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.
With the purpose of resuming cultural links and ratifying the growing trade and communications relations with Magallanes Region in Chile, Falklands/Malvinas Islands governor Howard Pearce visited last week Punta Arenas, reports the local daily La Prensa Austral in this Monday's edition.
The main offices of the Chilean Antarctic Institute in Punta Arenas will be hosting beginning this Thursday a show of original photographs taken by Australian artist Frank Hurley during the Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic odyssey between 1914 and 1916.
A MAJOR international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth's most extreme environments - Antarctica - is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Answering a question from Member of Parliament Lyndsay Hoyle, United Kingdom Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said that the UK Government is committed to developing an effective relationship with the new Spanish Government on all Defence matters, including those relating to Gibraltar.