Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 16:11 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ 2012 oil exploration drilling round announced by FOGL

  

  Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd plans to raise £32m through a placing of shares at 70p each, with the money earmarked for the oil and gas exploration company’s 2012 drilling program, according to a release from the company heavily involved in exploration to the South and East of the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:41 UTC

  Falklands’ explosives disposal team has dealt with 2.8 million ordnance items in 29 years

  

  After almost twenty nine years of service to the Falkland Islands the Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal team based at Hillside Camp in the capital Stanley will be transferring its service to JSEOD teams based at the Mount Pleasant Complex.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:34 UTC

  Falklands’ Health Services praised by UK Ministry of Defence audit

  

  An audit into the Falkland Islands Health Service praised the quality care to patients and the impressively wide provision of health care services for such a remote and isolated community.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 18:57 UTC

  RAF biggest ever aircraft transport and tanker begins testing in UK

  

  The Royal Air Force largest ever aircraft with a 60 metre wingspan and nearly 60 metres long arrived in the UK for the first time this week, the MOD has announced. The new future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has also been named publicly by the RAF as Voyager.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 10:03 UTC

  Desire plugs Ninky well, plans to move to East Flank based on positive 3D

  

  Falkland Islands Desire Petroleum reported Monday that it had completed the drilling of its Ninky prospect (2.620 metres) which showed the reservoir quality “is generally poor” and therefore the well will be plugged and abandoned, according to an official report released Monday.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 19:59 UTC

  Falklands’ deports Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences

  

  Two Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences for drugs related crimes in the Falkland Islands have been deported and since last Sunday are back in Spain, reports the Islands Police Headquarters.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 03:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands represented at Royal Wedding

  

  A Falkland Islander will be joining the ranks of the privileged few at the Royal Wedding of the Prince William and Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey on April 29.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 17:19 UTC

  Falklands’ farmers benefit from all time high wool prices

  

  Falkland Islands producers have cause for celebration this season with wool prices at an all time high.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 13:23 UTC

  Falklands names Islander new Mineral Resources Director, beginning 2012

  

  The Falkland Islands has nominated an Islander as new Director of Mineral Resources who will be taking over from Phyl Rendell when she retires as the end of the year, announced the government of the Islands.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:43 UTC

  Falklands’ skua population has declined by almost half in five years

  

  The number of Falkland Islands skua has declined by almost half in just five years, a survey of the bird's largest breeding ground reveals. It is unclear why the population has crashed on New Island, on the west of the Falkland Islands.
  Something appears to be limiting the birds' ability to reproduce, say scientists.