Falkland Islands

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 14:00 UTC

  Malvinas Families grateful to Argentine, UK governments and Islanders

  

  “We are most grateful to the governments of Argentina and Britain for having allowed us to go ahead with the homage, and to the Falkland Islanders for having left aside wounds of the past”, said Malvinas Families head Hector Cisneros at the successful completion of the first of two visits to the Falkland Islands.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ Government at UK Party Conferences

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) will be represented at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester from 5-8 October. Last week FIG was present at the Labor Party conference in Brighton.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:41 UTC

  Malvinas Families grieve their beloved at Darwin Argentine cemetery

  

  “A day for humanitarianism: leaving politics aside and providing relatives of the fallen with a right to grieve” was how Paul Martínez, First Secretary from Falkland Islands Government House described Saturday’s visit by 165 members of the Malvinas Families for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner to farewell Malvinas Families leaving for Falklands

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be at Rio Gallegos airport early Saturday morning to farewell the first group of Malvinas Families that will be flying to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2009 - 00:23 UTC

  Desire will drill four exploratory wells in North Falkland basin next February

  

  Oil company Desire Petroleum announced Friday the formal signing of a rig contract with Diamond Offshore Drilling Ltd. from the UK which means the company is ready to begin its exploratory drilling campaign in the North Falkland basin this summer.

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 23:08 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Jets are a real drag; General Election signals a changing of the guard; Governor interviewed by Argentina’s largest newspaper (Page 3)

• Friday, October 2nd 2009 - 13:22 UTC

  Image of Argentina’s patron Saint ready for final resting in Falklands

  

  An image of Argentina’s patron saint, Our Lady of Lujan, which during the last five years was taken in peregrination all over the country, will be blessed this coming weekend at her sanctuary in Buenos Aires before been flown to be enshrined at the Darwin Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands, according to reports in the Argentine media.

• Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 03:54 UTC

  Falkland Islands de-mining another step closer

  

  Two members of the De-mining Project Office (DPO) being set up by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to oversee de-mining in the Falklands this year, will arrive in the Islands on Thursday.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2009 - 13:37 UTC

  Falklands’ government “integral part” of discussions with Argentina

  

  Even when Argentina ignores Falkland Islanders and the Islands’ elected government and privileges the United Kingdom, “we are always integral part to the three legged discussions” pointed out former member of the Legislative Assembly Andrea Clausen in an interview with the Argentine press.

• Thursday, September 24th 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Building Falklands/South America relationship playing rugby

  

  A proposed visit by a team of rugby players to the Falkland Islands, scheduled to arrive for a week long visit on December 12, has caused controversy in the Islands, reports the Penguin News.