MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

FIBS Direct News.

Appalling Services from Cable and Wireless

Councillor Luxton criticised the services Cable and Wireless provide to people in Camp yesterday. This was in his motion of thanks speech at Legislative Council yesterday. Brian Summers, Business Unit Manager from Cable and Wireless said that they haven't yet heard Mr Luxton's comments so were not in a position to express a view but they will comment once they have listened to the recording. Also in Councillor Luxton's response, he stated that there were still financial penalties for people living in Camp and urged treasury to look at a ?radical suggestion' he had. This was to introduce a negative income tax that would allow additional allowances depending on the area a resident lived in. So for instance, a larger rebate would be given to someone living on a remote island compared to someone living on the East in Camp. Councillor added that designating unlicensed roads on the West was a deeply unpopular suggestion and hinted that this would probably be his final budget Legco And you can hear more from what the councillors had to say in their responses in tomorrow's News Direct.

Three reindeer have died at Saladero

Despite the Governor's address yesterday claiming that the reindeer were settling in well at Saladero and having no problems in adapting to the Falklands Climate, Veterinary Officer, Steve Pointing confirmed on Monday that three reindeer had died so far. He told people at the Public Meeting in the town hall that, they seem to have died from a disease, which they did not have a natural immunity to having come from South Georgia. Mr Pointing added that vaccinating the animals was solving the problem.

Sewage System to be improved

In the Governor's address to Legislative Council yesterday, His Excellency said that there had been some improvement in effecting waste disposal and that the monitoring of bacterial levels in Stanley Harbour caused by raw sewage discharge has been undertaken. Although, he said, the results suggest there was not a problem, there were plans to collect discharge from some harbour outfalls and route this to an open sea outfall. Funding has been agreed for the first stage and is likely to be followed