Falkland Islands

• Saturday, June 14th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Royal Honour for FIGO Head Sukey Cameron.

  The work of the Falklands Government Representative in London, Sukey Cameron, has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours. She has been awarded an MBE - a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for, as the citation says, “public service to the Falkland Islands”.

• Friday, June 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines: Falklands wishes Argentina well in restoring economy; Vital link continues; Injured man rescued; GF v FIG; Claudette receives MBE from the Queen.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Antartic search for Shackleton's ship

  Two rival expeditions are planning to launch a search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, which was trapped by the ice and sank somewhere in the Weddell Sea during the explorer's abortive 1914 attempt to be the first to cross Antarctica.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair Iraq Inquiry unlike Falkland's example

  The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has come in for criticism for failing to follow Margaret Thatcher's example after the Falklands War agree by his refusal to set up an independent committee to inquire into his government's conduct of the war against Iraq.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS supports Argentina's Falklands claim.

  The Organization of American States, OAS, 33rd. General Assembly meeting in Santiago de Chile approved by acclamation the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and United Kingdom in order to find as soon as possible a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  “Let us live as neighbours” plea to Argentina.

  The Falkland Islands Government have wished well to Argentina's new President, Mr Nestor Kirchner, in restoring his country's economy and expressed the hope there can be a new era of co-operation based on the Falkland Islanders' fundamental right to self-determination, their wish to remain British, and dropping of Argentina's sovereignty claim.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  MV Tamar says goodbye to Punta Arenas.

  MV Tamar concluded this week an uninterrupted cycle of ten years of regular trips between Punta Arenas and the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News

  Headlines: Argentina increases hake quota to 300,000 tonnes; The business sector welcomed the increase in the hake TAC; Index on the health of world's oceans released; Satellite control, top priority for Santa Cruz; Chilean industry fears changes in fisheries law; Multinational salmon farms to quit Scotland for Chile?; Ready for the best World Fishing Exhibition.

• Monday, June 9th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Pta. Arenas

  Headlines:
  Booming Torres del Paine; Outbreak of respiratory infections; Farmers manage postponement of abattoir sale; Lan Chile's fares to be reviewed;

• Monday, June 9th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Actualización Penguin News

  Titulares: £ 1,321 para los niños de Irak; Muelle de visitantes: ¿zona de seguridad?; Fugaz visita de la “Primera Dama” de las Falklands; Summers en ONU enfatizará en la auto determinación; ¿Argentina atractiva?; “A embolsar los picos”.