Falkland Islands

• Saturday, April 8th 2017 - 08:15 UTC

  Unique Falkland Islands photography in Central London for a second time.

  

  “The Falklands: 35 Years of Progress”, a unique collection of photographs showcasing the incredible landscape, wildlife and people of the Falkland Islands is coming to The A & D Gallery in London in June 2017.

• Thursday, April 6th 2017 - 06:31 UTC

  Tech entrepreneur wants to rescue Falklands' flagship HMS Hermes from the scrap heap

  

  A technology entrepreneur is looking to raise around £15m to save the Falklands Task Force flagship on which he once served from the possibility of scrap, and is looking to celebrities and the public to help him out on his mission, according to channelweb.co.uk Falklands flagship HMS Hermes was decommissioned last month and is heading towards the scrap heap.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 06:08 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government appoints Financial Secretary

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has announced the appointment of James Wilson as its Financial Secretary. After a short handover period with Lydia Morrison - who is currently the Interim Financial Secretary - he will formally take up his role on 1 June 2017.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - 10:10 UTC

  FIH independent directors still view Dolphin takeover approach as “unwelcome”

  

  FIH Group PLC said on Monday it still views a potential takeover approach from Dolphin Fund Ltd as “unwelcome” and recommends an existing bid from Staunton Holdings Ltd.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 10:37 UTC

  Macri mixed local politics in the Malvinas Fallen and Veterans Day anniversary

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri underlined that dialogue will facilitate the Malvinas sovereignty non-renounceable claim and ensure that it is really effective. The Argentine leader was addressing a delegation of Malvinas Fallen Relatives and Veterans, at the Olivos presidential residence on Sunday which marked the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 10:33 UTC

  Bertone invites Falkland Islanders to become Tierra del Fuego citizens

  

  Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone called the Falkland Islanders “fueguinos” and invited them to integrate based on respect for “cultural diversity”. Ms Bertone was addressing the crowd on Sunday at the Malvinas Fallen monument in Ushuaia on Sunday, 35th anniversary of the Argentine military invasion of the Falklands and which according to the local calendar is the Malvinas Veterans and Fallen Day.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 10:24 UTC

  “We will never cease to claim Malvinas”, but advancing along intelligent paths

  

  Argentina will never cease to claim Malvinas Islands sovereignty, but intelligent paths to advance on that purpose must also be found, said Ministry of Interior, Public Works and Housing Rogelio Frigerio on Sunday, in Ushuaia, during the main official event on the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the 1982 conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 09:07 UTC

  UK twice offered to return Malvinas, but twice Argentina rejected, now it's a fifty year game

  

  “Twice Great Britain offered to return Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty to Argentina, and Argentina frustrated the two opportunities”, and one of those offers involved the government of Margaret Thatcher, revealed diplomat Andrés Cisneros, Argentine deputy foreign minister with Guido Di Tella in the nineties.

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 08:23 UTC

  Falklands' Veterans in a “very moving ceremony” at the Memorial Arboretum

  

  Hundreds of veterans and their families took part in a “very, very moving” ceremony on Sunday to mark the 35th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands. Jane Adams, secretary of the South Atlantic Medal Association 1982 (Sama 82) who organized the event, said “there was many a tear” as people of different ranks and ages gathered at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

• Saturday, April 1st 2017 - 22:58 UTC

  Macri will receive Malvinas' Families and Combatants on Sunday 35th anniversary of the war

  

  Argentina prepares to commemorate this Sunday the Malvinas War Veterans and Fallen Day, which according to the official calendar marks the 35th anniversary of the start of the 1982 war when the Falklands were invaded by Argentine forces, leading to a 74-day conflict, which left 907 dead, (649 Argentines, 255 British and three Falkland Islanders).