Falkland Islands

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Falklands' new port works scheduled to begin at the end of the month

  

  British contractor BAM Nuttall is set to start work at the end of this month on a new port for the Falklands Islands. The existing facilities will be replaced. BAM Nuttall was chosen by the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) in February to carry out the design and build contract for the new port. The contract was signed in early April but was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Eight Overseas Territories, including Falklands, committed to improve corporate transparency

  

  Ministers updated Parliament on Wednesday on a major step forward by the UK’s Overseas Territories to help improve global corporate transparency. The written statement welcomes commitments from eight Overseas Territories to introduce publicly accessible registers detailing who owns the companies in their Territory.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Galician shipyard launches new trawler for the Falklands' fisheries

  

  The Galician Nodosa shipyard launched this week a trawler-freezer, “Montelourido” which according to the Vigo media was ordered by Rampesca and their Falklands' partners RBC.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands/UK Airbridge limits seats for civilian passengers

  

  Quarantine requirements both in the United Kingdom and the Falkland Islands, combined with global restrictions in air travel, have led to changes to the South Atlantic Airbridge scheduling, it was announced by the Islands' government.
  Specifically, civilian passengers can only travel Southbound on every third flight.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Falklands' pub incident: NZ longliner crew members arrested; Magistrate court sentencing July 27

  

  Falkland Islands' Justices of the Peace last week remanded three individuals in custody after they entered guilty pleas for charges of violent disorder. Sonny Ball, Samuel Goldsworthy, and Chassy Duncan appeared at the Summary Court after they were involved in a serious incident on the evening of Monday 29 June.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Mint launches South Georgia 50-penny coins depicting Chinstrap penguins

  

  Penguins continue to be a popular motif for the Pobjoy Mint, which has just launched a new series of 50-penny coins depicting the flightless birds. The first coin in the 2020 50-penny coin series on behalf of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands features the chinstrap penguin.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands: journey info plus mandatory 14 day quarantine for arriving passengers by air or sea

  

  The Falkland Islands Infectious Diseases Control Regulations 2020, which set out the requirement to quarantine for all those arriving in the Islands, whether by sea or air came into force on Monday, July 6.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:04 UTC

  Falklands' visitors growing satisfaction, according to TripAdvsor ratings

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board annual assessment of TripAdvisor ratings shows that the overall satisfaction of visitors to the Islands increased in 2019. There are almost 5,000 ratings of accommodation, attractions, pubs, restaurants, and tours in the Falklands on TripAdvisor, with 600 of these being posted over the last 12 months.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Mercosur presidential summit can't forget support for Argentina's claim over the Falklands

  

  Mercosur full-member presidents and their associate peers backed Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in the framework of the 56th Heads of State summit, which took place in Paraguay through a video conference when the pro tempore chair was delivered by Brazil to Uruguay for the second half of 2020.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Falkland Islands: one positive antibody test in March, but no coronavirus results for over sixty days

  

  The Falkland Islands government has confirmed that one individual has tested positive for Coronavirus antibodies. Chief Medical Officer, Dr Rebecca Edwards, said that it is likely that the individual was exposed in late February or early March, and exposure is thought to have taken place on a fishing vessel.