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Stories for July 13th 2004

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Tireless: Spain satisfied with FCO reply.

  Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos expressed satisfaction this Monday with a pledge from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that the nuclear submarine HMS Tireless will leave Gibraltar “in a couple of days”.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Start the Falklands Farmer's Week

  Monday 12th July marked the beginning of Farmers' Week in the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile, darling of foreign investors in the region.

  Chile figures ninth in the world ranking of countries best qualified for foreign invertors according to the US based consultants A. T. Kearney

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula is Mercosur's “main leader”.

  Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “is Mercosur's main leader”, said Argentine former president Eduardo Duhalde who currently is president of Mercosur's Council of Permanent Representatives.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Strong Chilean investment overseas.

  Chilean investments overseas in the first half of 2004 reached the 1998 half year mark considered one of the country's record totaling 997 million US dollars, 238% increase over 2003.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Plastic surgery and tango lessons in Buenos Aires.

  A United States company is offering tourist packages in Argentina that combine plastic surgery with leisure activities such as a seven-day excursion that includes silicone breast implants and tango, reported the Buenos Aires press last Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  July holidays boom in Argentina.

  An estimated 7,5 million Argentines are taking advantage of the mid term school holidays to travel to different parts of the country with their families.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Kelp processing plant in Porvernir; EU has 419 reported cases of mad cow; Aid for stranded Chilean crewmembers.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar opposition tells Spain: MYOB

  The Gibraltar GSLP/Liberal Opposition consider that a visit by any Royal Navy vessel to Gibraltar has nothing to do with any foreign country and that the Spanish Government should mind its own business on the issue.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  One-to-One with Connie Stevens, new Director of Tourism for Falklands.

  Connie Stevens, formerly, Marketing Manager for the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) began her interview with FIBS News Editor, Sue Gyford, on Tuesday by admitting that after just one week in her new job she was “still finding her way.”