Falkland Islands

• Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Pta. Arenas

  Headlines: Insecurity; Redundancies in Punta Arenas port; Abattoir sale controversy.

• Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News

  Headlines: Salmon industry designs new commercial strategy; Tory campaigns for “Save Britain's Fish”

• Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Sir Christopher “Each country decides”

  British Ambassador Sir Robin Christopher in Buenos Aires said that “each country decides whether to support or not to support the war”, but “this in no way will affect relations”.

• Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines: New Antarctic species discovered; Asmar to build hi-tech oceanic fishing boat; Increase in fuel price threatens fishing industry; Uruguayan-Argentine maritime commission lacks funds. Cartographic updating

• Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: War in the Middle East; New management and record catches for CFL; Good news for budget; Wave injures fishermen; New FIDC manager.

• Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Actualización Penguin News

  Titulares: Guerra en Medio Oriente; Nuevo gerente y capturas récord en CFL; Buenas noticias para el presupuesto; Ola hiere a pescadores; Nuevo Gerente
  en la Corporación.

• Tuesday, March 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Families Commission make whistle-stop visit to Falkland Islands.

  A group of nine people representing the Argentine Families Commission, the architects responsible for designing the Darwin Memorial and the businessmen who will be funding the project today visited the Falkland Islands for a whistle-stop series of meetings with the local authorities and the construction firm working on this project.

• Monday, March 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Sinking of Belgrano remains controversial 21 years on

  Twenty one years after two torpedoes fired by a British submarine sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano the matter appears to be as polemical now as it was at the time, that is, judging by the different arguments put forward at a press conference held to wrap up a National Geographic Channel expedition to locate the site of the sunken warship.

• Sunday, March 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Belgrano expedition returns empty handed

  The National Geographic expedition that expected to film the Argentine cruiser ARA Belgrano resting in the South-West Atlantic Ocean bed since it was torpedoed in 1982 by the British returned last Saturday to Ushuaia empty handed.

• Saturday, March 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Imaginative Falklands biography project Lives marching through five centuries

  A remarkably ambitious project to create a comprehensive Dictionary of Falklands Biography (DFB), telling the life story of everyone of significance or interest connected with the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, has been officially launched by former Falkland Islands Governor, David Tatham.
  He has appealed to anyone who can contribute ideas or information to contact him.