Falkland Islands

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 17:35 UTC

  Latam: no turning back on higher air fares to Punta Arenas, “ample competition”

  

  Chile's National Economic Prosecution threw out a request to begin an investigation into the hike of air travel to Punta Arenas, decided by Latam Airlines. “It is highly unlikely to verify a conduct of excessive prices taking into account the many verification standards of such an incompetitiveness crime”, points out the resolution.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 11:07 UTC

  Reception at Speaker's House for Falklands representation to Coronation

  

  The Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Alison Blake CMG, together with MLA Teslyn Barkman, representative of the Falklands Legislative Assembly and during this year president of the Council of UK Overseas Territories Association, and other members of the Islands participating of the Coronation of King Charles III attended a reception offered by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Falklands preparing farewell to the last FPV Protegat replaced by FPV Lilibet

  

  The Falkland Islands Government is preparing a very fond farewell to FPV Protegat, her crew and all at Galfishing Ltd following the completion of their contract to provide the fishery patrol vessel for the Falkland Islands. Precisely this month the state of the art FPV Lilibet, after a long trip from Vietnam, where she was built, has taken over the patrolling tasks in the Islands EEZ.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Stanley's Bennett’s Paddock: Explosive Ordnance Adviser works completed

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has announced that the works at Bennett’s Paddock by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Adviser, Guy Marot OBE and the team have now been completed.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands Government agrees to contract extension for the supply of Management Services at FIPASS

  

  Following the meeting of Executive Council on Tuesday 25 April it was agreed to extend the contract between the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and Atlink for the management services to FIPASS until February 2028.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 08:41 UTC

  Falklands Licensing of Communications Services: Consultation Paper extended to 19 May

  

  On 27 March 2023, a consultation paper was published, proposing some changes to the communications licensing regime in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, May 4th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Petro critical of Western powers and NATO during speech in Madrid

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro was welcomed with honors in Madrid by King Felipe VI and jeered at by Vox opposition lawmakers who left the Spanish Congress when the South American leader was to deliver his message. The South American head of state also denounced the United Kingdom's “invasion” of the Falkland Islands, and those of the United States in Santo Domingo, Grenada, and Panama.

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  South Atlantic Fisheries Enforcement with the Falkland Islands Maritime Authority

  

  Without effective enforcement at sea, impunity and associated unlawful activities in the waters around the Falkland Islands threaten not just wider ocean conservation but the responsible management and value of the natural resources.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  FIDF members rehearsing in London, next to Commonwealth and UK soldiers for the Coronation

  

  Members of the Falkland Islands Defense Force especially invited to participate in the coming Coronation of King Charles III are already in London and have been training daily alongside Commonwealth and UK soldiers.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Schools in Mar del Plata to be named after 1982 war fallen

  

  Public schools and kindergartens in the Argentine beach resort and port of Mar del Plata will be named after local combatants fallen in the 1982 Malvinas War, it was announced Monday. The initiative was approved unanimously by the City Council.