Falkland Islands

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Three companies (two UK and one Israel) involved in Falklands' oil industry, added to Argentina's sanctions list

  

  Argentina announced it has launched a sanctions process against several foreign oil companies, the UK based Chrysaor Holdings Ltd, Harbor Energy Plc, and Israel's Navitas Petroleum for involvement in hydrocarbons activities, with illegitimate Falkland Islands licenses, in the Argentine continental shelf, more precisely at the Sea Lion project in North Malvinas basin

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 07:09 UTC

  Falklands' government awards contract for improvement of Stanley airport terminal

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has informed that after a competitive tender, the contract for the construction of a new terminal entrance at Stanley Airport has been awarded to Falkland Building Services (FBS), a subsidiary of the Falkland Islands Company (FIC). Materials for the work should arrive in Stanley in early September 2021 and construction will then begin.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Search at Falklands' Teal Inlet for more possible Argentine soldiers interments

  

  Falkland Islands' Chief Police Officer Superintendent Jeff McMahon is heading an inquiry to find the remains of Argentine soldiers who are still unaccounted for and maybe in unmarked interments in the north of East Falkland at a place called Teal Inlet.

• Sunday, July 4th 2021 - 23:00 UTC

  Endurance22: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust organizes expedition to find and film Shackleton's ship sunk in Antarctica in 1915

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition – Endurance22 – to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 22:19 UTC

  Falklands English with a Uruguayan flavor, “Chay”

  

  By Yliana Rodríguez (*) – An English variety with an Uruguayan flavour Falkland Islands English has called my attention for more than a decade since my dear friend George Stewart once told me about the Spanish words used down there. I flew home to tell my Dad, who to my surprise remained unruffled at the news and went on to tell me about Uruguayan gauchos in the Falklands.

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  OBE awarded to Argentine businessman Eurnekian for his involvement in building of 1982 war cemetery

  

  In what was probably his last public appearance, British Ambassador to Buenos Aires Mark Kent Friday bestowed – on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II – the Medal of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on Argentine businessman Eduardo Eurnekian for his services to the relations between the two countries. cemetery

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Filmus insulted by a passenger in his return trip and for flying first class in American; “UN sent the tickets”

  

  Argentina's Malvinas and Antarctica secretary was rebuked and insulted in his return trip from New York in a first-class American Airlines flight. The passenger recorded the incident on his cell phone which he then twitted and immediately went viral.

• Monday, June 28th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Drones to census Falklands Albatrosses and Rockhopper penguins

  

  The implementation of drones to monitor large seabird colonies can be as effective as traditional on-the-ground methods while reducing costs, labour, and the risk of human error, a new study has found.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 22:26 UTC

  South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands to become Terrestrial Protected Area

  

  The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has unveiled plans to designate Terrestrial Protected Areas covering the entire landmass of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, some 3,800km2.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Game over: C14 resolution ignores Falklands' pleas and again calls for a bilateral dialogue Argentina/UK

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, C24, addressed on Thursday the annual Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty question, which once again concluded with an appeal to the governments of Argentina and Britain to resume dialogue with the purpose of finding, in the shortest time possible, a peaceful solution to the controversy.