MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands looking ahead to celebrating the past.
In their first meeting of 2005, held on Thursday 27 January, the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands (ExCo) agreed that a budget of £150,000 should be set aside to fund celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Islands' liberation from Argentina in 1982.
Interviewed on the ExCo meeting by Corina Bishop of the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Service, Governor Howard Pearce said that while it did not seem so long ago that the 20th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands was celebrated, minds in both the UK and the Islands were already being turned to preparations for the 25th anniversary in 2007. With this in view a small committee had been established under the chairmanship of ex-councillor, Lewis Clifton, to set preparations for 2007 in hand. Representatives of Government House, Gilbert House and British Forces South Atlantic Islands were included in the committee membership.
Asked to give some detail of what might be happening, Governor Pearce said, "I guess the scale is likely to be similar; I would expect there to be some very senior visitors from the UK, though of course it's too early at the moment to say exactly who that will be and I am sure there will be a lot of veterans who will wish to come down for these events too, but it's a little bit difficult to go in to detail at the moment."
What was important, he said, was that what was to be done in 2007 shouldn't be a carbon copy of what was done only five years previously, but that it should contain some innovative events and some new ideas.
John Fowler (MP) Stanley
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