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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
STRANGE tidal activity has been witnessed around the Falklands and is believed to be a result of the sea bed earthquake and tsunami which caused devastation in southeastern Asian countries and the east Africa coast.
Britain will commemorate this year the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar which saw the defeat of the Spanish-French fleet confirming the supremacy of the Royal Navy.
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