Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 13:29 UTC

  Falklands set for ‘peaceful’ relationship with new FCO Overseas Territory official?

  

  The Falkland Islands may be set to have a more peaceful relationship with the new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories, than with the last.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 02:39 UTC

  Argentina declares Darwin memorial “national historic place”

  

  The Argentine cemetery in Darwin, Falkland Islands, has been declared by the Argentine government a “national historic place”. The bill with the initiative was approved by Congress on May 13 and promulgated June 4th, according to the Tuesday publication in the official gazette.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:44 UTC

  Repsol, Petrobras and BP to explore for oil next to Falklands’ waters

  

  A consortium led by Spanish oil firm Repsol YPF SA (REP) plans to explore for oil in international waters between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, officials from the company said Monday.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 05:18 UTC

  Falklands call for Argentine Co-operation

  

  The Falklands Islands Government has again called on Argentina to join with them in maintaining good co-operative relations and welcomed the agreement for the forthcoming Argentine relatives’ pilgrimage to inaugurate the Falklands cemetery Darwin where their 1982 war dead are buried. The Islanders also respect the need for Argentine veterans of the war to visit the battlefields where they fought.

• Monday, June 8th 2009 - 20:23 UTC

  Four New Directors Appointed at the Falkland Islands Tourist Board

  

  A new Board of Directors was appointed at the Annual General Meeting of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, held on Thursday 4th June. Five of the existing directors will remain on the board, with four new directors joining them.

• Friday, June 5th 2009 - 13:16 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: ‘A step back for the West’ - SAAS is forced to drop Fox Bay from its schedule; Will Falklands Landholdings split up its farms?; Shackleton joins Ross and Fitzroy at school; Islander abroad honoured.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 - 09:36 UTC

  “Little-known stories” about 1914 are myths

  

  Last week’s Penguin News carried an article by John Fowler, “War veteran publishes little known stories”, about the account by Colonel Tamaño entitled “Historias poco conocidas: Un ferrocarril en las Malvinas” [“Little-known stories: A railway in the Malvinas”], published recently on the Argentine army website soldadosdigital.com.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 - 21:40 UTC

  Land-based tourism worth £3.2 million a year to the Falkland Islands

  

  According to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board, overnight visitors spent an estimated £3.2 million in the Falkland Islands in 2008.

• Sunday, May 31st 2009 - 15:57 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine war veteran publishes little known stories

  

  WITH one or two significant exceptions, like the notorious Major Patricio Dowling, our invaders in 1982 were largely anonymous to the citizens of
  Stanley, particularly the ordinary soldiers in their helmets and flapping rubber ponchos.

• Saturday, May 30th 2009 - 15:43 UTC

  UK reaffirms Falklands’ sovereignty on postage stamps issue

  

  Britain stands by its decision to issue postage stamps from the disputed territories of and around the Falkland Islands, according to a letter to the UN secretary-general made public at the United Nations Headquarters in New York this week.