Falkland Islands

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 05:07 UTC

  UK “defies South America” when it denies Argentina Malvinas sovereignty

  

  The Argentine representative before United Nations, Jorge Argüello claimed that the UK “defies the whole of South America” when it impedes Argentina from patrolling its own waters and exercising sovereignty over its own spaces.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  South Chile Hudson volcano erupts: fears it could repeat events of 1991

  

  Chile said on Wednesday it was evacuating residents from around the Hudson volcano in the country far south after it spewed a jet of steam a kilometre into the air and seismic activity triggered an avalanche.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 13:58 UTC

  Can the Falkland Islands achieve economic diversification borne from adversity?

  

  The launch this month by the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) of the Import Substitution Programme under the slogan, “Use Spades, Not Ships” bears striking parallels to the Grow More Food campaign established in war-time Britain during the Second World War. A campaign known better by its slogan – “Dig for Victory”.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 13:40 UTC

  HMS Montrose expected to arrive in the Falklands mid November

  

  Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose has set sail for a six-and-a-half month deployment to the Falkland Islands and other South Atlantic Islands to maintain a continuous presence protecting British interests.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 13:28 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers present Falklands’ motion before the Parliamentary Union

  

  Argentine lawmakers participating of the Inter Parliamentary Union, IPU, in Switzerland presented a motion referred to the Falklands/Malvinas, calling for a ban on the exploitation of natural resources in those countries that have been invaded by military forces.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  Leiv Eirksson oil rig leaves for the Falklands from Greenland next month

  

  When the Leiv Eriksson, a rig built to hunt for oil beneath 10,000 feet of water in the world’s roughest seas, finishes drilling a well off Greenland’s west coast next month, it will sail for its next job -- a prospect 9,000 miles away, south of the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 23:21 UTC

  Falklands in partnership with UK is creating a network of protected areas

  

  Conservation of penguins, rat eradication and creating a network of protected areas in the Falkland Islands are some of the projects currently under implementation by the UK Overseas Territories Environment Program, OTEP with local organizations.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 19:36 UTC

  Falklands Councillor, Emma Edwards, resigns from Legislative Assembly

  

  In a statement from Government House, issued last Friday, the 21st October, it was confirmed that Emma Edwards has resigned as a Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly (MLA). And that His Excellency the Governor, Mr Nigel Haywood CVO, had accepted “with regret” the resignation.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 15:57 UTC

  UK congratulates CFK and reiterates Falklands’ sovereignty is ‘not negotiable’

  

  The British government congratulated Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on her re-election and historic victory in Sunday’s polls but it also insisted that the sovereignty of the Falklands is “not negotiable”.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:50 UTC

  Argentine patrols harass Falklands’ licensed jiggers outside the port of Montevideo

  

  Spanish jiggers operating in the South Atlantic with Falkland Islands licences complain they are been harassed by the Argentine Navy just a few miles away from the port of Montevideo where they call for discharging, maintenance and bunkering.