Falkland Islands

• Monday, March 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Hot News from the Coast

  Headlines:
  
  Do you speak English?; Punta Arenas mayor robbed in Argentina; Scab in Santa Cruz province; Sheep experts in Punta Arenas Show; Magallanes “piggies” keep growing; Ushuaia newspaper set on fire; Spies still on the job, claims La Tercera.

• Monday, March 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Commonwealth Day address by the Primer Minister.

  Commonwealth Day is our opportunity to celebrate what brings us together and to take pride in being part of a Commonwealth of 53 member countries.

• Monday, March 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Death of Falklands Champion and Legislator Adrian Monk, OBE.

  Falkland Islanders are saddened by the death of one of their great champions in their sovereignty dispute with Argentina ? Adrian Monk, OBE. He has died aged 85, in Wales, where he and his wife, Norah, had run a smallholding in retirement.

• Friday, March 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Champion Maurice's hat trick; Ross Road clearway will remain; Proposal for flight talks rejected?;
  Inquest adjourned; Cruise visits this week.

• Friday, March 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Malvinas”, Kirchner's turf in spite of Bielsa

  The Falkland Islands issue will depend directly from President Nestor Kirchner through a “Malvinas Institute” of imminent creation, according to the Buenos Aires daily Ambito Financiero (AF).

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands fisheries income estimate down

  Falkland Islands Fisheries income is likely to be 3 million pounds short of the predicted 24 million pounds for the 2003/2004 budget the Standing Finance Committee was informed last week in Stanley.

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands, antipersonnel mines and sea patrols

  The brief but rather neutral reference to the “Islas Malvinas” in Mr. Nestor Kirchner's opening address to the incoming Legislature of the Argentine Congress, (four lines out of 24 pages), is understandable because the government is facing other crucial developments such as the current struggle with the IMF and international creditors, reported reliable political sources in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  UK flights proposal “does not satisfy Argentina”

  The British counter proposal for the resumption of the suspended charter flights between the continent and the Falkland Islands “does not satisfy” Argentina, Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa reported to Congress.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Desire Petroleum PLS

  Interim report on the 3D-seismic programme in the North Falkland Basin

• Monday, March 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Assembling of the Argentine Memorial begins today.

  Even from a distance the windswept hill where the Argentine Military Cemetery stands - on the still disputed Falkland Islands - looked different. Gone is the main cross and the wooden fence at the back of this enclosed graveyard laid out like an inverted letter T. In its place we now find a crescent shaped trench where the Argentine War Memorial will some day stand.