Falkland Islands

• Sunday, November 3rd 2013 - 00:47 UTC

  Falklands considering alternative financial services in the form of a credit union

  

  A locally owned and managed credit union, “run by the people that it serves” that would provide savings, credit and other financial services to its members, is the subject of a newly released suitability study by the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) and was discussed at public consultation meetings at the Chamber of Commerce and the Goose Green Social Club this week.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 23:49 UTC

  Falklands government contracts London's fastest growing communications agency

  

  London’s fastest-growing communications agency, Pagefield, has been appointed by the Falkland Islands Government to provide strategic and tactical advice in relation to all public relations and media issues in the UK, following a competitive pitch.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 13:52 UTC

  Falklands' Assembly candidates discuss 'personality clashes' in the legislative of a small community

  

  Personality clashes in an elected assembly of a small community where virtually everybody knows each other, such is the case of the Falkland Islands and its almost 3.000 residents, was one of the issues discussed during an electoral debate ahead of the 7 November General Election chaired by the local radio station, FIRS, and Penguin News.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Falklands' electoral debate suggests alternative air-link and better facilities for tourism

  

  An alternative north-south air-link and better facilities for tourism development surfaced at the Falkland Islands candidates debate ahead of 7 November General Election during the FIRS/Penguin News press conference earlier this week.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  Malvinas' flagged vessels ideological solidarity with Argentina costs Uruguay lost jobs and income

  

  To the loss of transshipments from Argentina, estimated in 100 million dollars a year by Montevideo port authorities, must be added the 60 million dollars following the ban on Falklands' flagged vessels from operating in Uruguay, claimed Mario Baubeta, president of Uruguay's Navigation Centre.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:14 UTC

  Malvinas claim 'enshrined in the Constitution and supported by all political parties'

  

  Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro in a letter published in The Times, defended the “peaceful call” from President Cristina Fernandez to dialogue and negotiations on the Malvinas Islands issue and underlined that the sovereignty claim over the Islands is 'enshrined in the national constitution'.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 14:09 UTC

  Falklands General Election: an important choice for a time of change

  

  The constitution of the Falkland Islands requires that a general election be held every four years to choose the eight members of the Islands’ Legislative Assembly or lower house of government. The next General Election is due to be held on November 7th this year.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:13 UTC

  NASA solves the mystery of a “city of lights” in the South Atlantic night: jiggers

  

  When in December 2012, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center and the NASA Earth Observatory released a new map of the Earth as it appears at night they “found something fishy off the coast of Argentina” but now the mystery has been solved. About 300 to 500 kilometers offshore, a city of light appeared in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats.

• Monday, October 28th 2013 - 20:24 UTC

  Falklands lawmakers: “The full time problem”

  

  Falkland Islands are holding elections next 7 November and eleven candidates will be disputing the five Legislative Assembly seats for Stanly and five the three for the Camp.

• Thursday, October 24th 2013 - 21:10 UTC

  Falklands praises inter-parliamentary friendship group announced in Panama Assembly

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has welcomed an announcement from the Panamanian National Assembly approving the formation of the Falkland Islands–Panamanian Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group.