Falkland Islands

• Friday, July 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Bill Rammell MP launches UK Overseas Territories inaugural newsletter.

  “The United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association is an important forum in which issues of interest and concern to the United Kingdom Overseas Territories can be discussed,” says Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell MP, who today will launch the inaugural United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) newsletter, at the CPA Room in Westminster Hall.

• Thursday, July 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia arms vessel to combat toothfish poaching.

  Australian authorities have fitted an Antarctic research ship with machine guns in a bid to increase efforts to deter Patagonian toothfish poachers in the Southern Ocean.

• Tuesday, June 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Air links: get real Bielsa”.

  “Let's forget fantasy and live in the real world”, suggests a prominent member of the Falkland Islands community in an “open letter” to Argentine Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa following a further authorization by the Argentine government for an Argentine airline to fly to the Islands.

• Monday, June 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Princess Anne arrives in Gibraltar; Spain lodges formal complaint; Cruise issue: UK seeks permanent solution; Spain continues military blockade; Financial journalists invited to the Rock.

• Friday, June 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Ten years of midwinter madness; European funding bid progresses: agreement signed; New oil exploration company for Falklands drilling; More problems forWorld Discoverer; Councillors meet Bielsa; Murder on St Helena.

• Thursday, June 24th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Vessel in “Falklands area” involved in labour dispute.

  A formal request from the maritime agent of the fishing vessel “Globalpesca 1”, currently fishing in the Falkland Islands area will enable the discharge of an injured seaman immobilized since early June, reports Punta Arenas La Prensa Austral.

• Thursday, June 24th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  New oil company to explore offshore South and East Falklands.

  Falkland Islands Holdings PLC (“FIH”) announced this Wednesday that in conjunction with its joint venture partners, Global Petroleum Limited (?Global') and Hardman Resources Limited (?HRL'), that it has reached agreement with RAB Special Situations Fund, a fund managed by AIM listed hedge fund manager, RAB Capital plc (?RAB') to fund the next 12 to 18 months work on their petroleum exploration licence offshore the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Twenty two years on: commemorating liberation.

  A cool but calm and clear day greeted members of the public who gathered to witness the annual Liberation Day parade.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  International Hague Court “only alternative” for dispute

  The International Court of the Hague is the “only alternative” capable of introducing new dynamics to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, because “there are no more options for Argentina regarding Malvinas”, states Marcel Kohen an International Law Professor from the Geneva High Studies Institute.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Wayne Rooney: The “new” Pele.

  Forget Diego Maradona - The 18 year old English 'wonder kind' Wayne Rooney is, according to England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, the greatest teenage talent to emerge since Pele.