Falkland Islands

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Yes, they have no bananas (in Falkland and in Bs. Aires)

  

  FOR the Falklands to be short of bananas as a result of Argentina’s bully-boy blockade and trade restrictions is understandable. For Argentina to run out of bananas you’d think would be impossible in a sub-continent which grows millions of them. But a few weeks ago, they had no bananas in Buenos Aires shops. Only the incompetent Argentines could achieve the impossible. It’s not just bananas they are slipping up on.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Anti British-Falklands incidents in south Argentina with UK flagged cargo vessel

  

  Serious incidents broke out on Thursday in the Argentine Patagonia port of Comodoro Rivadavia when a British flagged cargo vessel docked to load cement and were met with anti British-Falklands protestors.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Put the islanders first: key to the Malvinas/Falklands dispute

  

  By Robert Cox (*) - Charleston, South Carolina - The misbegotten war over the Islands that need not be named has reversed the concept that war is a continuation of politics or diplomacy by other means. The conflict continues in political and diplomatic terms in Argentina and in Britain. Lost in the clamour is the key to the solution: the interests of the native Islanders.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 09:35 UTC

  BBC documents reveal French double role during the Falklands conflict

  

  In his memoirs, former UK Defence Secretary Sir John Nott describes France as Britain's “greatest ally” during the Falklands War. However, formerly secret papers and other evidence seen by the BBC show that was not the full story. Before the war, France sold Argentina's military junta five Exocet missiles.

• Thursday, March 8th 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Morrissey performs with “hate T-shirts” and insists the Falklands are Argentine

  

  Morrissey's band performed in front of 15,000 fans in Argentina wearing “We Hate William and Kate” T-shirts, courting further controversy over his stance on the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 23:24 UTC

  EU calls on Argentina to respect international trade commitments

  

  The European Union has called on Argentina to respect international trade commitments, following on the announcement by the Minister of Industry to boycott the purchase of imports originating in the UK in an escalating row over the Falklands.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 17:25 UTC

  Argentina to demand a review of the South Atlantic fisheries agreement

  

  President Cristina Fernandez announced that Argentina will request the review of the South Atlantic fisheries agreement, because the UK and the Falklands are not abiding by the ‘protocols’ signed in the early nineties.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 17:18 UTC

  Gibraltar Port Authority attends Seatrade Cruise Convention in Miami

  

  The Gibraltar Port Authority is participating in the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention which takes place in Miami between the 12th and 15th March 2012.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 16:55 UTC

  Invasive species threaten Antarctica; climate change and visitors boom blamed

  

  Antarctic tourists and scientists may be inadvertently seeding the icy continent with invasive species, a new study says. Foreign plants such as annual bluegrass are establishing themselves on Antarctica, whose status as the coldest and driest continent had long made it one of the most pristine environments on Earth.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 03:18 UTC

  Keith Padgett, first Falklands’ government CE recruited in the Islands

  

  Keith Padgett, former Finance Secretary and acting Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands government has been confirmed in the post by the local government acting in agreement with the Islands Governor.