Stories for May 2024

Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:31 UTC
Australia planning to end live animals exports; processed lamb and mutton sales overseas booming

Under the influence of animal welfare groups and declining profits, Australia plans to implement legislation to end the export of live animals in some four years time. Under the plan farmers who depend on such a trade will be helped to make the switch to domestic processing, which has turned into a booming success.
Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:26 UTC
Russia claims to have found huge oil reserves in Antarctica; UK feels it could mean a complete new ball game

The House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) held a special session on Russian oil exploration in the polar region, following on claims that the Rosgeo oil exploration company had reported that its research vessel Alexander Karpinsky has completed a comprehensive subsurface geological survey, mapping very promising oil and gas prospects on the Antarctic oil shelves.
Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 09:44 UTC
Falklands: Pharmacy Department's repeat prescriptions delays

The Falkland Islands Pharmacy Department would like to remind the public of the process to receive a repeat prescription while the Department is temporarily short-staff, as there could be a delay in the timing for collections of orders.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 20:45 UTC
Argentina passes IMF test with flying colors, will get US$ 800mn

After passing the eighth review of its debt refinancing program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Argentina is expected to receive a US$ 800 billion disbursement in the coming weeks, it was announced Monday. However, the transaction still needs to be approved by the IMF Board of Directors.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 20:09 UTC
Paraguayan beef granted entry into Canadian market

Canada's Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) greenlighted the entry of Paraguayan meat into their market with nine packing plants already authorized to start shipments. Paraguayan President Santiago Peña celebrated the good news with postings on social media. “I congratulate all the institutions and sectors involved for this important achievement,” he wrote.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 19:38 UTC
Brazil's Central Bank ups expansion forecast for 2024 to 2.09%

According to the latest issue of the Focus bulletin released Monday by Brazil's Central Bank (BCB), the economy in South America's largest country will grow by 2.09% this year, which represented an improvement from the previous 2.05% forecast, Agencia Brasil reported. The study also foresaw a yearly inflation of 3.76%.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Falklands war: “The secret pact between Chile and the United Kingdom”, ex-head of Argentine Army

A former commander in chief of the Argentine Army, 2003 to 2011, and Malvinas Veteran, Martín Balza in a recent column in the Buenos Aires daily Perfil, wrote a column exposing what he described as 'a secret pact between Chile and UK', to help avoid the defeat of the British Task Force in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict with Argentina.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
Milei and Lacalle Pou will meet eventually despite not sharing identical views, says Adorni

Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni said in an interview with Montevideo's El País that Presidents Luis Lacalle Pou and Javier Milei had different points of view regarding the State's role in each country's economy. The official also addressed the delay in materializing an encounter between both heads of state despite the short geographical distance separating them.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
LatAm and Caribbean hit hard by crises stemming from El Niño and climate change, according to WMO

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) pointed out last week that Latin America and the Caribbean were going through a series of weather crises linked to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change. The current one in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul was one of the worst.
Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:49 UTC
Massive aid promised to Rio Grande do Sul to overcome floods of biblical proportions

The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, has announced a package of emergency measures, plus humanitarian aid and special credits for rebuilding infrastructure in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul currently suffering from the worst floods in a century, with hundreds dead and disappeared, and over a million of the eleven million population forcibly displaced.