Falkland Islands

• 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.

• Monday, March 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Minister Bill Rammell denied any agreement on airlinks between the Falkland Is. and Argentina.

  The following statement was made by Minister Bill Rammell to the UK Parliament today.

• Saturday, February 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Darwin's “Beagle” found off Essex

  Charles Darwin vessel “Beagle” with which the British expeditionary explored much of South America helping him to draft his masterpiece about the evolution of species was found off the coast of Essex in the south of England.

• Saturday, February 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Present Argentine Government resembles Galtieri's dictatorship of 1982, says Councillor.

  Members of the Falkland's Legislative Council have again roundly condemned, what they term, ' Argentina's current bullying and threatening' tactics.