Falkland Islands

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 10:41 UTC

  UK private helicopter company begins Falklands' around the clock air operations

  

  British International Helicopters (BIH) has begun flight operations in the Falkland Islands, working alongside Britain’s military forces in the region to provide a range of vital air support services. Following the award of a ten-year, £180 million contract last year, Britain’s largest UK-owned helicopter operator will undertake a range of assignments including around the clock, all-weather search and rescue, helicopter emergency services, rescue hoist operations, and passenger and cargo transfers.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 05:11 UTC

  Chile downplays Argentina's continental shelf extension which included Falklands and Antarctic territory

  

  A strong controversy is expected following statements from Chilean officials who downplayed the significance of the recent UN continental shelf maritime extension referred to Argentina and which included the Falklands, South Atlantic Islands and Antarctica territory.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2016 - 04:05 UTC

  Falklands will join a world chain of beacons on Thursday celebrating Queen's 90th birthday

  

  The Falkland Islands will join on Thursday the timely British tradition of celebrating royal occasions lighting beacons throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday on 21st April, announced the Falklands' government.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 00:31 UTC

  Falklands reports poor catches of squid; reimbursement of licenses to be considered in June

  

  Falkland Islands authorities have confirmed that Illex squid capture has been particularly low this fishing season, a situation that could lead the Islands government to reimburse part of the license fees paid to catch cephalopods.

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 10:28 UTC

  Argentine travel agencies promote Falklands' weeklong tour package

  

  The network of Argentine travel agencies under the umbrella organization Lufthansa CityCenter, has come up with a package for Argentines wishing to travel to the Falkland Islands, in search of a cultural approach with an emotive tour of the historic sites of the Islands.

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 09:20 UTC

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

  

  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 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 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 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

  

  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.