Stories for June 1st 2018

Friday, June 1st 2018 - 20:01 UTC
London tube operator interested in operating Buenos Aires underground system

British underground operator Transport for London (TfL) is keen on securing a multi-million dollar contract with Buenos Aires City to operate the city’s underground network, one of the first to be inaugurated in the world. According to a February report in The Times, TfL is one of a number of international underground transport operators to have expressed interest in the contract.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 18:44 UTC
Falkland Islands Government publishes Budget for 2018/19

The Falkland Islands Government has set out its medium term plan for the Islands with an ambitious Budget designed to ensure that we have solid foundations for future economic, social and political development.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 09:00 UTC
Tierra del Fuego insists with a representative in the SW Atlantic Fisheries sub committee

Tierra del Fuego media and Clarin in Buenos Aires coincide that foreign minister Jorge Faurie has admitted the possibility for a representative from the extreme south province to attend the Argentine/UK South West Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Sub Committee meetings, which were recently re-launched at the Argentine capital.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 08:55 UTC
Argentina delists Malvinas petitioner Betts, and his shady turncoat past begins to surface

Alejandro Jacobo Betts, Argentine citizen, born as Alexander Jacob Betts in the Falkland Islands, where he lived with a family until the end of the 1982 conflict, has been delisted from the Argentine delegation to this year's United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24 meeting scheduled for this month in New York.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 08:02 UTC
Falklands' Loligo first season squid catch, the best in the last five years

The Falkland Islands' total catch of the loligo squid, or Falklands' calamari, in the first season of 2018 was 43,085 tons, which compares very favorably to first-season catches over the last five years.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:45 UTC
Global expansion in 2018/19 expected to hover near 4%, forecasts OECD

The global economy is experiencing stronger growth, driven by a rebound in trade, higher investment and buoyant job creation, and supported by very accommodative monetary policy and fiscal easing, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:35 UTC
Guyana on the global energy map: oil production expected to reach 600.000bpd

The Norwegian oil and gas research firm Rystad Energy is predicting that Guyana's oil sector could generate annual revenue of US$15 billion and that the government would pocket most of the profit generated from the explorations.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:22 UTC
Russian billionaire Abramovich's UK visa delay, freezes Chelsea's stadium plans

Chelsea's Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has put the club's stadium plans on hold after delays to the renewal of his UK visa. The estimated cost for a new 60,000 seat Stamford Bridge has increased to £1bn after delays, which included a dispute with a local family.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:09 UTC
Different flavors, but Italian pizza: coalition government takes office this Friday

A coalition government has been agreed in Italy, ending months of uncertainty in the EU's fourth-biggest economy. Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week and the new government will be sworn in this Friday, June first.
Friday, June 1st 2018 - 06:48 UTC
“Mr. Rajoy your time is up”, Socialist Sanchez calls for the resignation of the conservative leader

Spain’s Partido Popular government appeared doomed last night to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the centre-left PSOE poised to take power. A Basque nationalist party’s decisive announcement that it would vote in favor of the motion spelled the almost certain end of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s mandate and foretold the stunning collapse of his minority government in a parliamentary vote today Friday, when it will be short of support to survive.