Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:20 UTC

  St Helena airport to open February 2016; on line survey to assess travel potential

  

  As from 2016 the British Overseas Territory of St Helena in the mid Atlantic will have regular flight connections when the island’s first airport opens which opens a magnificent opportunity for promoting tourism and for Saints living overseas to visit their homeland.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:18 UTC

  “The Malvinas are Argentine, but also Latinamerican” says President Correa

  

  “The Malvinas Islands are not only Argentine, they are Latinamerica”, said Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa who claimed it was time to put an end to the ‘colonial situation’ of the disputed Islands in the South Atlantic and blasted the Organization of American States, OAS for dragging its feet on this and other crucial issues for the continent.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 07:11 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute expert named Argentine ambassador in Dublin

  

  An expert in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute and professional diplomat has been accepted as the new Argentine ambassador in Ireland. Silvia Maria Merega has held important posts at the Organization of American States in Washington, before the European Union and at the Argentine embassy in the US.

• Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker will attend C24 regional seminar in Ecuador

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker Mike Summers will attend next week the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the Special Committee on Decolonization which is to be held in Quito, Ecuador in anticipation of the main C24 annual meeting in New York.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 02:19 UTC

  Falkland Islands wish for normal neighborly relations with all South American neighbors

  

  By MLA Jan Cheek - I was in The Hague in April on the last stop of my four capital trip planned to spread information about our decisive referendum. After London, a colleague and I visited Brussels before heading off to separate destinations. I visited Dublin and then returned to London to attend the funeral of Baroness Thatcher.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 23:42 UTC

  Falklands and other BOT should be given a seat in the Commons, says MEP Farage

  

  The Falkland Islands, Gibraltar and Britain’s other Overseas Territories should be given a seat in the Commons, UK Independent Party MEP Nigel Farage said on Tuesday. The UKIP leader claims their voices are dangerously ‘muted’ in Britain and they should be allowed to elect their own ‘MP for the Territories’, following on the French experience.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands: it’s a three-side debate; Argentina must recognize Islanders right to decide their future

  

  UK conditioned a possible re-launching of agreements on hydrocarbons and fisheries in the South Atlantic to Argentina accepting ‘there will be no sovereignty negotiations’ regarding the Malvinas Islands and called for the Argentine government to respect the wishes of the Falkland Islanders.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: optimism about identification of the unknown Argentine soldiers

  

  An Argentine delegation involved in human rights that in early May visited the Falkland Islands is optimistic about the possibility of advancing in the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried as unknown in unmarked graves at the Darwin cemetery.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Falklands MPA has the minimum force necessary to prevent a repeat of 1982 invasion

  

  The UK military base in the Falkland Islands has the “minimum necessary force to prevent a repeat of the illegal invasion such as that of 1982” committed by Argentina said Foreign Office Minister of State for Latinamerican affairs Hugo Swire during an interview with the Argentine news agency, Diarios y Noticias. (*)

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 00:35 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ tourism industry keeps growing despite a drop in cruise visitors

  

  The Falkland Islands International Tourism Statistics Report released to the public this week records that 2012 was the second highest year on record in terms of overnight visitors travelling for leisure. There were 7,791 overnight tourists (as opposed to day trip cruise tourists) arrivals in the Falkland Islands in 2012, of which 1,937 could be classed as leisure visitors. Overall, tourist arrivals have grown at an average annual rate of 7% per annum over the period 2000-2012.