Tag: Falkland Islands

• Saturday, January 14th 2012 - 15:08 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Cancellation of the visit of Cruise Vessel Start Princess

  

  Due to a reported outbreak of norovirus on the cruise vessel Star Princess, following agreed protocols, the Chief Medical Officer took the difficult decision not to allow the vessel to land in the Falkland Islands as scheduled. The vessel had been due to arrive in Stanley at 8am on the 14th January.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 22:47 UTC

  Falkland Islands Holdings agrees to subscribe 2 million new shares from FOGL

  

  Falkland Islands Holdings has agreed to subscribe for 2 million new shares placed by Falkland Oil and Gas Limited. FIH says the £860,000 cost of the shares will be met from the group's existing cash resources.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 19:21 UTC

  Oil company ensures funds for a Falkland Islands’ two-well drilling round

  

  UK-based Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL) announced on Friday it has raised £48.5m (74.3m dollars) through a placing of new ordinary shares to fund drilling of exploration wells in Falkland Islands while it continues active discussions with potential partners for a farm-out.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 14:48 UTC

  Falklands plans to export 30.000 lambs this season from upgraded abattoir

  

  The Falkland Islands Meat Company (FIMCo) may export up to 30,000 lambs in the coming season compared to 26,000 last year in an abattoir successfully upgraded by local companies, reports the Penguin News in this week’s edition.

• Tuesday, January 10th 2012 - 15:42 UTC

  UK tells Mercosur it will resist any attempts to coerce the Falklands

  

  The British government said it would resist any attempts to coerce the Falkland Islands through economic or other pressures, and revealed it is holding ‘productive discussions’ with Uruguay, Chile and Brazil to ensure trade and commercial links between the Islands and South America are not compromised by political declarations.

• Monday, January 9th 2012 - 06:57 UTC

  PM Cameron discards any Falklands’ sovereignty negotiations with Argentina

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron discarded any Falkland Islands sovereignty negotiations with Argentina and said that his government is permanently vigilant about the protection of the Islands and their defence.

• Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 01:18 UTC

  Spanish vessel with Falklands’ flag barred from the port of Punta del Este

  

  A Spanish fishing vessel flying the Falkland Islands flag was barred from entering the alternative port of Punta del Este where she was planning to receive crewmembers. The news was confirmed by Uruguay’s Coast Guard.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 15:50 UTC

  Falklands’ “land release” demining phase begins next week with 18 Zimbabweans

  

  The team from BACTEC International Ltd that will be carrying out the second phase of the demining pilot project is in the Falklands are in the Islands and will look to release significant areas of land behind the Stanley Common fence to the South-west of the capital.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 14:42 UTC

  The Falklands, like a duck in basket

  

  Penguin News Deputy Editor John Fowler explains it from the point of view of the people that actually matter - the Islanders.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  HMS Protector ‘complies with all requirements’ to operate from Montevideo

  

  Uruguay authorized the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector into Montevideo because it complies with normal procedure in spite of the fact that its next port of call is Stanley in Falklands/Malvinas.