Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, February 8th 2017 - 10:17 UTC

  Falklands' oil exploration: Rockhopper announces investments in Sea Lion

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc has provided its latest operational and corporate update which includes the North Falkland Basin Sea Lion project and has announced that the technical engineering is approaching conclusion and a settlement on the Eirik Raude rig dispute has been reached.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2017 - 10:01 UTC

  Falklands attends UKOTs Brexit implications forum in London

  

  British Overseas Territories representatives, including from the Falkland Islands held a two-day meeting in London to address Brexit implications such as development funds, tariff free fish exports and the right to travel freely through the European Union. The meeting was in the framework of Prime Minister Theresa May's administration initiative to involve all parts of the UK in preparing for the crucial negotiations.

• Monday, February 6th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers UK visit “very positive”; all bilateral agenda issues, and Falklands were addressed

  

  The speaker of the Argentine Senate, Federico Pinedo, described the multi-party lawmakers delegation visit to the UK as “very positive” since issues of the bilateral agenda were addressed, including Argentina's historic claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 12:58 UTC

  Patagonia/Falklands links under consideration by Aerolineas, reveals Chubut governor

  

  The Argentine government is considering the possibility of having Aerolineas Argentinas fly round trips to the Falklands from Trelew or from Comodoro Rivadavia, or alternatively Trelew/Rio Gallegos/Falklands, according to Patagonian Chubut province governor Mario Das Neves.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 06:56 UTC

  Lami Dozo, head of the Argentine Air Force in the 1982 conflict has died

  

  Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, commander of the Argentine Air Force during the South Atlantic conflict died this week at the age of 88. In 1981 he was appointed to the military Junta next to General Leopoldo Galtieri and Admiral Jorge Anaya, and the three were responsible for launching the invasion of the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:42 UTC

  Falklands implements closer educational links with Chilean university

  

  A Chilean professor from the Chilean British University in Santiago will be arriving in the Falkland Islands on Saturday to begin the implementation process of the MOU signed between the Islands government and the university to have Chilean students complete their degree levels in Falklands.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:13 UTC

  Falklands' Police appealing to Darwin cemetery visitors to advance damages' investigation

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police are continuing to investigate reported damage within the Argentine Cemetery near Darwin which was discovered during the last week of January. The damage refers to the vandalized case containing a statue of the Virgin of Lujan, and the image, overlooking the lines of crosses at the cemetery.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  Falkland Islands receives Red Cross representatives

  

  Two representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) tasked with identifying fallen Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery, are due to arrive in the Falkland Islands on Thursday, 2nd February for 9 days.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine lawmakers propose two “spaces of confidence” one with UK, the other with Islanders

  

  Argentine lawmakers visiting the UK proposed “generating a space of confidence between Argentina and the UK, and between Argentina and the Islanders, so that in the future a good faith discussion” on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty can be addressed. Likewise additional flights to the Falklands must at some point call in Argentina.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 10:41 UTC

  Scholarship in Uruguay available for a Falklands student

  

  American Field Service (AFS) is offering a scholarship to an outstanding student from the Falkland Islands to take part in a funded exchange program in Uruguay. The scholarship is collaboration between the Falkland Islands Government and AFS which MLA Barry Elsby has been working on.