Falkland Islands

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 00:18 UTC

  Falklands will attend celebration of Gibraltar National Day next week

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Ian Hansen together with political leaders of another seven UK Overseas Territories will be in Gibraltar to celebrate National Day next week, 10 September.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 03:35 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker has full round of political and business contacts in Uruguay

  

  “We have come for people-to-people contacts, to talk about business opportunities and for the resumption of the close and historic links between the Falkland Islands and Uruguay”, repeated Falklands’ lawmaker Dick Sawle during one of his many presentations in Montevideo.

• Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 19:23 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker underlines that “self-governance” is achievable and points to March referendum

  

  Falkland Islands’ lawmaker Roger Edwards said that ‘self-governance or sovereignty was achievable’ and pointed out to the March 2013 referendum when an overwhelming majority of the Falklands’ people decided to support the current sovereign status.

• Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 12:28 UTC

  Falklands’ Argos considering drilling finance options and confident about new exploration round

  

  Falkland Islands Argos Resources oil and exploration company have said that they are extremely well placed to participate in the next round of exploration drilling in the Falklands and they are continuing to consider various ways to finance drilling.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 15:30 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker arrives in Uruguay to inform on business opportunities in the Islands

  

  Falkland Islands member of the Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle will be in Montevideo 2-6 September, after spending a week in Brazil involved in business, academia and informal political contacts sponsored by the Foreign Office. In Uruguay according to the official release MLA Sawle will inform about business opportunities with the Falklands and to strengthen the historical ties with Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 01:39 UTC

  Falklands’ Argentina banned oil companies linked to YPF partner Chevron

  

  An Argentine lawmaker claims that the US oil corporation Chevron which is investing heavily in developing shale resources in Neuquen with YPF is a partner of Oil Spill Response Limited that is also involved with the oil companies operating in the South Atlantic in Argentine waters but licensed by the Falkland Islands government.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 01:02 UTC

  Zoe Davies wins British Ecology Society photo competition

  

  The British Ecology Society has named the winners of its annual photography competition.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 00:44 UTC

  Falklands’ first oil delayed as cost alternatives are considered

  

  Premier Oil exploring for oil in the Falkland Islands said the company is studying cost alternatives to its drilling operations and crude extracting sub-sea architecture for the development of the Sea Lion project, which could delay the original chronogram for first oil.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 23:30 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict erupts as example for current Japan/China clash over disputed islands

  

  Japan’s outspoken Finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said that the Japanese government needs to make it clear that they intend to defend the Senkaku Islands from whatever invading force. This is to avoid what happened to the Falkland Islands when Argentine troops triggered a war with British forces by landing on the disputed islands in 1982.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 08:08 UTC

  HMS Argyll completes intense period of counter-narcotics operations in eastern Pacific

  

  The Royal Navy HMS Argyll on the last weeks of its South Atlantic deployment and on route back to Davenport completed an intense period of counter-narcotics operations in the eastern Pacific Ocean.