On 30 September 2004, Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL or the Company) announced the launch of an offer for subscription (Offer) to raise up to £ 2,000,000 through the issue of up to 5,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.002p each (Ordinary Shares) at 40p per share.
The board of Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company (PHFC) remains at odds with Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, its own financial adviser, in spite of an improved offer for the company from Falkland Islands Holdings (FIH).
Spain seeks to build a future of shared coexistence with Gibraltar which Gibraltarians are comfortable with. This was the message from the Spanish Government in its statement to the United Nations Fourth Committee on Decolonization, delivered last week shortly after the session was addressed by Chief Minister Peter Caruana and Opposition Leader Joe Bossano.
HMS Dumbarton Castle arrived in Stanley Friday morning. She replaces HMS Leeds Castle as the permanent Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel.
Following an initiative by Falklands' Councillor Summers during a meeting in Brussels last December, a proposal has been worked on with the French Overseas Territories of St Pierre & Miquelon and with representatives of Greenland (Denmark) for a training course on aquaculture to be funded by the European Commission Development Fund.
British Antarctic Survey Twin Otters and the Dash-7 should be arriving in the Falkland Islands next week.
BRITISH Ambassador-designate to Buenos Aires, Mr. John Hughes was in the Falklands on a fact-finding tour this week accompanied by Mr. Tony Crombie,Head of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Overseas Territories
Department.
Headlines:
Exciting opportunities ahead; Ambassador-designate visits Islands;
News in brief:
Fishing update; Cover comb shearing.
At the British Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth this Wednesday Jonathan Evans the leader of the Conservative members of the European Parliament thanked Bernard Hazell from the Gibraltar branch for the outstanding election result there in June, where the party achieved a massive 70% of votes cast.
If Argentina wants to discuss the subject of flights between the South American continent and the Falklands, then they should first respond to the British proposals on the table said Falkland Islands Governor, Howard Pearce, speaking in Stanley, on Tuesday.