Falkland Islands

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

  

  Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 07:53 UTC

  Falklands launches Plan outlining the Islands 2018/2022 growth and prosperity targets

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has published The Islands Plan 2018-2022, which sets out its ambitions for improving the prosperity, health and wealth of people across the Falklands over the next four years.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

  SGSSI Commissioner’s 12-Day Visit To South Georgia

  

  The Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE, returned on March 17th from his visit to South Georgia where he was accompanied by representatives of some of South Georgia’s key partners and stakeholders.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Falklands' veteran supports Everton Argentine player Funes Mori: “he is entitled to his opinion”

  

  A Falklands war veteran has said that Everton’s player Ramiro Funes Mori is “entitled to his opinion“ after a controversial tweet went viral. The Argentine defender posted, “Las Malvinas son argentinas” which translates as “the Falkland Islands are Argentine” on the anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands, April 2nd.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Atlas A400M replaces Hercules at Falklands' Mount Pleasant Complex

  

  The Atlas A400M arrived in the Falkland Islands last week. Having completed the 20 hour journey from the UK, A400M touched down at Mount Pleasant Complex on Tuesday afternoon, a week ago.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Falklands' Loligo squid “doing well” in first month of the fishery

  

  Twenty thousand tons of Loligo squid have been caught during the first month of the fishery, so it is “doing well,” the Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Sasha Arkhipkin confirmed to Penguin News during the last week of March.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

  

  As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 17:31 UTC

  Falklands' lawmaker concern over capital program delivery

  

  Falkland Islands' Member of Legislative Assembly Roger Spink has expressed concern about the shortfall in achieving the objectives of the capital program for 17/18.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  The central ceremony of the Malvinas war 36th anniversary is held in Ushuaia

  

  On the 36th anniversary of the beginning of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict Argentine Interior minister Rogelio Frigerio called “for intelligent ways to advance in our legitimate claim of the Malvinas Islands' sovereignty”. Frigerio was the main speaker at the central event of the 36th anniversary held this Monday in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, next to the Beagle channel.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Moscow and Falklands' war: “ironically the Soviet Union came on the side of anti communist Argentina”

  

  Sputnik, the official Russian news agency has recalled the 1982 South Atlantic conflict on the 36th anniversary, and offers an interesting interpretation of events previous to the war, the fighting itself and prospects for the future, making emphasis on the overall world scenario at the time.