Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Argentina dedicates April 2nd to honor Malvinas war fallen combatants and veterans

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be receiving this Tuesday relatives of Malvinas fallen and veterans at the official residence in Olivos for a commemoration of the 37th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 06:39 UTC

  Falkland Islands Tree Planting At RAF Mount Pleasant Fails To Branch Out

  

  Personnel deployed in the Falkland Islands are met by the sight of trees, but they aren’t just any old trees, these trees grow …er, sideways. British Armed Forces personnel are pleasantly surprised upon arrival at their final destination when posted to RAF Mount Pleasant Complex on the windswept archipelago.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 06:21 UTC

  HMS Clyde to be transferred to the Brazilian navy at the end of 2019

  

  Brazilian media are reporting that the country is to take over HMS Clyde when the Offshore Patrol Vessel leaves Royal Navy service in the Falkland Islands. The news was reportedly announced during a recent event, “Brazil-United Kingdom Defense Industry Dialogue”, held in the Brazilian Navy Cultural Center in São Paulo.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina begins commemoration acts of Malvinas War

  

  In anticipation of the 37th anniversary of the start of the South Atlantic conflict, 2 April 1982, the Argentine football association and Army have organized a raft of events to pay homage to the 649 combatants fallen during the invasion of the British South Atlantic Islands claimed by Argentina.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  UK's The Grand Tour motoring program call Argentina “God's cesspit”

  

  The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond has reignited the trio’s feud with Argentina by calling the country ‘God’s cesspit’. Jeremy Clarkson famously managed to rile millions of Argentines back in 2014 when he drove through Patagonia for an episode of Top Gear with a license plate number which read H982 FKL, sparking complaints the vehicle was referring to the Falklands War.

• Friday, March 29th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands Police correct Argentine flag incident coverage

  

  The Royal Falkland Island Police have corrected reports in the Argentine press this week. Eight men filmed holding banners and singing at the Argentine military cemetery had been reported in their national press as having been detained for two days in “a tense situation.”

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Falklands' fleet will incorporate state of the art trawler in 2021

  

  The Falkland Islands will add to its registered fleet a state of the art trawler which should be operational by 2021 belonging to a local joint venture company, Petrel Fishing Company Ltd. In early 2019, the Board of Fortuna Ltd approved the construction of a new trawler to join their current fleet of five trawlers. The vessel will be owned and operated by Fortuna Joint Venture Company - “Petrel Fishing Company Ltd”.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Brexit reaches Falklands: EU Galileo sensor station to be removed from the Islands

  

  As it is increasingly likely that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union without a deal on 12 April, the European Commission is completing its “no-deal” preparations, says the EC' daily news report.

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Vessel linked to Falklands' history and turned into Bristol museum competing for the EU Museum of the Year

  

  A vessel closely linked to the Falkland Islands' history and which was later to become the heart of the SS Great Britain in Bristol museum, is one of three British museums nominated along with the British Motor Museum and the D-Day Story at Portsmouth which have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 European Museum of the Year, (EMYA) Award. Last year’s EMYA winner was London’s Design Museum.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  The Falkland Islands states its position: Preparing for Brexit

  

  On 23 June 2016, the people of the UK and Gibraltar voted by a majority to leave the European Union (EU). In this article the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) sets out what work has taken place since the referendum to prepare the Falkland Islands for Brexit.