Falkland Islands

• Saturday, June 22nd 2024 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands War: Maj General Julian Thompson prepared for Mission Impossible in four days

  

  After returning from Denmark and heading to bed, Major General Julian Thompson OBE, commanding 3 Commando Brigade, received a phone call.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2024 - 07:07 UTC

  Job Opportunities: Chief Executive - Falkland Islands Government

  

  Starting salary up to £142.7k gross per annum, (with more for exceptional candidates). Whether providing strategic advice and policy guidance to Members of the Legislative Assembly, offering advice and support to the Governor, or leading and directing the Falkland Islands Government Public Service, this is a multi-faceted role offering stretch and challenge to an accomplished leader used to working effectively at the political interface and with a broad and diverse range of stakeholders.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2024 - 06:20 UTC

  Falklands Rockhopper Exploration collects first tranche of Ombrina Mare payment

  

  Oil company Rockhopper Exploration PLC, with key interests in the Falkland Islands, on Friday, announced it had received the first tranche payment in relation to the monetization of its Ombrina Mare arbitration award, according to a report from Alliance News.

• Friday, June 21st 2024 - 10:21 UTC

  Falklands looks into organizing the peak inflow of visitors next cruise season

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board Executive Director Steph Middleton outlined the Tourist Board’s attendance at Seatrade Global in Miami, WTM Latin America in Sao Paulo and IAATO in Maryland this year at the recent Board meeting.

• Friday, June 21st 2024 - 09:06 UTC

  Safeguarding Oceans - theme for Albatross Day

  

  By Veronica Iriarte - On Wednesday we celebraed our fifth World Albatross Day! The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) announced “Marine Protected Areas – Safeguarding our Oceans” as the theme for this year’s World Albatross Day.

• Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 18:21 UTC

  Falklands Representative attends services for Liberation Day

  

  Last week, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, Richard Hyslop, visited St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and attended the annual Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving at the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College in order to mark Liberation Day.

• Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 15:55 UTC

  Falklands: Consultation to begin on Sea Lion offshore oil development, north of the Islands

  

  Following an extraordinary sitting of Executive Council on Monday 17 June, the Falkland Islands Government has agreed that there will be a public consultation from Monday 24 June to Monday 5 August 2024, on the Environmental Impact Statement for the Sea Lion Field Northern Development Area, Phase 1 and 2, which has been submitted by Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Limited.

• Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 15:29 UTC

  “If you have to deny the existence of a people, your argument does not work”, Falklands reply to Mondino

  

  “If you have to deny the existence of a people to make your argument work, your argument doesn’t work,” has been the public reply of Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Teslyn Barkman to the piece of Argentina's foreign minister Diana Mondino addressed to Falkland Islanders, during this week's session of the Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, held at the United Nations, New York.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

  

  By MLA Teslyn Barkman
  
  The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  “Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

  

  A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.