MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2004
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Friday, October 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize.
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.
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Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“Historic” agreement for reforming Chilean constitution.
Fourteen years after recovering democracy Chile managed a political agreement that will open the way to reforming some of the harshest and most controversial aspects of the 1980 Constitution inherited from the military regime of General Pinochet.
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Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Military pockets and secrets to be exposed.
A group of Chilean Deputies from different political parties have requested President Ricardo Lagos to sponsor a bill repealing the highly secretive Reserved Copper Bill which deals with military financing and procurement.
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Thursday, October 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Ancram promises to end “Straw's betrayal of Gibraltar”
At the British Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth this Wednesday Jonathan Evans the leader of the Conservative members of the European Parliament thanked Bernard Hazell from the Gibraltar branch for the outstanding election result there in June, where the party achieved a massive 70% of votes cast.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Soybeans flatten, and cattle is back in Argentina.
The considerable profit margin of planting soybeans over growing livestock in Argentina has begun to dramatically revert, according to a report from the Meats Trade and Industry Chamber of Argentina, Ciccra.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine: Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Argentine ban on Patagonian toothfish catch; Sub-Patagonian squid stock data to be released in 30 days; USD 565 million of fish and shellfish in exports registered up to August. -
Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Flights Ball In Argentine Court, Says Falklands Governor.
If Argentina wants to discuss the subject of flights between the South American continent and the Falklands, then they should first respond to the British proposals on the table said Falkland Islands Governor, Howard Pearce, speaking in Stanley, on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“New Polar”: New Technology
Efficiency and cost saving, achieved by the use of state-of-the art technology distinguish the New Polar, latest addition to the Falkland Islands fishing fleet. Vessel owners, Polar Limited hosted a reception on board the recently Falkland flagged vessel on Friday evening.
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Wednesday, October 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Pension increase for Malvinas veterans.
The Argentine government decided this week to increase Malvinas war veterans' pension from the equivalent of 133 to 309 US dollars.
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Tuesday, October 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Leeds Castle rededicates Ardent Antelope cross.
HMS Leeds Castle, in one of her last acts before departing the Falkland Islands, rededicated the Ardent-Antelope Cross on a typically blustery September day.
