Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Refit HMS Forth back on duty as Falklands patrol vessel

  

  Falklands' patrol vessel HMS Forth, P222 has arrived back in the Islands to resume her duties as a guard ship following a refit and maintenance operation in Gibraltar.

• Sunday, November 26th 2023 - 23:25 UTC

  Peruvian pilots who helped Argentina in 1982 decorated

  

  During a ceremony at the Argentine Embassy in Lima last week, a group of retired Peruvian Air Force (FAP) pilots were awarded the Argentine Air Force's (FAA) Order of Heroes of the Malvinas, in the grade of “Malvinas Medal for Contribution to the War Effort” in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  FIH Group expects strong rebound from Falklands construction and tourist season

  

  Falkland Holdings Group PLC on Friday said pretax profit fell steeply in its latest half year, but that revenue increased 17%, and expects a strong rebound of the Falkland Islands construction and the start of the South Atlantic tourist season, Alliance News reported.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Falklands not mentioned during phone call between Milei and Cameron

  

  Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei held a telephone conversation Wednesday with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, during which topics such as former Conservative Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, and the Rolling Stones were reviewed with not a word on the Falklands/Malvinas issue, it was reported.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 23:43 UTC

  Falklands' Johnny Rook cognitive abilities break all records

  

  A team of comparative cognition researchers at the Messerli Research Institute from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, working with a colleague from Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, in Argentina, has found that a type of falcon can perform as well as Goffin's cockatoos (parrots) in solving puzzles to gain a food reward, a remarkable sign of avian intelligence.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:15 UTC

  Falklands lawmaker reaffirms self determination and questions Argentina's claim

  

  Falkland Islands elected member of the Legislative Assembly, Mark Pollard speaking with the UK media insisted on the Islands' people right to self determination and even questioned that the Falklands ever belonged to Argentina.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:05 UTC

  UK Minister of Defense, “Falklands are British, that is nonnegotiable and undeniable”

  

  “The Falkland Islands are British, that is nonnegotiable and undeniable” emphasized UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, adding that “99,8% of Islanders voted in 2013 to remain British and we will always defend their right to self-determination and UK's sovereignty”.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentina's next FM holds talks with Uruguayan ambassador in BA

  

  Economist Diana Mondino, who has been confirmed by President-elect Javier Milei to be the next Foreign Minister of Argentina, met in Buenos Aires Monday with Uruguayan Ambassador Carlos Enciso to discuss the “macroeconomic conditions” affecting ties between the two countries.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  PM Sunak, Falklands sovereignty dispute is a “resolved issue” and “will not change”

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday extended his government's congratulations to the Argentine elected president Javier Milei on his Sunday's windfall victory, but also affirmed that the dispute over the Falklands-Malvinas Islands sovereignty is a “resolved issue”.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2023 - 08:01 UTC

  Rutley celebrates 80 years of Canning House and reaffirms UK's constant support of the Falklands

  

  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Americas and the Caribbean David Rutley was the main speaker at the event celebrating the work and achievements of Canning House during the last eighty years.