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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 13:54 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:58 UTC

    Falklands' return humanitarian flight: ample media coverage to the cancelling by Argentina

    Argentina alleges that the flight back from MPC to Montevideo was scheduled to bring a fishing crew, and thus the “flight ceased to be humanitarian”

    The Argentine government decision to impede a return humanitarian flight from Montevideo to Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands received ample coverage in the Uruguayan and Argentine media.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

    Falklands or Malvinas? Market-based referendum proposal

    ”Years ago, Sir Alan Walters (Mrs. Thatcher’s economic guru) and I developed a transparent market solution that bestowed voting rights upon Falklands' settlers”

    By Steve Hank (*) – On August 4, Argentina, the world’s biggest deadbeat, announced that it had reached a deal with its creditors on its US$ 65 billion worth of defaulted debt. The next day, the United Nations Decolonization Committee — the C24 — unanimously passed a resolution urging the United Kingdom and Argentina to resolve their differences over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. Or, are they the Malvinas?

  • Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 15:50 UTC

    Falkland Islands and oil companies new approach to “stranded assets”

    The discovery a decade ago of as much as 1,7 billion barrels of crude offshore the Falklands anticipated the next frontier

    An article in World Oil by Laura Hurst refers to the term “stranded assets” and mentions the case of the Falkland Islands oil industry: the discovery a decade ago of as much as 1,7 billion barrels of crude offshore the British Overseas Territory, and rather than the next frontier, the project to extract energy risks being added to a list of what companies call “stranded assets” that could cost them huge sums to mothball.

  • Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

    Falklands' Conservation Zone management could be undermined by unregulated longlining

    The study was supported by Consolidated Fisheries Limited (CFL) and carried out by researchers from SAERI, FIG’s Department of Natural Resources, and the University of Colorado Boulder.

    A recent study has found that unregulated longline fishing for Patagonian Toothfish immediately outside the 200-mile Falkland Islands Outer Conservation Zone (FOCZ) is likely to be having significant impacts on deepwater seabed vulnerable marine ecosystems compared to the low impacts observed in licensed longline fisheries within Falklands' waters.

  • Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

    Falklands Day celebrated with a presentation at FIGO in London

    Representative Richard Hyslop together with lawmakers remarks in the presentation that the Falklands Day is “the day we remember the first recorded sighting of the then uninhabited Falkland Islands”

    Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592 and is commemorated on 14 August. It was once seen as the National Day of the Falklands but has largely been replaced by Liberation Day which commemorates the end of the Falklands War.

  • Friday, August 14th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

    Aberdeen scientists to address Falklands' peat lands research project

    David Muirhead and Dmitri Mauquoy, from the university’s school of geosciences, will travel to the Falklands early next year as part of the project

    Scientists from Aberdeen University will travel to the Falkland Islands as part of a £230,000 research project to help prevent peatland fires. The project will use various techniques to study how the frequency, extent and intensity of burning affects the ability of peat land environments to store carbon. The news was announced by north Scotland daily The Press and Journal.

  • Friday, August 14th 2020 - 08:02 UTC

    Falklands Sports Council has new logo and announces scholarships scheme

    The newly formed Falkland Islands National Sports Council (NSC) has revealed its new logo, designed by Tony Ellis of Tonedog Graphic Design. The front ‘wings’ represent the freedom and movement of sport and are also symbolic of a winner’s ribbon that the penguin is passing through, head raised in proud accomplishment.

  • Tuesday, August 11th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

    Ex Falklands' patrol HMS Clyde now flies the Kingdom of Bahrain flag

    HMS Clyde, now named RBNS Al Zubarah, was formally handed over to the Royal Bahraini Navy in a ceremony at Portsmouth, in the UK.

    The Kingdom of Bahrain has purchased the former UK Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Clyde (P257), the country’s defense ministry announced. HMS Clyde was the Falkland Islands patrol vessel until replaced by the recent arrival of HMS Forth.

  • Monday, August 10th 2020 - 18:03 UTC

    Falklands elected government rejects point blank Argentina's threatening and bullying tactics

    Gilbert House, seat of the democratically elected government of the Falkland Islands

    The Falkland Islands elected Government on Monday publicly expressed its disappointment with the Argentine government regarding its determined intent to escalate their sovereignty claim over the Islands and continue harassing the people of the Falklands. In response to that attitude Gilbert House, seat of the government elected by the people of the Falklands, in democratic elections, has made the following release:

  • Monday, August 10th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

    Falklands' Covid support paid out over a £1m; tourism expected to continue tied to the scheme

    The retail sector accounted for the largest share of the support payments, with 25 claims totaling £211,060.

    The Falkland Islands government, FIG, up to July 6, had paid out £1,016,570 for Covid support measures from the total approved funding of £8.99m. The figure, from a paper presented to the Executive Council does not include the wool clip purchase scheme, which is expected to total around £2.9m.