Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 07:39 UTC

  Falklands announces 2012 first collector coin: Life cycle of the butterfly

  

  The Treasury of the Falkland Islands Government announced the launch of their first collector coin for 2012, which features the Life Cycle of the Butterfly.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers after Socialist International support in Falklands’ dispute

  

  Members of Argentina’s opposition expect the Socialist International meeting in Costa Rica to express solidarity with Argentina’s Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty claim and also call on the UK to begin negotiations.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 18:27 UTC

  Caribbean Community recognizes Falklands’ right to self determination

  

  Ministers attending the Seventh Ministerial United Kingdom-Caribbean Forum have agreed an Action Plan, which recognises the right of self determination for the Falkland Islanders.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 17:19 UTC

  US oil company makes 1.6bn dollars offer for Falklands’ Rockhopper: shares soar

  

  Rockhopper Exploration Plc shares surged in London trading following a report that Texas based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. is in talks with the only company to have made a commercial oil discovery off the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 16:51 UTC

  Falklands: The years that count and those that don't

  

  By John Fowler - This is the sixth of a series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler. John is a former Superintendent of Education and a former Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  “Hard to understand why a country of 45 million threatens the Falklands with 3.000 inhabitants”

  

  A member from the Falkland Islands’ elected Legislative Assembly said it’s hard to understand why a country of 45 million people like Argentina insists in threatening a country of 3.000, and underlined there’s not a single Islander who wants to be an Argentine.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  A “psychological war” to persuade UK to negotiate Falklands’ sovereignty

  

  So far it’s a psychological war to try and persuade the British to begin Falkland Islands a sovereignty discussion with Argentina but there is nothing to discuss about since the Islanders don’t want to belong to Argentina and that’s it, said UK retired Major General Julian Thompson.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 20:45 UTC

  “Argentina not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas”, says Timerman

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman said that Argentina “is not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas” but only wants “to counter British interests” based on the Unasur and Mercosur decisions to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels from having access to regional ports.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Falklands confirms second oil rig has reached the Islands; spudding planned for Monday

  

  Falklands oil industry sources confirmed that the semi-submersible Leiv Eiriksson oil exploration rig has reached Falklands’ waters and should be spudding its first well next Monday.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Falklands operation to release land from Argentine planted antipersonnel mines

  

  A project to release land from antipersonnel mines planted by the Argentine invaded forces during the 1982 Falklands conflict is “progressing solidly” said Guy Lucas, Chief Executive Officer from BACTEC a group which specializes in explosive ordnance, mine action and bomb disposal.