Stories for April 2011

Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 21:55 UTC
Falklands’ war book reveals Israel’s arms and equipment support for Argentina

Israel’s role during the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict as a willing supplier of arms, equipment and other materials to Argentina has been revealed in a book titled “Operation Israel: the rearming of Argentina during the dictatorship (1976/1983)” written by Hernan Dobry, with an advance published over the weekend in Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 17:30 UTC
Uruguay admits to IMF concern over inflation, but rejects capital flow controls

Uruguay’s concern with inflation risks and instruments to ‘mitigate’ its impact was underlined by the region’s representative at the IMF Monetary and Financial Committee meeting in Washington where the IMF and World Bank are holding their spring meetings.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 16:11 UTC
Falkland Islands’ 2012 oil exploration drilling round announced by FOGL

Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd plans to raise £32m through a placing of shares at 70p each, with the money earmarked for the oil and gas exploration company’s 2012 drilling program, according to a release from the company heavily involved in exploration to the South and East of the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 14:04 UTC
IMF pounds at emerging and developed countries, but forgets self-criticism

The IMF criticized developing countries for not responding strongly enough to the surge of hot money into their markets, saying the result could be a hard economic landing.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 14:00 UTC
Geithner warns US budget trimming battle in Congress has a deadline

United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was confident Congress would raise the country’s debt limit and that it may need to do so before a deal is reached to rein in future budget deficits.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 13:53 UTC
Argentina joins manufacturing of Brazil’s KC 390 jet powered military transport

Brazil and Argentina aircraft industries have signed a partnership contract for the manufacturing of the Embraer KC 390, a medium sized twin engine jet powered military transport aircraft with a 23 tons capacity.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:57 UTC
Private property returns after 50 years: Cubans allowed to buy and sell their homes

Cuba says it will allow people to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the communist revolution in 1959. For the past 50 years, Cubans have only been allowed to pass on their homes to their children, or to swap them through a complicated and often corrupt system.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:41 UTC
Falklands’ explosives disposal team has dealt with 2.8 million ordnance items in 29 years

After almost twenty nine years of service to the Falkland Islands the Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal team based at Hillside Camp in the capital Stanley will be transferring its service to JSEOD teams based at the Mount Pleasant Complex.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:34 UTC
Falklands’ Health Services praised by UK Ministry of Defence audit

An audit into the Falkland Islands Health Service praised the quality care to patients and the impressively wide provision of health care services for such a remote and isolated community.
Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:18 UTC
Canadian company ready to begin exploiting lithium in north Argentina

Canadian miner Lithium Americas Corp said it plans to start building a lithium carbonate facility next year at its Cauchuri project in the Argentine province of Jujuy. The plant with a total capacity of 40,000 tons per annum is expected to start adding to the company's revenue in 2014, Lithium Americas said in a statement.