Stories for 2001 , page 42

Thursday, April 26th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

?A Town Council is not a Constitutional matter'

A discussion as to whether the Falklands should reinstate its long defunct Town Council and a Lord Mayor, continues to reverberate around the Islands.

Wednesday, April 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Chile Expert and Diplomat Dies: John Hickman

A former British diplomat and expert on Latin America and member of the South Atlantic Council, which promotes discussions with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, has died .

Wednesday, April 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Falklands Schoolboy Initiates Valuable Publicity.

Thanks to the initiative of a Stanley schoolboy, the Falklands Islands have enjoyed positive publicity in one of the United Kingdom's best-selling celebrity magazines. Ten-year- old John Didlick wrote to a television personality who featured in last year's documentary “Castaway 200”, Ben Fogle.

Wednesday, April 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Constitutional Debate at Public Meeting

Tuesday, April 24th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Hot News.

Tuesday, April 24th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

The Battle of Quebec.

Having lost the mediatic coverage to the thousands of protestors, violent and non violent, who overrun Quebec, the leaders of the 34 countries of the Americas, virtually besieged in the historic Citadel of French Canada, ratified their commitment to a free trade area, FTAA, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, effective December 2005, and conditioned its members to a “democratic clause”.

Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

FIBS Breaking News.

Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

US contrary to FAM immunization

Despite the risk posed by highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, FAM, US sanitary authorities and the meat industry have so far refused to consider immunizing livestock in the United States.

Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Reasonable prospects for Latinamerica.

World economic growth will abruptly slowdown this year falling to 2,2% from last year's 4%, according to the latest World Bank report. However this hard landing should be softer for Latinamerica GDP which is expected to grow 3,7% in 2001, almost equivalent to last year's 3,8%, and push to 4,4% in 2002.

Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Shell plans to invest heavily in Tierra del Fuego

Royal Dutch Shell has selected Tierra del Fuego as its main option to set up a plant to extract liquid fuels from natural gas. The project involves investing 1,5 billion US dollars and will concentrate in elaborating virgin petrol, jet fuel and diesel-oil.