Falkland Islands

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 18:23 UTC

  Falklands tourism ready for brighter future after challenging year.

  

  WITH the global tourism outlook improving, overall tourist arrivals in the Falklands are forecast to increase by 17% in 2010.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 01:09 UTC

  Falklands’ Desire describes Liz well as “promising”; confirms drilling campaign

  

  Following the announcement of a gas discovery in the North Falklands Basin, Desire's Chairman Stephen Phipps describes the ‘The Liz’ well as, “complex and highly encouraging” and sufficiently promising to continue with the drilling campaign in Falklands’ waters.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner blasts UN “double standards” on Falklands’ resolutions

  

  “Don’t try to scare us with the ghost that we are going to take Malvinas militarily”, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the main commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 00:48 UTC

  Message from the Falkland Islands Government on the 28th Anniversary of the invasion by Argentina

  

  Today we remember the events of 2 April 1982 which led to the deaths of over nine hundred people in the Falkland Islands over a period of 74 days.

• Friday, April 2nd 2010 - 00:04 UTC

  Desire Petroleum plc - Drilling Update

  

  Desire Petroleum Plc (AIM:DES) the oil and gas exploration company, wholly focused on the North Falkland Basin, wishes to provide a further drilling update on the Liz 14/19-1 Exploration well, where wireline operations are continuing.

• Thursday, April 1st 2010 - 05:53 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Investors lose fortunes as oil shares plummet

  

  LOCAL investors – reputedly one in ten of the population – saw the value of their oil shares plummet this week as Desire Petroleum confirmed media speculation that the first oil found by the Ocean Guardian rig was of poor quality.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 20:47 UTC

  Falklands prepares for renewed UK Parliament with expected 50% turnover

  

  Member of the Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle said the Falkland Islands have a lot of work and lobbying ahead to maintain the current level of support from British Parliament since almost half of MPs will be resigning at the coming General Election, which could take place next May.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:48 UTC

  Falklands training ground for UK troops to be deployed in Afghanistan

  

  Eight thousand miles from the United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands more than 150 soldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment are preparing for war.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:40 UTC

  Falklands’ Desire shares slump following disappointing first well

  

  Shares in UK-Falklands Desire Petroleum slumped Monday as the company officially confirmed a disappointing result from the first drilling in its exploration campaign in the North Falkland Basin.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands: “no return to the 80s”, tacit UK/Argentine agreement

  

  Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said that UK and Argentina agree there is “no return to the eighties” regarding the Falkland Islands which he underlined are British as long as the Islanders so wish.