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Montevideo, December 22nd 2025 - 05:30 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

    House of Commons Speaker will attend Goose Green Liberation service Sunday

    Sir Hoyle congratulated the Falklands for securing Stanley city status, but would like to take back home photos of signs identifying Stanley as a city

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons, currently on a visit to the Falkland Islands announced he will attend Sunday's Goose Green Liberation commemoration, called on the Falklands Legislative to take advantage of his chairmanship to promote initiatives for the benefit of the Islands, and underlined that Islanders can only decide Islanders' self-determination and future.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    South Georgia coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth

    The coin depicts a ribbon representing the scroll in the center with trumpets of the Royal Heralds at each side

    Issued on behalf of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands government, Pobjoy Mint has released a third coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The coin has been produced in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish and Proof Sterling Silver.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    US has more civilian guns than people: 120,5 for every 100 Americans

    United States is one of the only three countries where its citizens have a constitutional right to carry or have a gun

    United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people, according to the Swiss base Small Arms Survey (SAS), and is also the country where at least one mass shooting takes place every year, as has tragically happened in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed by some mentally ill teenager.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    The Falklands Conflict – Then and Now

    The book is a reminder of the “Forgotten Falklands” as “Help for Heroes” called them in their poll indicating that most people in the UK care little about the conflict

    By Harold Briley for MercoPress (London) – The 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict is being commemorated all year with events in the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom, and Argentina as MercoPress has reported.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

    Falklands war: Plymouth and Liverpool remember UK merchant navy sailors killed

    Deputy Lord Mayor of Plymouth Chris Penberthy said the commemoration was “a really important day... to specifically remember the civilians who [supported] the task force” (Pic BBC)

    The city of Plymouth held a ceremony to remember British Merchant Navy sailors killed in the Falklands War and other conflicts. Wreaths were laid during the gathering at the Merchant Navy Monument on the city's Hoe seafront.

  • Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

    Judge Simmons loves the Falklands; has the largest judicial jurisdiction in the world

    “For many years, I have wanted to visit the Falklands but have never had the opportunity. When this vacancy arose, I jumped at the opportunity”

    “I have always had an interest in the Falkland Islands ever since, as a schoolboy in London in 1982, I watched the Task Force set sail. While the conflict in the Falklands was short, it had a huge impact on the people of the Falkland Islands and their relationship with Argentina,” said Judge Malcolm Simmons, senior judge and Coroner of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, and the British Antarctic Territory.

  • Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

    Carmona makes UN C24 round before the coming Falklands/Malvinas debate in June

    The Argentine official also visited Ambassador Keisha McGuire, current president of C24

    In anticipation of the coming annual meeting of United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization or C24, Argentina's Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, Guillermo Carmona was at UN headquarters for a couple of days with the “purpose of consolidating supports”, indicated Argentine pro government media.

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

    New Darwin Plus Initiative funding for Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve

    Threatened species will benefit from funding to tackle invasive species and strengthen climate change mitigation.

    Threatened species across the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are set to benefit from £6.4 million in government funding announced on Monday 23 May. Green turtles and the West Indian whistling duck are just some of the species that will be boosted by a share of the Darwin Plus Initiative. Likewise Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve and Peatlands.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine officials question city status awarded to Stanley, Falklands capital

    Santiago Cafiero said the “decision has no effect but confirms UK does not respect international law”, insisting that Malvinas is “Argentine territory”

    Argentine Foreign Minister and the head of the Malvinas, South Atlantic Islands and Antarctica Office strongly questioned the Queen's decision to award city status to the capital of the Falkland Islands.

  • Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    Endurance Conquered: A conversation with Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration of the Endurance22 project

    Director of Exploration Mensun Bound (Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust).

    By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.