Eighteen names were finally listed in the Gazette for the Falkland Islands General Election next November 22nd. Eleven candidates will be running for five seats in Stanley and seven for three seats in Camp.
Dire future for Gibraltar if the European Union effectively ends the British Overseas Territory's tax haven status sheltering billions of pounds from European tax authorities, as anticipated in The Times Friday's edition.
Lack of credibility persists in the essence of the latest financial announcements of the Argentine government in its desperate attempt to avoid defaulting on the 130 billion US dollars foreign debt and getting the country out of its four years recession.
What is believed to be the world's biggest ever arms deal -- the contract for the new supersonic joint strike aircraft for the United States and to replace Britain's Harrier jump jet -- has been awarded to Lockheed Martin in preference to Boeing, after tests of demonstrator aircraft from both companies.
As the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Vessel, HMS ENDURANCE embarks upon her annual deployment she bids farewell to Portsmouth for the next six and a half months and looks forward to the Austral summer in Antarctica. She returns to her base port of Portsmouth, to which she is also affiliated, on 7 May 2002.
An educational charity called the South Georgia Association is to be set up to encourage interest in and promote study of South Georgia and conservation of its natural and cultural heritage. It will encourage contacts and fellowship among those who have lived and worked in or around South Georgia, have visited or are interested in the Island. The Association will be formally inaugurated at a meeting in London on December 14th.