Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, May 8th 2013 - 19:48 UTC

  Reassurance for Falklands and Gibraltar

  

  By Harold Briley from London - The Falkland Islands and Gibraltar have been reassured by the British Government that it will protect their right to choose their own way of government. The pledge was contained in the Government’s programmer and new laws for the forthcoming session of Parliament, outlined in the traditional Queen’s Speech to both Houses of Parliament.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2013 - 16:28 UTC

  Falklands/Gibraltar: Queen reaffirms protection and self determination of British Overseas Territories

  

  Britain reaffirmed on Wednesday that it will ensure and protect the right to the Falkland Islanders and Gibraltarians to determine their political futures. The strong message was included in HM Queen Elizabeth traditional annual address to Parliament setting out the legislative program for the government of PM David Cameron.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 08:42 UTC

  Falklands/South Georgia dispute placed by Argentina under the CCALMR umbrella

  

  The Buenos Aires media is reporting a potential incident situation in South Georgia waters which could erupt into something more complicated from the moment the Argentine research vessel ‘Eduardo Holmberg’ has been involved in scientific activities in a zone which last year was declared by the UK as a Maritime Protected Area, MPA, and which Argentina does not recognize since it considers it ‘an area in dispute’.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 02:00 UTC

  Falkland Island’s delegation with over forty athletes will participate in NatWest Island Games in Bermuda

  

  The full squad of competitors representing the Falkland Islands at the upcoming NatWest Island Games taking place in Bermuda from July 13 to 19 has been announced.

• Monday, May 6th 2013 - 07:27 UTC

  Falkland Islands: “British sovereignty over the Islands as such, is not accepted by the European Parliament”

  

  “British sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands as such is not accepted by the European Parliament”, according to a visiting delegation of EU lawmakers who met with their Argentine peers in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:54 UTC

  Malvinas’ radicals protest and pledge to end Lan Chile air link with the Falklands

  

  The Argentine radical group ‘Resistencia Malvinas’ protested on Thursday midday before the Lan Chile offices in downtown Buenos Aires to demand the end of the weekly air link between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands. The group led by Toni Lopez and with drums banging displayed banners, distributed pamphlets and burnt Union Jacks.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ census shows there are more new homes than new people

  

  The release of further data from the 2012 Census shows that the Falkland Islands continues to work its magic on immigrants who may have arrived with short term plans but have settled for ten or more years and that the ratio of women to men in the Islands has increased considerably over the last four decades.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez leads ceremony to honour 323 crewmembers from torpedoed ‘General Belgrano’

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez honoured the memory of the 323 crew members from the cruiser “General Belgrano” who lost their lives during the Malvinas war, “today, 31 years ago” and described the British torpedo attack on the vessel as “a criminal and coward action”.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 05:44 UTC

  Malvinas dispute ‘will only end when Argentina has full, definitive possession of the Islands’, insists Puricelli

  

  The Malvinas cause will only come to an end when Argentina has definitive possession of the Islands, said Argentine defence minister Arturo Puricelli during a military ceremony to remember the 31st anniversary of the loss of cruiser ‘General Belgrano”, during the Falklands’ conflict torpedoed on 2 May 1982 by a Royal Navy submersible with the loss of 323 lives.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 03:29 UTC

  Falkland Islands as oil-producing country: boon or blight?

  

  For some, the prospect of the Falkland Islands becoming an oil-producing country creates exciting visions of opportunity, while for others it seems like a nightmare. What is certain is that oil, like sheep and fishing before it, will inevitably bring changes to both our wealth and our way of life.