MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands’ capital expands south anticipating housing demand from oil developers
Anticipating a greater demand for housing from oil developers and support activities the Falkland Islands government is advancing plans to further expand Stanley. Additional funding to take in phase two of the Sapper Hill housing development to the south of Stanley has been approved by the Standing Finance Committee totalling £1.3 million for a further 27 housing plots. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOil oil beautiful oil! :-)
Sep 12th, 2012 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Shouldn`t have sold the carrier to Turkey it would make a brilliant floating hotel.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Lookout! I think we can do better next time.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Floatels and Lookout? Yes, I've lived there too, in the past.
Sep 12th, 2012 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 1
Sep 13th, 2012 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Park Arbour apartments anyone?
Don't go too far now. The argies will make your oil very expensive to extract.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:45 am - Link - Report abuse -1@ ProRG_American - I am British and I work in South America in the oil and gas industry and I know the companies drilling there and they said to me that it's their intention, and always has been their attention, to store the oil on tankers and ship direct to the Chinese to produce so I am afraid all the argie bargie that the argies are producing at the moment is just a waste of their energy. Insted of making life difficult for themselves they should just accept that the UK government will always support freedom and the right to choose and that the argies should just get on with their neighbours. The only loser in this will be Argentina. They should know better than to mess with the brits!
Sep 13th, 2012 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse +14
Sep 13th, 2012 - 05:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wrong Lookout. You're out of date.
I'm starting to think that parking Ark Royal in Stanley Harbour would have been an ideal stop gap measure to solve any oil worker accomodation problems. Imagine the wailing about militarisation.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Don't go too far now. The argies will make your oil very expensive to extract.”
Sep 13th, 2012 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse +1Care to explain How? ... because so far they've not done a thing to affect Falklands business other than give them lots of PR on the world-stage that they would have struggled to get on their own.
Oil not going to Argentine just means Argentine workers miss out on good jobs and their economy on foreign income: I cant see Argentine businesses benefittting from any of the obvious expansion going on, and I cant see them affecting (negatively) anything to do with the oil & gas exploration, extraction or any associated business.
Its really just a lot of hot air and fewer and fewer people are listening (to Argentina's government) anyway: there is only so long that people cna listen to the same tired-old arguments over and over and over and over again.
It's gotten CFK nowhere and cut Argentines off from legitimate business....and that's about all CFK has achieved.
The falklanda will be the rich paradise of the south atlantic,
Sep 13th, 2012 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse +1and CFK will sit in humiliation that they totaly ruined a golden oppertunity to share the golden goose,
instead they would rather live in the past,
being losers will be the least of their problems.
1 Joe Bloggs
Sep 13th, 2012 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FOGL are certainly taking a long time to analyse the Loligo results.
And TWIMC, my interest is purely as an FOGL shareholder and not an overburdened, unappreciated British Taxpayer.
few people there.why build houses?
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh perhaps is for arrival Argie!
@13. gustbury.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They do not need to build houses for Argie but they have reserved plots of land 6 x 2 if you should.........think.......that.... maybe ...you want to try again ?
jejeje
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse -1He said “the falklanda will be the rich paradise of the south pacific”...
Boy, these 3,000 islanders are retards...189 years... and still thinking what to do, what to do...
@ 15
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Yes, you are right. These rubbish bloody english people don't worth a shit!
16... Your post doesn't make sense, reload google translate
Sep 13th, 2012 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +115... Yes that stupid that they earn on average £20000 pounds per year compared to Argenweenas £8000. Poor old Rgs to use a UK phrase they have not got a pot to piss in, probably why they defecated in the houses in the Falklands before they surrendered. Jajajajajaj
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Sep 13th, 2012 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 18
Sep 13th, 2012 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 09/13/2012 Conqueror Captain Poppy Death Notice
We all attend your funeral!
Only one place for argies. Head down in a cesspit. Before we remove useless organs.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 12:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@15 How are you, sussie? Still got your legs up round your neck?
@16 Yellow-bellied
You are finished,conquered!uk is a terrorist state!
Expanding the shantytown to the south guys?
Sep 14th, 2012 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse -121
Sep 14th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Pots and kettles come to mind
@20
Sep 14th, 2012 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am here in Las Vegas having fun, good food and easy money from slots machines. Keep wasting your time in Mercopress Port-A-John, good, you need it all the time! lol
Elvis never went to las vagas.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0loopyloo
Viva Sussie! She is the winner!
Sep 14th, 2012 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No one of the islanders have monies to travel to Las Vegas! hehehe
keh keh lol.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26
Sep 14th, 2012 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh! Mr. drip drip drip
Why don't you try to make up with your wife and don't bother SussieUS ...no more!
why are you impersonating a dead person, are you sick.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I am not.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1The USA Department of Justice sent me a letter about the UK team traspassing my personal information in web site.
But, the UK team cannot delete my comments in The Economist!
Viva la Sussie!
@29
Sep 14th, 2012 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please, don't pay attention on 28, we all know he is Jack the Ripper!
I wonder who is going to be filling all these houses? Argies maybe? And why not? Could an influx of Argentines come to work in the oil industry and turn self determination on its head, and if they tried what could we do? Surely we couldn't put up “no Argies and no dogs” signs...
Sep 15th, 2012 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse -131 Willy Warmer
Sep 15th, 2012 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse +1Putting future immigration policy aside, do I take it you now believe in the principle of self determination for the Falkland Islanders?
If so this is a major advance on the part of Argentina and/or its supporters and war might yet be avoided.
@31 They can be bought by JB and rented out to foreign workers.
Sep 15th, 2012 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Daily Telegraph reported that immigration had slowed due to one of the world’s most restrictive policies. Newcomers are not allowed to apply for islander status, giving them voting rights among other things {including the purchase of property}, until they have completed seven years of residency. That can be done only by repeatedly renewing temporary labour contracts. Even then, only 40 people can apply each year, and not all are accepted.
“No one who is impatient, no one who is not already British or is not prepared to become a British Citizen and no dogs”
Oh!
Sep 15th, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1200 years and still the Islander capitol looking like an Arg Shantytown in La Matanza, but without new hospitals, schools, shopping, etc.
Where is the donation button in the article?
So self determination it is then. Took a bit of time but Argentina and/or its supporters finally arrived.
Sep 15th, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Now whats the matter with the immigration rules, seems fine to me.
If the Islanders don't want dogs shitting all over the place, that's surely their right.
Granted it's not easy but you can bring dogs in. There are more and more each year. Plus the choice of island-bred ones is getting better all the time. If Dover knows so much about the islands he'll know why so many Falkland Islanders aren't keen on dogs.
Sep 15th, 2012 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are plenty of places that are far tougher to immigrate to than the Falklands.
@19 You first. WE insist!
Sep 15th, 2012 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@20 Then you'd better worry whyen we come for you. A nice dose of murder, pillage and rape! But then you'll be used to that, won't you? Time to reap what you have sown?
@23 Ten tricks a day for the motel? You can still do Motel 6 for $60.
@25 The “straight” word from cock eater!
@27 You know you like the drips!
@29 Hackers get everywhere, don't they? Apparently you are classified under “wh**es, cheap”!
@31 Don't be silly. Argie accommodation is underground!
@34 It's called being self-sufficient. Grow or raise what you eat and what you wear. Build what you can remove or repair. Meanwhile, a useful modernisation relates to the ease and speed with which minefield markers can be removed.
@ Conqueror/ Captain Poppy/Zhivago/Craig R/Simon 68
Sep 15th, 2012 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Same crap from the rubbish bloody english men...lol
the dead talk rubbish, and the zombies follow suit,
Sep 15th, 2012 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0please grow uppy
I have no problem with Argies living, working, in the Falklands as long as it remains under British control. The reason why it should remain under British control is because the people who live there are British and want to remain British. It is not the British that does not allow the argies in but it is their own government - their own government that causes people to protest outside the casa rosada banging pots and demanding democracy and pleading with Cristina that she not change the constitution so that she can force her personality and politics on Argentina for another term. We should not be attacking Argentina but helping them. Perhaps if they are allowed to come to the Falklands they will see how democracy and a well governed country could be like and it may well be eye opening for them. I wait for the day when Argentina will have a proper government and when there will be normal realations between the kelpers and the main land again. I am positive that this will happen and it can be the only solution!
Sep 15th, 2012 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1@38 sussie bum-boy
Sep 16th, 2012 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“The initial excavation and sub base construction to the road and footpaths is now 95% complete, ”
Look sussie!
A new Sub Base - great place for the latest British submarine, HMS Ambush to come and go from, and sink your toy boats.
LOL LOL
@31 Only on here could you make an allusion to a well known phrase or saying relating to bigoted and prejudiced behaviour and have it taken literally. Be grateful you were spared the lecture on hydatidosis disease. I know that I am.
Sep 16th, 2012 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@40 It is a widely held and publicly expressed view that the Falkland Islanders cannot allow any relaxation of the stance they have always shown towards Argentina. You shouldn't hold your breath waiting for any encouragement for your solution from that quarter.
Even the argie trolls are getting short of blowing their own trumpet,
Sep 16th, 2012 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Lets face it,
The people are wising up to the con tricks,
Sick n tired of the promises and talking,
And now they realise that it was all a fake, to distract them all,
While they concentrated on the Falklands, CFK was lining her own nest, ready for the departcher.
Still,
BK will not be invited to tag alone .lol.
@43
Sep 16th, 2012 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“BK will not be invited to tag alone .lol.”
CFK does not even know or care who BK and sussie are.
Both will be left to face the angry mob. :-D
just goes to show how indocrinated and brain washed they really are .
Sep 16th, 2012 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse +1#33 Thats the dirty secret of “self-determination”
Sep 16th, 2012 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -1#44 I'm in the angry mob, in Britain =)
what angree mob,
Sep 16th, 2012 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +1who what why when where.lol.
#47 Well, the likes of Cameron see the common people as a mob, and I'm definately angry at his government and class
Sep 16th, 2012 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so are we all,
Sep 16th, 2012 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but thats the way cookie crumbles,
is this not true,
2015, and ya get another go,
relax.lol
@48 BK
Sep 17th, 2012 - 12:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cameron can be voted out, at least, in Britain.
However, you would rather publically betray your country and undermine Britian and British interests, just to spite your current Prime Minister.
You have the tools for social change in Britain, yet you would rather whine and shit-disturb.
Argentinians are about to have those very rights taken away from them - and YOU support that government!
I don't understand. Are you that miserable? Is the chip on your shoulder that big that betraying, and provoking, others is your raison d'être??
I think you must be obsessed, and I'm sure you live alone.
@Troy Tempest
Sep 17th, 2012 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse -1“However, you would rather publically betray your country and undermine Britian and British interests, just to spite your current Prime Minister.”
This sounds a pretty dictatorial statement...
@51
Sep 17th, 2012 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1The point is , in Britain, a democracy, he can have his PrimeMinister removed and still support his country.
In Argentina, the Kirchnerists are betraying their country and it's people, to keep CFK, a DICTATOR.
@ 41 = 43
Sep 17th, 2012 - 04:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You must be kidding again!
12 USA embassies under attack= Obama & Clinton = FRITOS
4 USA embassies employees dead = incompetent security
.....yahoooooooooo ......the action has started... next the UK embassies including the one in Bs.As. jejeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeejeeeeeeeeeeee I can see the rubbish bloody english men running like rats !....
Oh! ...by the way....talking about the “royals”... the scandals continues with the latest picture of UK Prince William's wife bare chest....guess what ...the pictures shows she is flat ...no tits...what is she complaining about?
Only Sofia Loren is one of the few women that can show the best 44 inches perfect bust!
Poor rubbish bloody english men... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!
Amazin how these argies will clinch to anything and everything, to distract the fact ,
Sep 17th, 2012 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the losers are going down the plug hole.
................
and their insults to the british have got them where,
knowhere, thats where.lol.
53...people running like rats!!! Are you talking about the RG soldiers during the Falkands war...run away Jajajajajajaja. RGs all talk no action...
Sep 17th, 2012 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Sep 17th, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0name one country.
Sep 18th, 2012 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@56
Sep 19th, 2012 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentines have the opportunity to apologise for laying unmarked minefields on the Falklands, and for shitting in Falkland Islanders houses as they were unaware how to use toilets and, for 1982 in general (ie 1000 dead).
Argentina's fault.
@58 - you're totally right, the ´82 war was Argentina's fault and they did shit in houses cos they don't know how to use toilets - but if they went back to the Falklands now, just for a visit, maybe we can show them how to be civilised? The argies also have to apologise for stealing land from the mapuches, the paraguayans, and from Chile. ANd yet they call the Brits pirates and colonialists , erm pot, kettle, black me thinks!
Sep 19th, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 57
Sep 19th, 2012 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0North, Central and all Southamerican countries.
Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal andGermany
Oman, Kuwait an Iran.
Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines andVietnam.
I resided in these countries: and all have the same thought about your UK:bloody rubbish english people.
@ 59
Come on. Move on. Lo pasado, pisado.
There are millons of argentine citizens like myself not interested in such islands. Keep the islands you know where.
@60 sussie-boy toy
Sep 20th, 2012 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Did sussie-boy get kicked out of each of them too???
Can't imagine he lasted very long in any of them - many less liberal countries have laws against transvestites and have no tolerance for the mentally ill.
@ 61 Troy Tempest
Sep 20th, 2012 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0same like Conor Louden-Brown a generic gay
every time Troy Tempest open his mouth ... 150 male penis point
at his english pink arse...
Keep touching your toes generic gay!
@Sussie 2012
Sep 20th, 2012 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You seem to be the only one interested in my arse.
Sorry, I'm not your type.
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