Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, April 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Exercise Cassin Falcon shows off Falklands Air Defence systems

  

  The invitation “for interested military and civilian personnel” to have an opportunity to watch the live firing of both the High-Velocity and Rapier missile systems drew a mixed audience on Wednesday, ranging from Deputy Governor, Miss Harriett Hall, to school children on holiday, a Swiss journalist and even Sergio Zagier, an Argentine writer and publisher of guide books.

• Monday, April 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Impact assessment needed for high seas area

  

  The Falkland Islands Fisheries Department has been preparing its case for the continued allowance of controlled trawling on the high seas.

• Friday, April 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Penguin News weekly update

  

  Headlines:
  'Bash' helps bring veterans back; Pension trustees angered by subsidy loss; Gainer withdraws from tourism job; 190 expected at Forum; Blaze aboard Irizar; Summer time ends this weekend.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ups and downs of Falkland Islands squid fisheries

  At the Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Committee meeting on Wednesday April 4th, Director of Fisheries, John Barton, reported that the Loligo squid fishery had a slow start. Catches to date had totalled 11,000 metric tonnes as compared to 16,500 metric tonnes for the same period last year.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  MoD seeks help to clear thousands of mines

  

  The Ministry of Defence is looking for a private company to clear the Falklands of the estimated 25,000 Argentine mines still buried there, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Governor defends Police over flag incident.

  The Falkland Islands Governor Mr. Alan Huckle has defended the policy adopted by the local Police Force after a group of Argentine 1982 war veterans raised an Argentine flag in the Cemetery at Darwin on Monday 2nd April, the 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the islands. Many islanders questioned why the Police did not forcibly prevent the veterans from displaying the flag on British sovereign territory.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Conflict: this was not a war of Nuñez versus Clement.

  

  Today, Wednesday 4th April, Mario Oscar Nuñez, late of the 12th Argentine Infantry Regiment and Gary Clement, late of 45 Commando, Royal Marines, set off from Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, known to the Argentineans as Las Islas Malvinas, on a journey, which would take them approximately one hundred kilometres and twenty-five years back in time.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Flying Falklands visit by Shadow Foreign Secretary

  

  Former leader of the British Conservative Party, now Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague paid what was literally a flying visit to the Falkland Islands on Tuesday.

• Sunday, April 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' forgotten soldiers, remembered at last

  

  In case anyone, anywhere in the world is still in doubt, given the constant stream of journalists arriving and leaving the Falkland Islands during the last few weeks, April 2nd marks for Falkland Islanders the twenty-fifth anniversary of the invasion of their country by Argentina.

• Sunday, April 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: UK's “continuing regret” over loss of life on both sides

  

  On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, April 2, the United Kingdom expressed “continuing regret” over the loss of life on both sides of the South Atlantic conflict.