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Montevideo, August 26th 2026 - 00:50 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 08:55 UTC

    The Bank of England could learn from the Falklands

    Fresh fivers, tens, and twenties are being rolled out: the first new notes since 1984.

    By A. S. H. Smyth, (*)

  • Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 08:10 UTC

    Trump in the Falklands

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pledged to President Trump that Europe will buy additional US energy and invest UD$600 billion in the US

    By Barry Eichengreen (*) - US President Donald Trump’s trade war resembles nothing so much as UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Falklands War in 1982: one side deploys massive force, and the other withdraws with its tail between its legs.

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 20:17 UTC

    Falkland Islands to host first-ever international shearing tri-nations test match

    Winners will share a prize fund of £12,000, split between shearing and wool handling categories. An official reception at Government House will mark the occasion

    The Falkland Islands will host their first international shearing and wool handling test match on 14 November 2025, featuring teams from Wales, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. The landmark event, organized by Falkland Shears in partnership with the Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC), will take place at the Falkland Islands Defence Force hall in Stanley.

  • Friday, August 15th 2025 - 21:18 UTC

    Falklands, Students celebrate A Level and Level 3 Results with 98% pass rate

    Results show 90% of students achieved grades which mean they could go on to university if they wish.

    On Thursday, 14 August, twenty-two Falkland Islands students who have been studying at schools and colleges for A levels and other Level 3 qualifications received their results. Three students received their results earlier due to studying in New Zealand and Scotland.

  • Friday, August 15th 2025 - 13:46 UTC

    King Charles message on the Falkland Islands National Day

    King Charles, back in 1999, when as Prince of Wales spent time in the Falklands and visited a rookery

    On the Falkland Islands National Day, August 14, Governor Colin Martin-Reynolds CMG, passed on a message to the Legislative Assembly on behalf of King Charles III and his wife.

  • Friday, August 15th 2025 - 13:37 UTC

    Falklands, New Principal at Infant Junior School and Camp Education

    Shelley said: “I am honoured to be appointed as Principal at IJS&CE. My time as Deputy Principal has given me the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the school’s ongoing success

    The Falkland Islands Government is pleased to announce the appointment of Shelley Short as the new Principal of the Infant Junior School and Camp Education (IJS&CE). Shelley has been IJS&CE’s Deputy Principal since August 2024 and will take up her new role at the start of the school year in September 2025, following a thorough handover with outgoing Principal, Gaynor Kilmister.

  • Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 12:01 UTC

    Falklands Day, August 14th

    Today, the 14th of August, the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly proudly marks Falklands Day and extends warm wishes to all Falkland Islanders and friends of the Falklands. This day marks the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of the then-uninhabited Islands by John Davis in 1592.

  • Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 06:40 UTC

    Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier

    Dennis Bell (left) with his fellow colleagues and the dogs that helped them to work in Antarctica. Midwinter 1959 at Admiralty Bay Base. Credit: unknown.

    The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a 25 year-old meteorologist who was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He died in a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, situated off the Antarctic Peninsula on 26 July 1959. His body was never recovered.

  • Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:53 UTC

    Falklands, Pollution Prevention and Waste Management Approved by ExCo

    MLA Peter Biggs said: “Falklands needs to improve how we manage pollution and waste and this is an important step in better protecting our air, land and water.

    The Executive Council has approved a Pollution Prevention and Waste Management Strategy for the Falkland Islands. The strategy aims to provide a clear plan to address the long-term reduction and prevention of pollution and control of waste in the Falklands, in a way that suits the unique context of the Islands.

  • Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:22 UTC

    The crushing of the unfinished BBC’s Top Gear program and its Patagonia Special

    Jeremy Clarkson and his Porsche 928, with the H982FKL plate, simple coincidence or provocation, which led to serious incidents in Patagonia

    Remember the BBC Top Gear program with Jeremy Clarkson, back in September/October 2014 when his planned tour of Argentine Patagonia and later Chile, ended with the team having to flee, given Argentine people’s animosity and which later included a diplomatic incident involving BBC?