Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Astonishment over missing fishermen in Falklands waters.

  

  Acting Chief of Police in the Falkland Islands, Inspector Len McGill, told Mercopress on Tuesday, that he had no reason to believe that two crewmen who had jumped from a Taiwanese jigger in Berkeley Sound had suffered mistreatment or physical abuse.

• Monday, May 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Petition to save Falklands' warship attracts 2.200 signatures

  

  An online petition to save a Falkland Islands warship from the scrap yard and bring it to Plymouth has closed after attracting 2,201 signatures, reports BBC.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: Penguin News Weekly Update

  

  Headlines:
  Tourist Board: no confidence vote for directors; Pension reversal; Harriet lands new job; War losses remembered; A long distance interview; Expo plans progress.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Record skate for Falklands Fishery

  

  A rough-skinned skate (dipturus trachyderma) measuring 2.5 metres in length and described as the biggest recorded in Falklands waters, was displayed to the public recently.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Disaster management team in the Falkland Islands

  

  “To spread the word that preparedness does save lives” This was the reason given by Frank Savage, adviser on disaster management to the British Foreign and Commonwealth's Overseas Territories Department (FCO/OTD), why he and colleague, Roger Bellers of the Department for International Development (DFID) are in the Falkland Islands this week.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Decisive Falklands War actions recalled. Vulcan bomber raid and Belgrano

  

  Two of the most dramatic actions of the 1982 Falklands War have been recalled in a series of media reports in the United Kingdom 25 years after they took place - the sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano with heavy loss of life and the attack on Stanley airport by a British Vulcan bomber in the longest air raid flight in history.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  No confidence vote for Falkland Islands Tourist Board

  

  Dissatisfaction turned into action on Friday 27th April when members of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) passed a vote of no confidence in the Board, at an extraordinary general meeting.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar recommends trilateral dialogue process for Falklands

  

  Gibraltar Government agrees with Rafael Estrella, one of the architect's of the current Spanish government dialogue policy and now Spain's Ambassador to Argentina, that the Trilateral Forum of Dialogue model could be usefully applied to the Falklands, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Desire Petroleum: pretax loss and no rig on sight

  Desire Petroleum PLC swung to full-year pretax loss due to the strengthening of the pound against the dollar reported the company.

• Friday, April 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: Penguin News weekly update

  

  Headlines:
  
  Tim picks up her MBE; Exploring the southern wilderness; Smoking ban looms; 'Frustrated' Argentines; Tourism meeting today.
  
  Inside Penguin News: Past Finders repair historic corral; Queen's Birthday Parade; HE's First trip to South Georgia.