Falkland Islands

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Falklands will enjoy England's live matches from the World Cup

  

  The Falkland Islands will be able to enjoy the Football World Cup 2018 live matches of the England side. The British Forces Broadcasting Service operating from MPA has informed that Falklands' viewers will receive the best football experience possible from Russia by showing all the England matches live on the Sky News Channel.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 19:25 UTC

  New Waste Management Strategy for the Falkland Islands

  

  Today the Falkland Islands Government announced the adoption of a new Waste Management strategy for the Islands.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 14:09 UTC

  Falkland Islands Reception in London

  

  Marking another successful year, the Annual Falkland Islands Government Reception took place on Tuesday 5th June at Middle Temple, London. Islanders in Britain, their friends and supporters, politicians, and veterans of the 1982 war of liberation met in high spirits.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  OAS reiterates call for Falklands dialogue and praises Argentine constructive approach towards inhabitants of the Malvinas

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, general assembly which concluded on Tuesday in Washington with strong statements condemning Venezuela and calling for peace and understanding in Nicaragua, also included a statement on the Malvinas Islands submitted by Argentina.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  Argentine cabinet chief honors all Falklands' conflict fallen at St Paul's cathedral in London

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Marcos Peña honored all combatants fallen during the Falkland Islands conflict and laid a wreath at the crypt in London's St Paul Cathedral, which remembers the 1982 South Atlantic war.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 06:37 UTC

  Argentina identifies remains of the 92nd combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  The Argentine Human Rights Secretary announced on Monday the name of another Argentine soldier fallen during the Falklands conflict and buried at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin, taking the number of identified remains to 92.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 18:44 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government publishes Budget for 2018/19

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has set out its medium term plan for the Islands with an ambitious Budget designed to ensure that we have solid foundations for future economic, social and political development.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego insists with a representative in the SW Atlantic Fisheries sub committee

  

  Tierra del Fuego media and Clarin in Buenos Aires coincide that foreign minister Jorge Faurie has admitted the possibility for a representative from the extreme south province to attend the Argentine/UK South West Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Sub Committee meetings, which were recently re-launched at the Argentine capital.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina delists Malvinas petitioner Betts, and his shady turncoat past begins to surface

  

  Alejandro Jacobo Betts, Argentine citizen, born as Alexander Jacob Betts in the Falkland Islands, where he lived with a family until the end of the 1982 conflict, has been delisted from the Argentine delegation to this year's United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24 meeting scheduled for this month in New York.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 08:02 UTC

  Falklands' Loligo first season squid catch, the best in the last five years

  

  The Falkland Islands' total catch of the loligo squid, or Falklands' calamari, in the first season of 2018 was 43,085 tons, which compares very favorably to first-season catches over the last five years.