Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Castle remembers Glamorgan

  HMS Dumbarton Castle spent the weekend completing her final preparations for passage before sailing to complete important upper-deck maintenance.

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' aquaculture development project

  Falkland Islands Aquaculture Development Manager, Brendan Gara has 18 months left of his contract and
  thinks it would be a good idea to introduce someone who will benefit from 12 months training rather
  than to keep bringing consultants in.

• Monday, August 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  New Island North under new ownership

  THE whole of New Island, the most remote of all the Falklands' inhabited islands, is now under the ownership of one trust.

• Saturday, August 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' gold: Newsweek's “two plus two makes ten”

  “It looks like another case of someone putting two and two together and making ten”.

• Friday, August 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' wool cooperative initiative controversy

  Speaking on the Falkland Islands Radio Station's mid-day news programme on Thursday, Councillor Dr.Andrea Clausen, the Chair of the Islands' Development Board, said that there had been no pressure put on farmers to join in an initiative aimed at cutting out the middle men between Falkland Islands wool producers and the world-wide buyers of their product.

• Friday, August 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Island Shipping goes bust;
  Education Director: ?nothing but praise' for A Level results;
  News in brief:
  
  Telephone refund; Popular tourism job;
  Conferencing councillors.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farm equipment sold to Falklands' farmer

  In an “unprecedented” operation an Argentine company has sold sophisticated farming equipment for delivery in the Falkland Islands, reports Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación in its Tuesday edition.

• Monday, August 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Councillors reject heavy smoking label

  Some members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council, who are currently pondering whether or not smoking should be banned from public places in the Islands, today reacted negatively to the suggestion in a Mercopress report on this subject (Thursday 10th August) that the Falklands is “a community of heavy smokers”, something that Councillor Mike Summers referred to as “a slur on our good behaviour”.

• Monday, August 14th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' war Sea Harrier auctioned

  A fighter jet which fought in the 1982 Falkland Islands war was sold for £ 65.512 on the internet auction site eBay reports the Daily Mirror.
  Apparently the engineless Sea Harrier was bought by a bidder in Scotland. The former vertical take off Royal Navy aeroplane has wingspan of 25ft and is 46ft long.

• Friday, August 11th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: Rewarding a year's hard work;
  Travel security increased on south-bound flights only; Governor leaves;
  Advice for Camp patients; Man injured in incident;
  Coastal contract: clock ticking to end of Island Shipping service.