Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Change of skipper for the Royal Navy Ice Patrol

  

  After 20 months and 54,500nm, Captain Maryla Ingham RN has handed over Command of the Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE RN in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, December 8th 2023 - 12:06 UTC

  Friday, public holiday in Falklands; anniversary of the great naval battle 8 December 1914

  

  Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands elected government has announced the following program for Friday 8 December 2023 to commemorate the victory of the Naval engagements of 8th December 1914 in the South Atlantic.

• Friday, December 8th 2023 - 09:03 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego Governor warns Milei against possible drop in Malvinas claims

  

  In a column published this week in Buenos Aires daily Clarín, Gustavo Melella, Governor of the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego which technically includes the South Atlantic Islands over which the South American country claims sovereignty, stressed that the future Libertarian administration of Javier Milei should not enact a U-turn in the state policies on that particular matter.

• Thursday, December 7th 2023 - 13:53 UTC

  Case of Malvinas conscripts tortured by officers admitted by International Human Rights Court

  

  A light of hope for the many Malvinas Veterans who for years have litigated in Argentine courts to have their own officers condemned for having abused, tortured, and committed all sorts of human rights violations against many of the green conscripts sent to fight a war in the Falkland Islands, four decades ago.

• Thursday, December 7th 2023 - 13:02 UTC

  Falklands announce new Director of Emergency Services and Island Security

  

  The Falkland Islands Government is pleased to announce the appointment of Justin McPhee as the new Director of Emergency Services and Island Security, who will take up the position in April 2024.

• Thursday, December 7th 2023 - 05:07 UTC

  Improved TV channel service for Falklands audience

  

  The British Forces Broadcasting Service and the Falkland Islands Government would like to inform the public that from Monday 11 December 2023 they will be replacing the BFBS Extra channel with ‘Channel 5’ on all Falklands services for the civilian audience. This new addition of Channel 5 offers a diverse range of programming.

• Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Falklands will proceed with Phase Three of Sand Bay Wind Farm

  

  Following approval from the Executive Council on Monday 27 November, the Falkland Islands Government will be able to proceed with “in principle approval” for Phase Three of the Sand Bay Wind Farm.

• Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 11:38 UTC

  Foreign office minister Rutley in Falklands, “Islanders elected to belong to the British Family”

  

  David Rutley, Foreign Office Minister for the Americas, Caribbean and Overseas Territories, is currently in the Falkland Islands where he arrived on Thursday to show UK' determination in upholding the right of self determination for the Islanders and their democratic decision to belong to the British Family.

• Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 08:14 UTC

  “Falklands' status as a BOT has nothing to do with imperial gestures, but the wishes of its population”

  

  The Falkland Islands’ status as a British overseas territory has nothing to do with imperial gestures, and everything to do with the wishes of the population, writes Dr. Nigel Haywood, in response to the article by Simon Jenkins, published in The Guardian and MercoPress a week ago.

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  MLA Barkman: “The UK government stood behind our freedom and our right to decide our own future”

  

  This week, Falklands' lawmaker MLA Teslyn Barkman was interviewed by Britain News Channel, GBC about her personal experiences in the aftermath of the 1982 war with Argentina, underlining how the UK government “stood behind us, stood behind our freedom...and for our human rights to decide our own future”.