MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 2005
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Saturday, February 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine optimism with defaulted bonds exchange.
Argentina's defaulted debt restructuring swap concluded this Friday at 18:15 with prospects of a high level of acceptance which is estimated between 70 and 80%.
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Saturday, February 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Prince Edward visits Uruguay and Chile.
Prince Edward will be visiting Uruguay and Chile beginning next week. In Uruguay he will participate in the taking office ceremony of elected President Tabare Vazquez Tuesday March 1.
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Friday, February 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Govt. opens market, C&WB's monopoly ends.
The government of Barbados officially opened up its telecoms market this week, ending the monopoly of Cable & Wireless Barbados (C&WB) and handing new licenses to three competitors, according to local newspaper Nation News.
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Friday, February 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
?On your marks...'; Falkland Gold and Minerals to drill on Monday; Illex unimpressive but looking better than last year; Brock: Government ?competes with media'; Atlanta replaces Luxor; SAMA Wales men arrive. -
Friday, February 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Standard Chartered to expand LatAm franchise with new office.
UK banking group Standard Chartered plans to open a representative office in Chile to tap growing trade with Asia, the bank's head of Latin America, Rodolfo Alborelli told BNamericas.
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Friday, February 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
New £30M 'Falklands' Warship
VT Group plc has been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Defence for the construction of a new 80 metre Offshore Patrol Vessel (Helicopter) for the Royal Navy.
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Friday, February 25th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Hunting for hidden riches: gold and oil exploration gather pace in the Falklands
HOPES of a new gold rush in the Falklands will come a step closer next week with the start of an exploratory drilling programme near Goose Green.
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
“Oil money won't bail us out” say Councillors.
FALKLANDS Councillors made it clear this week that if offshore oil reserves are discovered, the financial bonanza won't come soon enough to dig their budgets out of the immediate hole left by a reduced illex fishery.
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Stanley draws up plans for stranded cruise passengers.
A CONTINGECY plan is being written up for Stanley so that the town will be better prepared if it ever again finds itself overnight host to hundreds of stranded cruise ship passengers.
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Torres del Paine blaze: “ecological disaster”
Torres del Paine Park in Chilean Patagonia was definitively closed to tourists Wednesday following almost a week of raging blazes that have destroyed so far anywhere between 9,000 and 11,000 hectares of pristine grassland, shrubs and woods.
