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Stories for February 2005

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Next of Kin Visit: “No Flags Please, We're British”

  THE families of Argentine war dead will be under strict instructions to fly no national flags during the dedication of the Darwin War Memorial in March.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Project to confirm Magallanes Lamb quality.

  Chile's Agriculture Sciences Institute, INIA, and Punta Arenas main abattoir, Frigorifico Simunovic are involved in a seven months project to assess the nutritional quality and content of Magallanes Region lamb.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Sweeping reforms in Argentine airports security.

  The Argentine government is planning a new security agency to man the country's airports following the recent drug traffic scandal at Buenos Aires main international terminal, Ezeiza.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner optimistic with defaulted bonds exchange

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner “kindly” called on all creditors of the country's defaulted sovereign debt to remember that this week is the last chance to accept the exchange for new bonds.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Avian Cholera to blame for South Georgia penguin deaths.

  THE deaths of hundreds of Chinstrap penguins at Cooper Bay, South Georgia late last year have been blamed on Avian Cholera (Pasturella multocida), a bacterium that has previously been identified in the Antarctic and other sub-Antarctic islands.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina arrests second squid poacher in a week.

  Headlines:
  Argentine Coast Guard arrests second Taiwanese poacher; Invasive oyster threatens Gulf of San Matias; Santa Cruz shrimp fishery opens March 1.

• Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Gloucester heading for Brazil.

  South Atlantic patrol HMS Gloucester left the Falkland Islands last Friday and is heading north towards Brazil.

• Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Further purge in Venezuelan government oil industry

  Rafael Ramirez Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister, and president of Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, announced the government owned company was sacking dozens of managers and supervisors allegedly involved in corruption practices.

• Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Uruguayan Navy arrests Brazilian poacher;
  Salmon safeguards: EU accepts consultation process with Chile; European Fisheries Agency takes off in 2006; 199 Spanish vessels allowed to fish in Northeast Atlantic; New denomination for Chilean scallop exports to Italy.

• Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian business and unions blast monetary policy.

  Brazilian business organizations and trade unions bitterly criticized the Central Bank's monetary policy which last week raised the basic interest rate, Selic, for the sixth consecutive time, to 18,75%, considered the highest in the world.