Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 02:54 UTC

  Falklands at online meeting of UKBOTs, preparing for next Joint Ministerial Council

  

  The Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, represented the Government of Gibraltar at an online meeting of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association to prepare for this year’s Joint Ministerial Council in November.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2026 - 23:59 UTC

  Milei authorizes US Southern Command to patrol Argentine southern sea in strategic shift

  

  Javier Milei's government on Wednesday announced the signing of a letter of intent with the United States for joint patrolling of the South Atlantic over the next five years, in a military cooperation agreement that ratifies Buenos Aires's strategic alignment with the Donald Trump administration and that has triggered alarms over Argentine sovereignty in its maritime spaces. The agreement, signed by the US Southern Command and Argentine Navy authorities, involves the supply of US technology to modernize the South American country's naval equipment and, at the same time, authorizes the participation of US forces in patrolling the Argentine southern sea.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2026 - 12:17 UTC

  Falklands marks in May the landing of British forces and the liberation of Goose Green

  

  May is a month of commemoration for the population of the Falkland Islands, as the 44th anniversary of the Argentine armed invasion falls this month — an occupation that was defeated and expelled following the landing of the Task Force dispatched by London.

• Monday, May 18th 2026 - 05:37 UTC

  The Falklands turn into a small South Atlantic economic power as the ghosts of 1982 return

  

  The Falkland Islands are going through their traditional “commemoration season,” the cycle of ceremonies that recall the 1982 war each year, culminating in Liberation Day on 14 June, at a moment defined by two overlapping realities: the consolidation of the archipelago as a small economic power in the South Atlantic and the reactivation of diplomatic tensions with the United States and Argentina. A feature published on Saturday by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, written by Matthew Campbell from Fitzroy, captures the contrast between growing economic prosperity and the anxiety generated by the recent leak of a Pentagon memorandum.

• Friday, May 15th 2026 - 03:43 UTC

  Falklands, artists film on local talent and works

  

  Watch our new short film exploring arts and culture in the Falkland Islands. Released alongside the latest exhibition by celebrated Ceramicist and Islander Graham Bound, the film features local artists sharing their work and speaking about how the Falklands insp them.

• Wednesday, May 13th 2026 - 23:41 UTC

  Falklands representative meets Starmer at State Opening of UK Parliament

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Representative to the United Kingdom and Europe, Richard Hyslop, attended the formal opening of the British parliamentary year on Wednesday, 13 May, and held talks with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the Minister for the UK Overseas Territories, Stephen Doughty, at the reception held after the ceremony. The meeting reaffirms the political alignment between London and Stanley at a moment of international diplomatic tension over the sovereignty of the archipelago.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 13:28 UTC

  UK Defense minister “sick and tired of journalists and armchair generals” talking our military are ‘unprepared’

  

  In a contradictory remark he would later retract, UK Defense Readiness & Industry Minister Luke Pollard said he was sick and tired of “journalists and armchair generals” talking down the military, as he was pressed in response to a BFBS Forces News audience poll.

• Monday, May 11th 2026 - 08:34 UTC

  Falklands: revised FIGAS Winter Flying Program, May/September 2026

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Air Service (FIGAS) will introduce a revised winter flying program from 11 May 2026 to 13 September 2026. This follows consideration of the proposal at the Transport Advisory Committee (TAC), and a briefing to Members of Legislative Assembly earlier this week. Under the revised program, scheduled FIGAS passenger flights will operate on: Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday This represents a temporary reduction from the usual winter flying pattern.

• Friday, May 8th 2026 - 01:20 UTC

  Falklands brace for Middle East fallout with fuel, shipping and supply contingencies

  

  The conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and its consequences for the global supply of oil and other derivative products have not bypassed the Falkland Islands, which, as one local lawmaker put it, sit “at the tail end of global distribution.”

• Thursday, May 7th 2026 - 23:08 UTC

  Falklands students send special message to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

  

  Students from the Falkland Islands' schools have prepared a video message for Sir David Attenborough to mark the broadcaster and naturalist's 100th birthday, which he will celebrate on Friday, May 8. The initiative, announced by the Falkland Islands Government's London Office, seeks to recognise the influence Sir David's documentary series have had on the archipelago's younger generations and his career-long role in showcasing the islands' natural heritage internationally.