MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 2004
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Friday, September 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica employment recovering.
Urban unemployment in Latinamerica dropped to an average 10,9% during the first half of 2004 with the most significant reductions in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela, according to the latest release from the International Labour Office.
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Friday, September 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Defence Force marches to victory; Falklands/Argentine scientists working together; No presidential visit; Island murder investigation; Bid farewell to Leeds Castle; Arrest made for child assault. -
Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Documenting the May 1982 Vulcan air raid.
Rowland White was just eleven years old when the Falklands War was fought, however the events of 1982 clearly made an impression upon him as, twenty-two years later, he is now writing a book about the Royal Air Force's first bombing raid on Stanley Airport.
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Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Pardelhas to be struck off Falklands Registrar.
Pardelhas Fishing Company which is registered in the Falkland Islands and is involved in several legal disputes in Punta Arenas will be struck off the list of registered companies in the Islands, reported this Wednesday the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station, FIBS.
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Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Fed optimistic about US recovery
United States economy is emerging from a recent summer lull and seems to be recovering full force, said Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan during a hearing this Wednesday before the House of Representatives Budget Committee.
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Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Record oil income year for Venezuela.
Venezuela's oil industry sales could be in excess of 30 billion US dollars, according to the National Economic Council (CEN) and the Central Bank. CEN chairman Efrain Velasquez said the figures were based on results from Venezuela's balance of payments at the end of the first half of this year, when “petroleum exports generated $15 billion”.
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Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay expects promising season.
The number of tourists visiting Uruguay during the first eight months of 2004 was 36% above the same period in 2003 and if the tendency continues could total over two million, according to the Uruguayan Ministry of Tourism.
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Thursday, September 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Bielsa calls for more “Antarctic cooperation”.
Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa last Tuesday called for a “more effective international cooperation” in Antarctica during the official inauguration of the Antarctic Treaty permanent Secretariat in Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, September 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands preparing for the coming tourist season.
The capital of the Falkland Islands Public Jetty is undergoing a face lift ready for the construction of the ?secure zone' for the forthcoming tourist season, exactly half a century after the jetty was initially concreted.
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Wednesday, September 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Pardelhas case re emerges in Punta Arenas.
A Punta Arenas magistrate opened the way for the seizure and auctioning of two fishing vessels belonging to Pardelhas Fishing Company after ruling that the company owes maritime agent Ultramar the equivalent of 165,000 US dollars, reports La Prensa Austral.
