plane during the South Atlantic Islands conflict were buried at the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery on Saturday 7 March 2009.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2009 - 11:33 UTC

  Oil company closer to begin drilling in North Falklands basin

  

  Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin explorer announced Monday that Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) documents prepared by RPS Energy in relation to planned future drilling activity have been submitted to the Falkland Islands Government. The EIS’s cover licences PL023, PL024, PL032 and PL033.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2009 - 04:49 UTC

  Falklands: Fisheries research vessel chosen

  

  FOLLOWING a successful tender process, Executive Council agreed to recommend to Standing Finance Committee (SFC) that the Falkland Islands registered trawler, Castelo, should be contracted to provide fisheries research facilities to the Government Fisheries Department.

• Friday, March 6th 2009 - 21:46 UTC

  Demining challenges ‘not new’ in Falklands

  

  CHALLENGES that will face de-mining in the Falklands compared to other parts of the world are on the whole, “not new” said a UK official during her visit this week.

• Friday, March 6th 2009 - 16:48 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: East and West Falkland host Sports Weeks; Endurance high and dry; Global ill wind brings some benefit for Standard Chartered Bank; Extreme bikers tour the West in less than a day... off road; Extended visit for James Clark Ross.

• Friday, March 6th 2009 - 05:20 UTC

  Argentine remains to be buried in Falkland Islands

  

  Full military honours will given to the burial of Argentine remains in the Falklands on Saturday.