Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 06:12 UTC

  Falkland Island’s: Argentina reclaims “absolute and exclusive sovereignty over the Islands”

  

  Defence minister Arturo Puricelli said that Argentines “are not prepared to tolerate the usurpation” of the Malvinas Islands ‘for the rest of our lives’ and the honour and glory for those who fought in the South Atlantic “is going to be recalled until we obtain absolute and exclusive sovereignty over our Islands”.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 19:03 UTC

  Falklands’ companies receive ‘Superior Taste Award’ for Islands’ squid in Brussels seafood fair

  

  Two Falkland Islands fishing companies were awarded in Brussels last week the Superior Taste Award which was extended to Marfrío a Spanish processing company that works with Patagonian squid caught in the Islands waters.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 04:10 UTC

  Malvinas radical group begins campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine radical group involved in actions against cruise vessels and maritime traffic with the Falkland Islands has promised a similar campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires, the airline which flies the only link of the Islands with the continent.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 03:28 UTC

  South Georgia ‘area’ will be surveyed by Argentine scientific research vessel

  

  Argentina’s scientific research vessel “Dr. Eduardo L. Holmberg” left on Friday from Mar del Plata for the South Georgia area for a thirty day cruise in the framework of the Convention for the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources, CCAMLR, reports the Foreign Ministry from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 22:42 UTC

  Shackleton’s centenary scholarship to encourage scientific research in South Atlantic and Antarctica

  

  By Harold Briley - The Falkland Islands, South Georgia or the British Antarctic Territories stand to benefit from an ambitious science research project to commemorate Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 trans-Antarctic expedition.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 14:48 UTC

  Falkland Island's Conservation review and appeal on World Penguin Day

  

  This week penguins are celebrated through World Penguin Day (Thursday April 25) and Sarah Crofts from Falklands Conservation explains why more research is desirable on them in the Islands.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ lawmakers in a round of European visits to inform on referendum results

  

  A delegation of Falkland Islands lawmakers made a round of visits to European capitals and the European Union to inform on the recent referendum results in which an overwhelming turnout and vote indisputably decided the Islands wanted to remain as an Overseas Territory.

• Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 19:44 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ Desk in Foreign Office impresses visiting Chevening scholars

  

  Two Chevening scholars from British Overseas Territories visited the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London and were impressed at the number of staff focused on the Falklands and their knowledge and proactive stance towards the Islands.

• Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 02:49 UTC

  Falklands ‘is about people; it is not about rocks; about people self determining their future’

  

  “The Falkland Islands is about people; it is not about rocks. It is about people’s right to lead lives as they wish to lead them. As people in Argentina can: to live in peace, prosperity. It is about making their choices and leading their lives and having their home as an expression of their wishes, not somebody else’s wishes. They should be able to self-determine their own futures”.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 06:29 UTC

  Falkland Island's booming economy: request to develop two 200-bed accommodations

  

  In anticipation of the business opportunities the oil industry will bring to the Falkland Islands, a leading company has plans to build in the capital Stanley two temporary 200-bed accommodations, according to the planning applications received.