Falkland Islands

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Ex head of Falkland Islands Defense Force becomes member OBE

  

  In the New Year Honors 2024 Overseas and International List, among those who became members of the Order of the British Empire, OBE, is a Falkland Islander, who for many years served with the Falkland Islands Defense Force, FIDF, and lately as Commanding Officer of the force.

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

  Venezuela supports Argentina's claim to Malvinas

  

  Despite criticizing a judge's decision to hand over to the United States the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft seized in Buenos Aires, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry also issued Wednesday a declaration insisting that the Malvinas [Falkland] Islands were Argentine.

• Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:20 UTC

  1982 South Atlantic War: Crippa launches fundraiser to bring back his plane

  

  Retired Argentine Navy pilot Owen Crippa launched this week a fundraiser to bring back from the United States the Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339 with which he attacked the HMS Argonaut on May 21, 1982, during a reconnaissance mission amid the South Atlantic war over the Falkland Islands. He reportedly needs US$ 50,000.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 07:17 UTC

  BFSAI commander visits Radar Units in Falklands Mount Kent, Mount Alice and Byron Heights

  

  The Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands stationed at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands, Brigadier Dan Duff has done the round of the troops under his command as part of the Christmas message.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 06:33 UTC

  Minister Rutley's second visit to the Falklands in a month: big changes in South Atlantic fisheries policies?

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Caribbean, and Overseas Territories David Rutley has been to the Falkland Islands again this week, the second visit in a month, and in the meantime this did not prevent him from on December 10, to represent the British government in Buenos Aires for the taking office ceremony of Argentine extreme liberal president, Javier Milei.

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  When FIC tried to buy Peninsula Valdes and land in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The history section of daily “Diario del Fin del Mundo”, edited in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, recalls that almost a century and a half ago, more precisely December 1881, the Falkland Islands Company, FIC, “at the time with total control over the Falklands economy”, approached the Argentine government offering to buy the total of Peninsula Valdes, Chubut province and an area in Tierra del Fuego next to San Sebastian Bay, and its surrounding 160 leguas (league) for the rearing of sheep.

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 07:32 UTC

  Falklands Legislative Assembly members Christmas message

  

  Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly shared a Christmas best wishes message in the last session of 2023. Be it not for defense, which remains a UK responsibility, the eight elected members of the Assembly are in fact the internal government of the Falklands.

• Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 16:09 UTC

  Argentine airplane from 1982 to be restored and shown at museum?

  

  The Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339 used by then-Argentine Navy Lt Owen Crippa on May 21, 1982, to attack the HMS Argonaut is about to be flown from the United States to be restored in the city of Sunchales and later displayed at a museum, it was reported last week.

• Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  UK Prime Minister committed to defending Falklands' wish to remain British

  

  In his Christmas 2023 Message, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak invites the people of the Falkland Islands to look forward with pride and confidence sure of your determination to shape your own future and remain belonging to the British Family.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:29 UTC

  Falklands festivity: Christmas lights switched on in Stanley

  

  Christmas lights were switched on this week in the Falkland Islands capital, the City of Stanley. It was rather late, around 10pm because it's so near midsummer in the South Atlantic and in the Falklands that means light until late. Finally feeling festive!