Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  FIDC support to Falklands' economy

  The multiple involvement of the Falkland Islands Development Corporation FIDC in providing a key role assisting and advising the Islands' businesses was highlighted in a recent official report made public in Stanley.

• Thursday, May 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Madrid insists with Gibraltar joint sovereignty

  In an interview with Madrid ABC newspaper, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos said that in his May 20 meeting with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in London he will pursue the fundamental idea of recovering the Gibraltar dialogue process under the Brussels process.

• Thursday, May 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Battle of Trafalgar 200th commemoration

  The Royal Navy announced plans to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

• Wednesday, May 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Search for gold and diamonds in Falklands intensifies.

  An airborne survey which will determine just how vast the quantities of gold and other precious minerals are in the Falklands is nearing completion.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands famous Hotel for sale.

  The Upland Goose hotel, which accommodated senior Argentine Military officers in 1982, and then welcomed British journalists who accompanied Mrs Thatcher's Task Force which liberated the Islands, is on the market.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Ships return from South Atlantic.

  Two Royal Navy ships returned to Portsmouth within hours of each other after long deployments to the South Atlantic.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas veterans planning to charter a ship.

  Argentine Malvinas veterans are thinking of chartering a vessel to travel to the Falkland Islands for the inauguration of the recently finished Memorial in Darwin, “if the Islanders won't allow us to charter a flight”, reports Clarín from Buenos Aires.

• Monday, May 10th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Preparing for the next budget.

  Provision of additional funds and proposals to the put forward to the forthcoming budget were approved by the Falkland Islands Standing Finance Committee in its April 30 meeting. The additional funds include £19,500 for a new edition of laws and £150,000 for medical treatment overseas.

• Saturday, May 8th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' fishing stand attracts record numbers.

  FALKLANDS fishing companies are this week showcasing the ?new look' Falkland Islands Exhibition Stand at the Seafood Expo in Brussels, Belgium.

• Friday, May 7th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Experts worried by ?tampered' explosives; Visiting Magistrate for the Falklands?; We're going to the Games.
  News in brief: Pampuro describes military build up; BFFI becomes BFSAI.