Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, November 28th 2017 - 07:01 UTC

  Falklands and other BOTs leaders scheduled to meet with PM Theresa May

  

  Leaders from eleven British Overseas Territories, BTO, including the Falkland Islands will be meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday as part of the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Committee, which begins in London, according to a release from 10 Downing Street.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2017 - 06:43 UTC

  Falklands launches consultation round to update rural development strategy

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers will be meeting starting in December to scope the community’s priorities under the Rural Development Strategy (RDS), as the current Action Plan ends and a new 3-year phase begins.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:28 UTC

  Falklands: next month Argentine families will know results of DNA tests at Darwin cemetery

  

  The humanitarian mission to identify the Argentine unknown soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery is reaching its end, and many families will finally know, after 35 years, where the remains of their loved ones rest, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  Falklands receives port of Vigo experts to address port potential and development

  

  A delegation of two technicians from the Spanish Port of Vigo are visiting the Falkland Islands with the aim of offering their informed opinions on potential port development. The Falklands has a close business relationships with the port as a result of long term joint business ventures with Spanish fishing companies, and the new Falklands longliner CFL Hunter was built there.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  “Silver Cloud” cancels Antarctica cruise and Falklands call following engine failure

  

  The failure of a fuel pump and engine left the “Silver Cloud” adrift as it headed toward Antarctica on November 20, 2017. Power was reportedly restored to the ship in about an hour, permitting the cruise vessel to return to Puerto Madryn in the South Atlantic for repairs.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  Falklands' newly elected Legislative Assembly members receive parliamentary training

  

  A delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, CPA, is currently visiting the Falkland Islands to provide Parliamentary training to the newly elected Legislative Assembly as part of a joint program agreed ahead of the election.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2017 - 17:06 UTC

  RAF arrives in Comodoro Rivadavia to join the submarine rescue effort

  

  British and Spanish planes landed on Wednesday in Comodoro Rivadavia as part of the ongoing international effort to try to locate and rescue the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan which has now been missing for a week, and is in the “critical situation”, according to the official report from the Argentine navy.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2017 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands' Concordia Bay Ferry service rescheduled due to maintenance repairs

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and Workboat Service Ltd, WSL, the company which owns the ferry linking East and West Falkland, have informed that the service will be suspended for an estimated two weeks next month, because the Concordia Bay has to undergo maintenance repairs in Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Britain sends special highly skilled unit SPAG, to help with the submarine search

  

  Britain has increased efforts to help find the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in the vast stormy South Atlantic. HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol ship, is now in the search area where the submarine last made contact on Wednesday.

• Monday, November 20th 2017 - 11:19 UTC

  Ex Chilean Junta member and supporter of the UK effort during the Falklands conflict has died

  

  Fernando Matthei Chile's ex commander of the Air Force and member of the military Junta, led by Augusto Pinchet, died on Sunday at the age of 92. The former pilot, was the father of Evelyn Matthei, who run and lost against Michelle Bachelet in the 2013 presidential election and since 2016 is mayor of Providencia, one of the main districts fo the capital Santiago.