Monday 12th July marked the beginning of Farmers' Week in the Falkland Islands.
The Gibraltar GSLP/Liberal Opposition consider that a visit by any Royal Navy vessel to Gibraltar has nothing to do with any foreign country and that the Spanish Government should mind its own business on the issue.
Connie Stevens, formerly, Marketing Manager for the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) began her interview with FIBS News Editor, Sue Gyford, on Tuesday by admitting that after just one week in her new job she was still finding her way.
Protests from all quarters in Spain re-opened the wounds of the HMS Tireless saga as the nuclear submarine sailed into Gibraltar last Friday.
When she left the Falkland Islands weekly, Penguin News, to run the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station (FIBS) in 2003, former Managing Editor Lisa Riddell was following in the footsteps of the previous Director, veteran broadcaster, Steve Johnston.
THE Falkland Islands Languages Organisation (FILO) said goodbye to its first overseas students on Saturday.
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A diplomatic storm seems to be brewing between Spain and the United Kingdom following Madrid's reaction to the coming visit to Gibraltar of a British nuclear powered submarine.
The Spanish government for the moment anticipated no reprisals for the latest visit to Gibraltar of the British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless. However it will examine the effects London's unfriendly acts may have on bilateral relations, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos insisted this Thursday in Madrid.
The Belgrano had barely been sunk when the chorus of criticism began that the downing of the Argentine warship by British forces was unjustified. Surprisingly, the man who might have most cause to echo those cries does not.