Falkland Islands

• Friday, October 18th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

  Avian influenza in Falklands, access restrictions at Volunteer Point, Cow Bay and Lively Island

  

  The Director of the Falklands Natural Resources Department, Dr. Andrea Clausen has given an update on avian influenza cases registered at Volunteer Point, Cow Bay and Lively Island.

• Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 23:46 UTC

  Humanitarian Project in Falkland, Red Cross begins contacts in Buenos Aires

  

  On Wednesday, October 16th, Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino received Gilles Carbonier, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to discuss the resumption of negotiations for the Third Plan of the Humanitarian Project, which is geared to the identification of Argentine combatants who fell in the Falklands during the South Atlantic conflict of 1982.

• Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

  Falklands next Chief Executive, “a bit nervous”, points to the interesting moment of the Islands' development

  

  Dr Andrea Clausen has been appointed as the next Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands Government and will step into the position in April 2025. Dr Clausen will be the first Falkland Islander and the first female to take on the Chief Executive role, and evidence of how much the Falklands have invested in their people.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  “Gibraltar, the Falklands and other overseas territories deserve MPs” from LabourList

  

  The suggestion, proposal, or idea or however you may wish to call it is not new. Still, the UK government’s recent decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, to the Republic of Mauritius has caused outrage from some and disbelief from others. Still, it has again brought to discussion if other Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands and/or Gibraltar need to have representation at Westminster.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 08:36 UTC

  Falklands will receive first Islander of a revamp funded Britten-Norman

  

  Britten-Norman, the UK’s leading utility aircraft manufacturer, has completed its second funding round, securing significant capital from Northern Ireland-based Beechlands Enterprises.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

  Falklands, Rockhopper Exploration disposes of Italian assets to focus on Sea Lion

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin (“NFB”), has announced it has put in place an insurance policy to cover the event that the Italian Republic succeeds in its attempt to have the Rockhopper Ombrina Mare Arbitration Award annulled and has also signed a share purchase agreement with Zodiac Energy Limited to exit its other Italian assets.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

  Falklands Waters, UK Hydrographic starts seabed mapping surveys in November

  

  In November, the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) will conduct seabed mapping surveys of the Falkland Islands coastal waters to support safe maritime trade and the development of a sustainable blue economy.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 23:10 UTC

  Falklands confirms case of avian influenza at Volunteer Green and Cow Bay

  

  The Government of the Falkland Islands confirmed that on Thursday 10 October 2024 swabs that were taken from dead penguins at Volunteer Point, which returned a positive result for HPAI.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 22:47 UTC

  Shackleton's original Hope Cross exhibited at the Discovery Point in Dundee

  

  Sir Ernest Shackleton, the great English polar explorer died in 1922 at the age of 47 in Grytviken, South Georgia during his fourth trip and expedition to the Antarctic continent on board the Quest. .

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Milei welcomes Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Monday welcomed former UK Primer Minister Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada, after which the South American leader announced he would travel to England for a meeting with musician Mick Jagger at a date yet to be determined. Milei had already discussed rock with another exPM - Lord David Cameron - whom he met as Foreign Secretary.