Falkland Islands

• Friday, January 21st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  
  Inquest into Antarctic death opens today; Sex case experts: Defence warns against waste of public money;
  Murrel Rd: is Black Point the answer?; Parent's rep elected;
  Toothfish farming takes first step; Busy cruise week; Tsunami Appeal still growing; Canadians leave tomorrow.

• Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  “Rockhopper” joins Falklands' oil exploration.

  In December, the issuing of two new licences for exploration and production by the Falkland Islands Government announced the arrival of a new player in the search for hydrocarbons in the South Atlantic.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  MOD Announce new GIB Commander British Forces

  Commodore Allan Adair RN has been appointed new Commander of British Forces following the shock death of his predecessor David White in circumstances that are still under investigation.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Positive feedback on security zone

  THE new security facilities at the public jetty and FIPASS have been running “very efficiently” and feedback from cruise companies has been favourable, according to the Director of Tourism

• Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Passage by paddle power; Sign up for the Falklands' first marathon; Naval escort as Ellen's trimaran passes through; Flood on BAS slip; New face at St Mary's; Tsunami appeal grows; Murrell meeting; Cruise ships this week; Fire inquiry: man ?rebailed'.

• Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Cause of flight refusal is ?administrative'

  THE Acting Governor says that Argentina refused a private aircraft permission to fly to the Falklands, not due to its destination but because of an “administrative problem.”

• Friday, January 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  South Atlantic rendezvous for Ellen

  The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gloucester has met up with round the world sailor Ellen MacArthur in the stormy South Atlantic west of the Falklands.

• Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands Veteran returns to record the ?forgotten voices'.

  “Within the Task Force there was no hatred of the Argentineans; there was just a feeling of the wastefulness of them not realising that they needed to give up until the bitter end.”

• Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Private jet couldn't fly direct from Argentine to Falklands.

  Government House has asked the British Embassy to follow up reports, after a request from Acting Governor Harriet Hall, which Argentina refused permission for a private plane to fly from Argentina to the Falklands.

• Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Red Ensign Conference in Falklands next month.

  The Red Ensign Conference, an annual event, which brings together in a series of meetings those British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, which have shipping registers and the UK Maritime and Coast Guard Agency, will be held for the first time in the Falkland Islands next month.