Falkland Islands

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 21:46 UTC

  The Times torpedo against preferred bidder for Falklands FIPASS

  

  On Wednesday, Harland & Wolff Group Holdings PLC, the preferred bidder status for the Falkland Islands Port Replacement Project, moved to reassure investors as it responded to what it considers to be a “misleading and inaccurate article published in The Times”, as reported by Alliance News.

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

  Gibraltar's European future might impact Falklands' status

  

  The future of Gibraltar and Northern Ireland after Brexit concerning Europe will be discussed Thursday at a meeting in Brussels in which the British Foreign Minister, Lord David Cameron, his Spanish colleague, José Manuel Albares, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, will participate.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Falklands, Anti-stigma campaign on Mental Health supported by FIG and UK

  

  This Mental Health Awareness week Monday 13 – Sunday 19 May 2024 the KEMH Public Health Unit are launching a second survey focusing on developing an anti-stigma campaign for the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 09:44 UTC

  Falklands: Pharmacy Department's repeat prescriptions delays

  

  The Falkland Islands Pharmacy Department would like to remind the public of the process to receive a repeat prescription while the Department is temporarily short-staff, as there could be a delay in the timing for collections of orders.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands war: “The secret pact between Chile and the United Kingdom”, ex-head of Argentine Army

  

  A former commander in chief of the Argentine Army, 2003 to 2011, and Malvinas Veteran, Martín Balza in a recent column in the Buenos Aires daily Perfil, wrote a column exposing what he described as 'a secret pact between Chile and UK', to help avoid the defeat of the British Task Force in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict with Argentina.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands: “Our relation with Argentina is cyclical, one step forward and two back”

  

  Argentine president Javier Milei has shocked his country's public opinion admitting that the Falkland Islands are still British, but he has not dropped the sovereignty claim and has vowed to recover them, by diplomatic means, in “a long-term process.”

• Tuesday, May 7th 2024 - 10:26 UTC

  Bird Flu in the Falklands: 23/24 season experience and planning for 24/25

  

  On Thursday 2 May the Wildlife Disease Response Group, which includes representatives from Falkland Islands Government, Falklands Conservation, Falkland Islands Tourist Board, Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, UK Ministry of Defense and other relevant stakeholders, met to discuss the 23/24 summer season specifically about the HPAI situation in the Falklands and the response to it.

• Monday, May 6th 2024 - 23:28 UTC

  Milei: Malvinas not a priority

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei insisted on praising former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and acknowledged that the Falkland Islands were rightfully to remain under British rule.

• Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  The Inkerman Company leaves Falklands with spectacular live fire capability demonstration

  

  This week the latest Falkland Islands Roulement Infantry Company (FIRIC), The Inkerman Company, left the Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC, headquarters of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI. They ended their deployment with a fairly spectacular live fire capability demonstration centered around a light role infantry platoon doing a conventional advance to contact in front of almost 40 guests from all corners of BFSAI.

• Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  South Georgia after an Operational Manager with understanding on tourism and maritime affairs

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands’ (GSGSSI) are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the Government team based in Stanley, Falkland Islands from August 2024. They will oversee the full range of operational work in this diverse and exciting UK Overseas Territory.