MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 3rd 2017
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:42 UTC
Falklands implements closer educational links with Chilean university
A Chilean professor from the Chilean British University in Santiago will be arriving in the Falkland Islands on Saturday to begin the implementation process of the MOU signed between the Islands government and the university to have Chilean students complete their degree levels in Falklands.
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:33 UTC
Brazil's major corruption scandal has a new Justice who promises prudence and transparency
Brazil's Supreme Court named a new justice on Thursday to oversee cases against politicians caught in a giant corruption probe after the previous judicial point man was killed in an airplane crash.
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:23 UTC
Bank of England forecasts strong economic growth in next three years
The Bank of England revised up its economic growth forecasts for the British economy for the coming three years, crediting much of the improvement to the government’s decision to ease up on austerity in the wake of the country’s vote to leave the European Union.
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:10 UTC
Chile creates new 11.000 km2 marine eco-region in Juan Fernandez Island
The alfonsin, the orange roughy and the cod, as well as a variety of species of fragile environments, are part of the ecosystem that is now located in the new Coastal Marine Protected Area of Multiple Uses (AMCP-MU) called “Mar de Juan Fernandez”, placed in the archipelago of the same name.
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:36 UTC
Brazil's ex first lady dies; Lula da Silva allows donations of her organs
The wife of Brazil's embattled former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva died on Thursday, a week after she was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage, doctors in Sao Paulo said.“An absence of blood flow in the brain was identified,” doctors at the Sirio-Libanes hospital said, declaring Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva brain-dead.
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Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:13 UTC
Falklands' Police appealing to Darwin cemetery visitors to advance damages' investigation
The Royal Falkland Islands Police are continuing to investigate reported damage within the Argentine Cemetery near Darwin which was discovered during the last week of January. The damage refers to the vandalized case containing a statue of the Virgin of Lujan, and the image, overlooking the lines of crosses at the cemetery.
