Falkland Islands

• Friday, February 6th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Volunteers rise to the Challenge; Pristine island destroyed by fire; One dead, one seriously ill after alleged fight on jigger; Crane fault delays ship unloading; Cruise activity this week.

• Thursday, February 5th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Salvage of Graf Spee range finder

  This Friday, weather permitting the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled off the coast of Uruguay at the beginning of World War II, will be revealing another of its secrets that has been resting in the muddy waters of the River Plate for decades.

• Thursday, February 5th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  DAP helicopter rescues lost tourists

  Two foreign tourists that has been missing for a month were rescued by a DAP helicopter during a routine commercial flight.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Festival Cruises arrested in Gibraltar

  A third cruise liner belonging to Festival Cruises has been arrested in Gibraltar reports The Gibraltar Chronicle“. The ”Azur” is a 33-year-old, 15,000 tonne cruise liner registered in Panama has a capacity for 720 passengers and 330 crew members.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Court martial upholds ruling

  A Chilean Army Court Martial unanimously confirmed the indictment of four servicemen from the Austral Military Region, (Magallanes) involved in the breaking in and espionage of the Argentine consulate in Punta Arenas last November 9.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  The Voice of Gibraltar Group

  In September 2001, Peter Hain came to The Rock and hang the 'Sword of Damocles' over the heads of the People of Gibraltar. By the end of that year the Brussels Process was re-launched and the concept of a 'done-deal' reared its ugly face.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Diplomacy continues on flights.

  Argentina's ban on granting air space clearance to charter flights to the Falklands was discussed last week in the public meeting.

• Monday, February 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar Breaking News

  Headlines:
  
  
  Reform is matter for “Gibraltar and Britain, only” ; Gibraltar to challenge single sky exclusion; Euro-vote Bill for June EU elections.-

• Monday, February 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Rammell scheduled in Argentina next 16

  Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Bill Rammell is scheduled to visit Argentina next February 16 when he will be addressing the “whole agenda of bilateral issues”.

• Friday, January 30th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Next of kin plan 800 visitors for Memorial ceremony

  Relatives of the Argentine servicemen killed during the Falkland Islands conflict are expecting 700 to 800 people to be present next March at the inauguration of the Memorial to be built in the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to a report in the Argentine press.