Thanks to the initiative of a Stanley schoolboy, the Falklands Islands have enjoyed positive publicity in one of the United Kingdom's best-selling celebrity magazines. Ten-year- old John Didlick wrote to a television personality who featured in last year's documentary Castaway 200, Ben Fogle.
In partnership with seven major Japanese seafood companies, Fish Information & Services (FIS) has announced the pending launch of a new electronic seafood commerce system, Fish On line, that will provide buyers and sellers of seafood with a business platform for one of the largest seafood markets in the world.
The senior Foreign Office Official with major responsibility for Falklands and Antarctic Affairs for the past four years, Mr John White, has been appointed High Commissioner to Barbados in the Caribbean, and will take up his post there in August.
Falkland Islands Government has donated £5,000 towards Save the Children (UK) programme ?Providing Clean Water in El Salvador', following the earthquakes of January and February 2001 which affected approximately a quarter of the population, caused over 1,000 deaths and damaged or destroyed hospitals, health facilities, schools and many thousands of homes.