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Montevideo, September 7th 2024 - 23:32 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 06:41 UTC

    Falklands, instructions for pensioners receiving payments from overseas

    If you have not received your pension payment by 30 August 2024 please contact fips@sec.gov.fk or call the Pensions Office on +500 28417 or +500 28442

    Due to unforeseen circumstances, the overseas payment system, Straight to Bank, is experiencing an issue. The Falkland Islands Government are working with Standard Chartered to urgently investigate this issue and an update will be provided as soon as we have more information.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 06:39 UTC

    Falklands: Love Penguins, Gypsy Cove and Yorke Bay guidance

    Respect the wardens’ instructions. Wardens have been employed to look after the penguins’ welfare. Photo: Proefdier

    With the upcoming cruise ship season approaching, the Falkland Islands Government Environment Department has been working in partnership with Falkland Islands Tourist Board to create and implement a set of guidelines for operators and tourists visiting the Gypsy Cove and Yorke Bay penguin colonies on cruise ship days.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 22:06 UTC

    Venezuelan gov't offered Sandinista fighters in case of civil war

    Lula's “was not a very clean government,” Ortega claimed. “I could say a dozen more things,” he went on.

    Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro the help of his “Sandinista fighters” in case of civil war in the South American country, where the opposition insists on not admitting the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement that the incumbent had been reelected on July 28.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 15:39 UTC

    HRW against repeating Venezuelan elections

    Goebertus also urged these three “governments to insist on independent verification of the results”

    The governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia were sent letters by Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointing out that repeating the elections In Venezuela would serve no purpose. The New York-headquartered non-governmental organization known for advocating in favor of political prisoners and other victims of injustice added that the proposal put forward by these three Latin American countries would be a “mockery,” while granting President Nicolás Maduro's regime an amnesty “would violate international law and affect the rights of victims of atrocities.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

    Latin America on alert over oropuche spread

    Before the July 25, 2024, report from Brazilian authorities, there was no record of oropouche being deadly

    With two confirmed deaths caused by oropouche, health authorities in Brazil, Cuba and Colombia are concerned about the recent outbreak of the malady in the region. Other countries do not even keep track of the number of patients who might have contracted the disease and are therefore doing little to nothing to prevent it from spreading, not even after the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) alert last month.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    Jet fuel shortage grounds numerous flights in Colombia

    Carriers able to fly as scheduled have upped the price of their tickets by 50%

    Jet fuel shortages have led airlines operating in Colombia to reschedule their services. The problem was reportedly caused by an electrical failure at the Cartagena refinery on Aug. 16.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    Foreign Ministers of Iran and Venezuela ratify partnership

    “We reaffirmed the solid friendship between our countries,” Gil stressed

    The Foreign Ministers of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Iran, Abbas Araghchi, held a telephone conversation during which their countries' willingness to expand bilateral cooperation.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:39 UTC

    Falklands, expect a week of Islands television and radio services outages

    The outages are due to disruption of the signal from the satellite to BFBS receivers by the sun’s rays and are completely unavoidable

    Falkland Islands residents of Stanley and Camp are advised that there will be a disruption to TV and radio services due to sun outages affecting satellite reception in late August into September.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:29 UTC

    Norwegian cruise company promotes South Atlantic and Antarctica in China market

    The road-show is scheduled to take place from Sept. 9 to 13, 2024, with events in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai.

    A leading Norwegian cruise line, pioneer in South Atlantic and Antarctica expeditions is pushing its marketing efforts in China with a new road-show that will visit three cities in the country.