Falkland Islands

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Falklands: access to MPC remains restricted for fourteen days

  

  The government of the Falkland Islands and officials from Mount Pleasant Complex held on Sunday an extraordinary meeting and decided that access to the Complex will remain restricted for the next fourteen days given the sanitary situation at MPC.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 07:03 UTC

  An enriching year for Falklands Biography Dictionary

  

  2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 02:30 UTC

  The first Pitaluga to arrive in the Falklands: 1838

  

  The 1851 census noted Andreas Pintaluga as a gaucho. The son of Benito and Celestina he was born in Gibraltar in 1822.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Falklands new port will require 900,000 tons of stone

  

  Falkland Island lawmaker, MLA Roger Edwards, portfolio holder for Public Works spoke about the ongoing project for the new port to replace FIPASS, (Falklands Interim Port and Storage System) and the resources it will require, among which some 900,000 tons of stone.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands‘ sovereignty: in UN letter, UK makes clear to Argentina its historical and legal position

  

  Last 14 January, the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations addressed a letter to the Secretary-General. The letter, in accordance with instructions received from the UK Government, was to refer to the letter dated 30 December 2020 from the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, addressed to the Secretary-General.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Falklands new ITQ system, motivates launch of new joint venture, Polar Seafish

  

  Two Falkland Islands companies, Seaview and Seafish, announced the formation of a new joint venture fishing company named Polar Seafish Ltd – a merger of Polar Ltd and Nova Seafish Ltd.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Stanley's RPI drops in last quarter: reduced cost of fuel and power

  

  The Falkland Islands capital, Stanley Retail Price Index (RPI) indicated that the cost of living has dropped again in the last quarter of 2020 after a steady increase in the previous two quarters.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Falklands prepares a grand celebration for the 125th anniversary of Camp Education

  

  2021 is the 125th anniversary of Camp Education in the Falkland Islands and with it being “such a fundamental part of what makes the Falklands the unique environment it is we should all be involved in celebrating it,” former Camp teacher Heather Norman told Penguin News.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president ratifies support for Argentina claims in the Falklands' dispute

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera ratified his administration's support for “Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands,” and called for Argentina and UK to resume talks to find a peaceful solution to the controversy in the framework of UN resolutions on the issue.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Falklands currently has seven Covid-19 positive cases, but with no need of hospital admission

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has offered an update of Covid-19 swabbing results as of Tuesday 26 January, indicating that of 6,685 processed tests, seven are currently positive, completing quarantine, but none of them has required hospital admission.