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Falkland Islands

  • Friday, July 5th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

    Calling the Malvinas: Argentine news broadcast in English from Rio Grande

    Rio Grande the city from where the news cooked in Buenos Aires is broadcast

    Since Wednesday midnight Radio Nacional from Radio Grande is broadcasting news in English targeted to the Falkland Islands. The news bulletin has been prepared by Radio Nacional Buenos Aires through Radio Argentina al Exterior and will be broadcasted at the break of every day, reports Tierra del Fuego media.

  • Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 11:54 UTC

    Interview with Dick Sawle, Falklands MLA

    Hon. Dick Sawle, one of the members of the local Legislative Assembly.

    The holding of a self-determination referendum in the Falklands Islands in March this year attracted media attention all over the world. Once more, British democratic culture and the concept of self-determination clashed with government by decree and the use of force to impose a certain political system. Some weeks later, with the Islands out of the limelight but while tensions remain, Help Catalonia talked to Hon. Dick Sawle, one of the members of the local Legislative Assembly.

  • Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 11:45 UTC

    Rockhopper: High Court confirms the cancellation of the Company's Share Premium Account

    Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the North Falkland Basin oil and gas company, announces that at a hearing today, the Companies Court of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice confirmed the cancellation of the Company's share premium account (“Cancellation of Share Premium Account”). The Cancellation of the Share Premium Account is expected to become effective tomorrow, 4 July 2013.

  • Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 08:00 UTC

    Argentina captures a Spanish vessel for presumed illegal fishing in the Argentine Sea.

    The fishing vessel Piscator (IMO: 8801163) is sailing to Pto. Madryn

    The Argentine Coast Guard (the Prefectura) has captured a Spanish flagged vessel in waters of the Argentine Sea that was carrying out fishing activities presumed to be without authorisation, Coast Guard sources confirmed to EFE today.

  • Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 - 18:50 UTC

    Falkland Islands Tourist Board Manager talks past successes and future plans

    Falkland Islands Tourist Board, Managing Director Tony Mason

    AT the end of his first year directing the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, Managing Director Tony Mason shares the past year's accomplishments and a vision for the future.

  • Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 - 02:10 UTC

    Timerman warns about South Atlantic nuclear threat

    Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman

    Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman ratified his government’s “commitment with nuclear safety” and warned about the continued dangers of “militarization in the South Atlantic Ocean.”

  • Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

    Falklands Referendum: Voters from many countries around the world voted Yes

    By Professor Peter Willetts - In March, 1,513 people in the Falklands voted Yes to remaining a British Overseas Territory and only three people voted No. The Yes vote was a remarkable 99.8% of the voters on an exceptionally high turnout of 92.0%. The orthodox view that British voters chose to remain British is not enough to explain the result.

  • Wednesday, June 26th 2013 - 15:24 UTC

    Preserving independence for the Falklands

    Falkland Islanders celebrating results of the March referendum (Pic by T.Chater)

    By Mike Summers (*)
    Published in The Washington Times

    In 1776, a group of American patriots wrote a letter to their king informing him they were unhappy with their political status and had plans to change it. Americans know this story well. That letter, the Declaration of Independence, formed the United States' profound belief that we all have “certain unalienable rights,” including “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

    Falklands: memories needed for a thesis on the SS Great Britain, Bristol’s main heritage attraction

    In 1970 Brunel’s SS Great Britain would travel 8.000 miles back to its original birthplace in Bristol’s harbour

    PHD student James Muirhead, based in Bristol’s Brunel Institute, is preparing for a trip to the Falkland Islands where he hopes to collect memories of the SS Great Britain which was abandoned there at Sparrow Cove in 1937.

  • Monday, June 24th 2013 - 03:03 UTC

    Falklands: Sierra Leone says self-determination is paramount and supports sending C24 mission to the Islands

    Sierra Leone delegate Osman Kamara “people are the holders of the right to self-determination”

    Sierra Leone, member of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization maintained that the rights of the Islanders, present in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands for 180 years, should be paramount to any settlement and that self determination was the guiding principle of any resolution to the question. “There is no dispute that the people are the holders of the right to self-determination”.