Falkland Islands

• 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.

• Thursday, May 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines :
  Santa Cruz conditions licence renewal ; EU loses patience and increases blue whiting TAC; China and Chile to discuss; Scientists highlight problem of by-catch; EU bans tuna and swordfish from five countries; Spain takes 20% of European Seafood Exposition; Successful breeding of freshwater shrimp.

• Thursday, May 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Overseas Territories meeting in London; Tories solid rock behind Gibraltar; U.N. decolonization seminar in Papua New Guinea; Cruise controversy: UK diplomatic protest; Gibraltar Labour deplores Macshane's remarks.

• Thursday, May 6th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Is. Team ? Press Release

  Falklands Teams preparing for it's first ever Commonwealth Young Games.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Sir Rex Hunt; British Forces Falkland Islands; HMS Sheffield;Falkland Islands Defences Forces; EOD; Tourist.

• Monday, May 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Maya V” toothfish haul nets over 2 million AUS dollars

  The sale of the illegal catch of Patagonian toothfish seized from the Uruguayan flagged longliner “Maya V” earlier this year has netted in excess of two million Australian dollars, said Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Ian Macdonald, and the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Chris Ellison.

• Monday, May 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Desire Petroleum upbeat report

  Desire Petroleum, one of several oil companies with oil exploration licence off-shore Falkland Islands, has published its preliminary results for 2003 and outlined its seismic research which took place this austral summer in the North Falkland Basin.

• Monday, May 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  St Brandan sailing for Punta Arenas

  St Brandan is to replace the Falkland Islands coastal shipping Tamar FI on May's voyage to Punta Arenas in Chile.

• Monday, May 3rd 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “General Belgrano” had orders to attack the Task Force

  The controversy over the sinking of Argentine battleship “General Belgrano” on May 2, 1982 by the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, in the single action of greatest loss of life during the short lived South Atlantic conflict, again emerged on the 22nd anniversary.