Falkland Islands

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 17:51 UTC

  Reflections from our visit to the Falkland Islands

  

  A group of Central American journalists recently visited the Falkland Islands for a week as guests of the Foreign Office together with Bruce Callow from the UK Costa Rica embassy. The following is a first reflection just back from the Islands in Bruce’s blog.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 00:04 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers press Falklands’ issue on UK peers at Parliamentary Union

  

  Argentine lawmakers met with their UK peers and called for an end to unilateral hydrocarbons explorations in Falkland Islands waters and for an end to military exercises in the South Atlantic.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 20:46 UTC

  Tourist arrivals to the Falklands expected to increase 14.6% by end of 2012

  

  Tourist arrivals to the Falkland Islands are expected to increase by 14.6% in 2012 with a significant 28% increase in the number of leisure visitors, mainly driven by the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands war according to the September Falklands Forecast from the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 01:46 UTC

  South Georgia cruise season beats the trend and expects better one in 2012/13

  

  A small increase in cruise ship visitors to South Georgia compared to the previous season bucks the trend of the Antarctic region. In the 2011/12 season tourists to the Antarctic fell by 22%, whereas in South Georgia they increased 8%, according to the September edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 01:37 UTC

  US oil company team visit Falklands to assess industry’s infrastructure support

  

  US based Noble Energy and farm-in partners with Falkland Islands Oil and Gas (FOGL) visited the Falklands to meet with their partners and the Falklands government and to assess in-situ the oil related infrastructure.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 21:20 UTC

  FITB showcases Falklands worldwide

  

  MANAGING Director of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board Tony Mason is to lead a team of delegates from the Islands to World Travel Mart in London next month.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:16 UTC

  UK launches environmental and climate fund for Overseas Territories

  

  The UK has launched a new Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, which consolidates funds from the Foreign Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for International Development, dedicated to environmental and conservation projects in those territories.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 17:29 UTC

  UK sees Security Council with “no appetite” to address Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  The United Kingdom said it did not see ‘any appetite’ from the UN Security Council members to address the Falklands/Malvinas issue, following the election of Argentina as one of the five new non permanent members to the council on Thursday.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 01:35 UTC

  Chilean lawmaker wants Chiloé students to learn English in the Falklands

  

  Chilean lawmaker Gabriel Ascencio is promoting a program of scholarships for students from his constituency in the south of Chile to travel to the Falkland Islands to learn English and become proficient in the language.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 00:48 UTC

  Argentine military governor of the Falklands arrested for human rights violations

  

  The military governor of the Falkland Islands during Argentina’s brief occupation of the archipelago in 1982 was detained for his alleged role in human rights abuses at a notorious torture center in the 1970s, prosecutors said Thursday.