Tag: Falkland Islands

• Sunday, January 11th 2015 - 22:26 UTC

  Falkland Islands unveils bronze to 'hero forever' Baroness Thatcher

  

  Describing Baroness Margaret Thatcher as a “hero forever” the Falkland Islands unveiled on Saturday a bust of the former British Prime Minister whose determination was decisive in recovering the Islands from invading and occupying Argentine forces in 1982, helping to propel the Islands to what they are now. Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the late PM was especially invited to the ceremony.

• Sunday, January 11th 2015 - 19:40 UTC

  Falklands demining season scheduled to begin next Monday

  

  The Falkland Islands is set to begin another demining and ground clearance activity next week at Minefield number 59 at Wall Mountain on East Falkland.

• Saturday, January 10th 2015 - 07:27 UTC

  Falklands unveil bronze bust dedicated to Baroness Margaret Thatcher

  

  Falkland Islands residents will gather this Saturday afternoon next to the 1982 Liberation Monument for the unveiling and dedication of the Falkland Islands Government commissioned bronze bust of Baroness Margaret Thatcher.

• Friday, January 9th 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Falklands football team with be at the Island Games in Jersey

  

  There will be 16 men's teams and 11 women's teams in this summer's Island Games football tournament, including from the Falkland Islands. Only four men's teams and three women's teams went to the last Games in Bermuda because of costs, with the hosts winning both gold medals.

• Thursday, January 8th 2015 - 05:50 UTC

  Alleged Falklands' links sufficient motive to suspend fishing license of Tierra del Fuego company

  

  Argentina's Tierra del Fuego provincial government decided on Wednesday to preventatively suspend Pesantar's fishing license following claims that the company is associated with another group operating in the South Atlantic but with a Falklands' government license.

• Thursday, January 8th 2015 - 01:13 UTC

  Falklands contribution to the development of sheep farming in Magallanes

  

  The close historic and farming links between the Falkland Islands and the Magallanes Region, were underlined in a recent article by Punta Arenas researcher Silvestre Fugellie dedicated to sheep farming, the 'golden fleece' that changed the economy of those barren lands in the extreme south of Chile over a century ago.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Rockhopper awarded exploration licence with ENI, in Croatian Adriatic

  

  The British company Rockhopper Exploration, with interests in the Falkland Islands, has been awarded a licence to explore, together with Italy's Eni, a field for possible oil and gas exploitation in the central part of the Croatian Adriatic.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands' waters chosen to experiment Taiwanese high-tech jigger

  

  An energy-efficient squid fishing-vessel sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) is heading to the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, north of the Falkland Islands, on its maiden voyage, to begin a six-month testing phase and examine the efficacy of its arrays of light emitting diodes (LED) for catching squid.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Falklands' dispute: claims Japanese company fished in Argentine and Islands waters

  

  The Argentine ministries of Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture and Fisheries are considering the consequences of a complaint filed in recent days by a top official from a local company (Empresa Pesquera de la Patagonia y Antártica S.A., Pesantar) warning that the vessel “Union Sur” had fished in Falkland Islands last November.

• Monday, January 5th 2015 - 09:06 UTC

  Falkland Islands Tourist Board focuses on Tourism to the next Generation of Travellers.

  

  Tony Mason, Managing Director of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board today discussed plans on marketing to a new generation of travellers.