Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 - 15:41 UTC

  Falklands reports good catches of Loligo and rock cod in seven months of 2010

  

  The Loligo and Rock cod fisheries have performed well over the first seven months of 2010, although it is too early to predict the overall performance for the year confirmed Falkland Islands Government Director of Natural Resources John Barton.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 08:01 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Tussac planted in place of mines

  

  OVER the course of two weekends Falklands Conservation staff and volunteers led by Dr Rebecca Upson, Falklands Conservation’s Plant and Habitats Officer, have carried out restoration work on two sites recently cleared of mines.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2010 - 23:46 UTC

  Argos Resources raised £ 22 million for hydrocarbons exploration in Falklands

  

  Argos Resources with exploration licences in the North Falkland Basin expects its shares to be admitted to trading on AIM on Thursday 29 July. Argos Resources has raised £22 million (£20.6 million net of costs) in a placing of new ordinary shares at 31 pence per share which will give the company a market capitalisation of £67 million.

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 22:39 UTC

  Rockhopper spuds second well in Falklands North Basin

  

  Rockhopper Exploration (AIM: RKH) announced that on Friday early morning it had spudded Ernest 26/6-1 exploration well in the North Falkland Basin, the second well the British company is drilling following the successful discovery of oil in its Sea Lion prospect.

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Argentina walks out of Prosecutors organization to protest Falklands’ membership

  

  Argentina walked out of the International Association of Prosecutors, IAP, because the Falkland Islands were admitted as a full member of the organization according to press reports from Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2010 - 09:02 UTC

  Falklands’ oil exploration continues with Rockhopper ready to drill second well

  

  Rockhopper Exploration the only company so far to have announced the discovery of oil in Falklands’ waters is preparing to spud its second well in the North Falkland basin, the company announced in a release.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2010 - 23:47 UTC

  Argentina blockading the Falklands with “no respect for Islanders human rights”

  

  The Falklands Chamber of Commerce claims that Argentina has in effect imposed a sea-blockade of the civilian population of the Falklands with no respect whatsoever for the human rights of the Falkland Islanders, while at the same time it cynically promotes commitment to human rights on the world stage.

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 19:47 UTC

  Falklands FCO official steps in to help Islander mum and new baby home from Chile.

  

  A young Falklands mum, and her prematurely born baby, who found themselves immobilized in Chile due to documentation problems, have made it home thanks to a determined mother and a Government House official.

• Friday, July 16th 2010 - 15:56 UTC

  Falklands’ oil exploration to continue with second Rockhopper drill

  

  Oil fortunes ebbed and flowed this week as one exploration company abandoned its well, another looked forward to a second bumper find, and a new player joined the race for black gold in Falklands’ waters.

• Thursday, July 15th 2010 - 05:38 UTC

  Snowy Falklands’ remembrance for special Forces’ thinking mans warrior’

  

  IN a freezing mountainside ceremony on East Falkland Islands today British Special Forces veterans and Falkland Islanders paid tribute to a Special Boat Service Sergeant killed on June 2, 1982.