Falkland Islands

• Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 07:58 UTC

  Falklands firefighters invitation, “Come down this Saturday”

  

  Falklands Fire and Rescue Service is having its day with a 'Have a Go' this Saturday, October 12th: it starts at 1000 and ends at 1400 at the Fire station.

• Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands, Update on avian influenza

  

  Since Monday 1 July 2024, three suspect birds/animals have been reported, 2 sets of swabs have been taken. One set returned positive results and 1 set of negative results. There are 3 sets of swabs pending.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

  Falklands: Sapper Hill Television and Radio Services Outages

  

  Falklands residents of Stanley and Camp are advised that owing to annual power supply work, BFBS will lose power to their transmitter site behind the West Store at MPC from 8.30 am on Thursday 10 October, until 2 pm on the same day.

• Monday, October 7th 2024 - 15:09 UTC

  New Chair for South Georgia Association

  

  The Committee of the South Georgia Association has appointed Mrs Philippa Foster Back CBE to be its new Chairman in succession to Professor David Drewry, who is retiring.

• Monday, October 7th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

  Falklands MPA toured by MoD Director of Overseas Bases

  

  During a five-day visit, the UK Ministry of Defense Director Overseas Bases, Dr Sam Griffiths, toured the force elements deployed in the BFSAI (British Forces South Atlantic Islands) area of operations and gained an insight to the joint force operation at the Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC.

• Monday, October 7th 2024 - 09:12 UTC

  UK ambassador to Paraguay visits Falklands, meets Governor and MLAs

  

  Falkland Islands received the visit of the current British ambassador to Paraguay. During his brief visit, Ambassador Ramin Navai, met with the Governor of the Falklands, Alison Blake CMG, and also with members of the Legislative Assembly.

• Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 20:46 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar confident in UK's commitment to self determination and peoples wishes

  

  The recent deal between UK and the Republic of Mauritius on sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago, and the future of their people, has triggered the aspirations of nationalist groups in Spain and mainly in Argentina, claiming sovereignty over Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Falklands: Defense contract for runway repairs at Mount Pleasant Complex

  

  The Defense Infrastructure Organization (DIO) has awarded a contract to Mitie to carry out runway repairs at Mount Pleasant Complex, the RAF airfield in the Falkland Islands. The work will be undertaken by Dyer and Butler, who also completed the resurfacing of the site’s Alpha Loop taxiway earlier this year.

• Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

  Falklands Appoints Cambridge Management as Telecommunications Consultants

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has announced that it has appointed Cambridge Management Consulting (Cambridge MC) as telecommunications consultants. The appointment comes following an international tender process that received multiple bids.

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Mondino hails UK-Mauritius understanding on Chagos

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino celebrated Thursday's announcement regarding the imminent handover of the British Indian Ocean Territory of Chagos to Mauritius after a dispute of nearly six decades and hinted that a similar path should be followed to ”recover the Malvinas (Falkland).”