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Montevideo, April 28th 2025 - 07:39 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Monday, April 18th 2016 - 09:20 UTC

    Argentine runner plans to honor Argentine and British servicemen buried in Falklands

    Scomparin's 'Link Malvinas' project includes a daily run along the most emblematic sites such as battle grounds, Fitz Roy, Mount Longdon, Darwin, San Carlos

    An Argentine amateur marathon runner plans next December to join 'Falklands emblematic sites', covering a distance of 280 kilometers in six days which will conclude the last leg linking the two cemeteries, Argentine and British “as a message of peace and dialogue”.

  • Saturday, April 16th 2016 - 09:44 UTC

    A view of the Falkland Islands by the British Consul in Uruguay

    Katharine Felton next to the Stanley Welcome signpost (Pic FB)

    Katharine Felton writes the highlights of her one week experience in the archipelago. - Last week I visited the Falkland Islands for the first time - to learn more about the Islands and look at how their links with Uruguay, and vice versa, can be strengthened.

  • Saturday, April 16th 2016 - 08:06 UTC

    Falklands' Lord Penguin is in town; Mike Summers visits new friends in Montreal

    Lord Penguin visiting friends in Montreal proudly displays his tie inspired in penguins

    Lord Penguin is in town. Actually he's no Lord or penguin, but ”I was after an intriguing headline for the meeting between Mike Summers, member of the Falklands' Legislative Assembly, Malouins in French, who this week is in Montreal to see his friend...the dragon (software programmer) Serge Beauchemin. I hope he forgives me for this fantasy”.

  • Friday, April 15th 2016 - 05:16 UTC

    Falklands' Queen's Birthday Parade to take place on Thursday 21st April

    The Parade will proceed along the usual lines, and will be followed by a march past at which His Excellency the Governor will take the Royal Salute.

    The Falkland Islands elected government has announced details of the parade to celebrate the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen to be held at Stanley's Victory Green on Thursday 21st April 2016. The parade will form up at Victory Green at 10.20 hours and His Excellency the Governor will arrive at 10.30 hours.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2016 - 09:23 UTC

    Chilean company fined by Argentina after admitting operating with Falklands' license

    Apparently Juan Benegas mistakenly received an email which stated that Union Sur had obtained a Falklands' fishing license, and reported the matter.

    Argentina's Ministry of Agro-Industry has slapped the maximum fine to a Chilean fishing company, firm Empresas de Desarrollo Pesquero de Chile SA (Emdepes SA), a Chilean subsidiary of the Japanese group Nissui for illegal fishing activities in 2014 in Argentina's EEZ, close to the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 21:33 UTC

    Falklands receives visit from Central American journalists

    The group of journalists with MLA Barry Elsby and MLA Michael Poole at Gilbert House

    A group of five Central American journalists, including one from Honduras, visited the Falkland Islands to learn more about the politics, economy and life in the Islands. The invitation was made by the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to media representatives from Panama (Diario La Prensa), Costa Rica (Diario El Extra), El Salvador (El Diario de Hoy), Belize (The Reporter Press), and Honduras (El Heraldo).

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2016 - 05:32 UTC

    Falklands launch collection of crown coins to honor the Queen's 90th birthday

    Falklands' One Crown. The reverse depicts the Queen’s official silver jubilee portrait from 1977, with a privy mark of Windsor Castle

    As the 90th birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II approaches, the British Overseas Territories of Ascension, British Antarctic Territory, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, and South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands have launched a collection of crown coins to mark this milestone occasion.

  • Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 21:56 UTC

    Career diplomat Kralikas named head of Malvinas Islands Under Secretary

    Ms Kralikas is a lawyer and career diplomat which has held several overseas posts

    Career diplomat Maria Teresa Kralikas has been nominated head of the Malvinas Islands Under Secretary in the Argentine Foreign Ministry. Ms Kralikas is a lawyer and until now was one of the ministry's Under Secretariats.

  • Friday, April 8th 2016 - 07:38 UTC

    Falklands celebrates the 150 years of Port Howard historic farming

    A view of Port Howard, which has been a pioneer in Falklands' farming

    Falkland Islands celebrated the 150 years of a farm in West Falkland at a ceremony held in Port Howard, honoring owners Christopher and Myles Lee that were presented with a plaque celebrating the century and a half of the farm being operational, at an historic Legislative Assembly held in the community hall last week.

  • Friday, April 8th 2016 - 05:07 UTC

    MP Rosindell blasts 'direct rule' for BOTs as 'unnecessary and unjust'

    “I feel it would be both unnecessary and unjust to impose direct rule and force BOTs to raise their tax rates”, and leaving other nations and their OTs untouched.

    A UK member of Parliament has come out strongly in support of the British Overseas Territories praising their economic success and the right of their peoples to govern and decide their own future. MP Andrew Rosindell, Chairman of the BOT and Crown Dependencies all party Parliamentary groups described suggestions from some senior figures in Westminster calling for 'direct rule' over BOT's as unnecessary and unjust, based on a complete misunderstanding of the situation.