Stories for 2021

Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 08:31 UTC
New Falklands port gets green light to proceed as part of ambitious infrastructure investment program

Last Friday 10 September 2021, the Falkland Islands port project received ExCo (Executive Council) approval to proceed to Stage One B, Detailed Design, which will take place over the next 13 months. Stage One A began in July 2020 and involved an extensive series of stakeholder workshops, surveys, demand studies and environmental assessments in order to produce the initial Concept Design for the new facility.
Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 08:00 UTC
Pelé discharged from ICU but stays hospitalized

Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known worldwide as Pelé, has been discharged from São Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital's Intensive Care Unit Tuesday but will remain in the institution to continue with his recovery from a colon tumour surgery.
Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 07:17 UTC
Haiti PM dismisses prosecutor investigating him for President Moïse's assassination

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry Tuesday dismissed Prosecutor Bel-Ford Claude, who hours earlier had requested to open an investigation into the murder of President Jovenel Moïse which involved the current head of government.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 13:55 UTC
Vaccination of children aged 6 to 12 starts in Chile with Coronavac

Chile's health authorities have started vaccinating children aged between 6 and 12 against COVID-19 with the Chinese Coronavac drug to keep up the country's high immunization rate, which is among the most prolific worldwide.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:51 UTC
Brazil's STF may sentence Bolsonaro to pay fine over homophobic statements

A lawsuit filed against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro for statements made in March 2011 during a TV show at the time he was a deputy Monday reached the country's Federal Superior Court (STF).
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Relief in Brazilian markets, on the truce between Bolsonaro and the Justices

Brazil's Sao Paulo stock exchange recovered on Monday, helped by the positive climate in global markets plus the relative truce following the political-institutional clash of last week between president Jair Bolsonaro and the Supreme Federal Tribunal, even when questions persist among financial operators.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:23 UTC
Uruguay's Congress hit by coronavirus infections

A few Uruguayan lawmakers tested positive for SARS-Cov-2 forcing 48 people from the national Congress to go into isolation, it was reported Monday.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:05 UTC
Paraguayan FM keeps taking steps towards reopening of Argentine borders

Paraguay's Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo Monday met with the Governor of the Argentine Province of Salta Gustavo Sáenz to further discuss an improvement in bilateral ties which would eventually lead to the reopening of the borders.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:01 UTC
Uruguayan government warns border municipalities that reopening of border crossings with Argentina will take two months

Uruguayan federal authorities Monday conveyed to mayors of Salto (Andrés Lima), Paysandú (Nicolás Olivera) and Río Negro (Omar Lafluf) that the reopening of land crossings with Argentina will take at least two more months.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Remains found by Chilean scientists determined to belong to prehistoric flying dragon

Fossil remains found by a Chilean research team in the Atacama Desert have been determined to belong to a prehistoric pterosaur flying dragon, it was reported.