Stories for August 11th 2017

Friday, August 11th 2017 - 20:26 UTC
Falklands' SAERI lead in Ascension Island tropical marine research

The Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (*) has this month released a special issue focussing on Ascension Island’s marine biodiversity. Falklands' based SAERI Director Dr Paul Brickle explained that 20 papers reported on the results of 202 sampling events, comprising a mixture of quantitative SCUBA surveys involving belt transects for fish and mobile fauna and quadrat photography for sessile fauna.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 12:19 UTC
Ex top officer calls Brexit a “catastrophe”; proposes a new party “The Democrats” with the Remainers

UK government ministers have been put under pressure by David Davis’s former chief of staff at the Brexit department after he asked a serious of pointed question about how leaving the EU will affect their patches. James Chapman, who also worked for George Osborne and as political editor of the Daily Mail, has revealed his belief that Brexit would be a “catastrophe”.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 11:57 UTC
Temer heckled after addressing a business conference in Rio do Janeiro

President Michel Temer, whose popularity is the lowest for a Brazilian head of state in decades and who last week was spared from standing trial on corruption charges by the vote of his allies in Congress, was booed at the conclusion of his appearance at a trade fair in Rio do Janeiro.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 11:54 UTC
Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America drops for second year running

The flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Latin America and the Caribbean shrank 7.9% in 2016 compared with 2015, totaling US$167.043 billion, representing a 17% decline from the peak reached in 2011, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) revealed at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 11:36 UTC
Massive 356 kilos emerald unearthed in northern Brazil

A massive 356 kilos emerald was unearthed recently by miners inside the Carnaiba Mine in Brazil. This incredible emerald specimen stands 1.3 meters tall and is valued at approximately US$ 309 million.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:32 UTC
Argentina Sunday's primary election: a re-edition of the Cristina Fernandez/Macri dispute

On Sunday Argentines will be able to choose their candidates to the Senate and Lower House for the midterm October elections, in a process known as PASO, which means open mandatory, simultaneous primaries for all parties, but which are not compulsory for the electoral roll.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:16 UTC
Falklands' Argentine cemetery clandestine photos: Red Cross has all the facts and identity of the alleged individual

”Everything was caught on camera and there is an ongoing investigation,” the International Red Cross has confirmed, referring to the controversy in July when images of the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands were reproduced in the Argentine press.
Friday, August 11th 2017 - 07:57 UTC
Falklands' second Loligo season very promising but by-catch of fur seals forces an exclusion zone

The Falkland Islands second Loligo squid season has taken with very good catches, but good catches also means abundance of the cephalopodus, and... of those sea mammals that feed on them. Because of this a temporary exclusion zone around Beauchene Island was put in place on Thursday making this productive area for Loligo squid out of bounds to fishing vessels.