Falkland Islands

• Saturday, August 6th 2011 - 00:15 UTC

  Falklands refuses refund request from fishing companies on ‘value of catch’

  

  Some fishing companies are feeling “a bit hard done by” having been caught out by a change in the Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Department refunds policy implemented for 2011, said Director of Fisheries John Barton.

• Friday, August 5th 2011 - 19:17 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas conflict: To honour the dead, not use them

  

  Argentine Veterans of the 1982 conflict want the bodies of the 123 “unknowns” at Darwin cemetery to be identified.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:49 UTC

  Malvinas veterans ask for anthropologists to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery

  

  A Centre of Malvinas War Veterans and next of kin presented a petition before a federal court requesting the identification of Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of their death during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Falklands’ active participation at forum on democracy and transparency

  

  Making the democratic process more clear and transparent and parliamentary reform were among the main issues debated at the 57th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference CPA, held last week in London and where the Falklands were represented by Dick Sawle, Member of the Islands Legislative Assembly.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil reiterates Falklands-flagged vessels will be banned from entering its ports

  

  Brazil reiterated its intention of banning all Falklands’ flagged vessels from calling at the country’s ports and described as “illegal” the current round of oil exploration in the Islands’ waters.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2011 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentina confident negotiations on Malvinas question ‘will take place’

  

  Britain can’t go on shielding behind its membership of the UN Security Council to avoid dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas question, but Argentina is confident “negotiations will take place” said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in Paris following a meeting with his French peer Alain Juppé.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 23:30 UTC

  Falklands present at the centennial of the Commonwealth’s Parliamentary Conference

  

  Legislative Assembly Member Dick Sawle will represent the Falkland Islands at the 57th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference next week in London which on this occasion will have a very special significance: the founding centennial of the Commonwealth’s oldest organization.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:43 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh arrives in the Falklands after visiting Cape Town

  

  The Portsmouth-based destroyer HMS Edinburgh faced some mountainous seas on the 4,000-mile passage from Cape Town to Mare Harbour in the Falkland Islands, her base for the next five or so months as she patrols Britain’s South Atlantic territories.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  Falklands’ third appraisal oil well results should be known by end of August

  

  Falklands’ Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas explorer, pressed ahead with its hunt for oil in the North Falklands with the drilling of its third appraisal well on the Sea Lion Discovery feature last week.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge thank Falklands for wedding gifts

  

  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have thanked the Falkland Islands Government and the people of the Falkland Islands for their recent wedding gifts.