Falkland Islands

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.
Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:19 UTC
Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day remembered in Argentina with two central ceremonies

The 36th anniversary of the Falklands conflict in 1982 will be recalled in Argentina with two main events: Malvinas relatives will be received on Monday afternoon by president Mauricio Macri at his official residence in Olivos while Interior Minister Rogelio Fregerio will head the ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next to the Beagle Channel.
Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC
A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.