Falkland Islands

• Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 05:49 UTC

  Falklands Memorial Map for the 258 families of fallen British combatants and Pangbourne Church

  

  “There's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.” Never were the words of Rupert Brooke more apt – though we must add Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to his original verse – than in the Falklands, where Islanders have named beaches, bays, harbors, islets, and inlets after the 258 souls killed in the 1982 conflict.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 23:07 UTC

  China backs Argentina's Falklands claim and warns about “colonial thinking”

  

  Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Geng Shuang has backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands and called on countries to abandon “colonial thinking”, warning of its serious implications for the international order.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 15:19 UTC

  Falklands team in Golden Shearers Sheep Championships at Scotland's Royal Highland Show

  

  Thursday is the day when a team of Falkland Islanders shearers and wool-handlers begin competing at the World Championships taking place in Scotland at the Royal Highland Show. The team is made up of Jan Clarke, Steefen Turner, Jack Wilson, Tara Wilson, and Pilar Castro.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 13:56 UTC

  Falklands government negotiating the acquisition of Stanley Growers

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is currently in final negotiations with the Directors of Stanley Growers Limited and Stanley Nurseries and Garden Centre to acquire both businesses and the leases of the land on which they sit.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:45 UTC

  Falklands: ”We do not ask you to support the UK nor Argentina” but “supporting our right”

  

  This Tuesday, 20 June two elected members from the Falkland Islands Assembly addressed the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, the so-called UN Committee of 24. The first to address the C24 was MLA Gavin Short, who criticized the aggressive attitude of Argentina towards the Falklands and mentioned several actions, which sought to undermine the Islands' economy.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

  Argentina again calls on UK for peaceful solution to Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  As announced the Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday morning, in New York, before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization again called on the United Kingdom for bilateral negotiations with Argentina for a pacific and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands, Expanded eligibility for the Family Allowance

  

  Last Tuesday 30 May the Falkland Islands ExCo approved an amendment to the Family Allowances Ordinance. This means that from 1 July 2023 families who have been ordinarily resident in the Falkland Islands for at least three years will now be eligible for Family Allowance. This is in addition to those with Permanent Residence Permits (PRP) or Falkland Islands Status, who are already eligible.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentine Foreign Minister heads numerous delegation to the C 24 debate

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero is heading the delegation to the United Nations to participate at the Special Committee on Decolonization or C24, which will address the Argentine dispute with UK over the Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands and is hopeful of a resolution calling on both sides, Argentina and UK, to begin sovereignty negotiations over what is identified as the Malvinas Islands question.

• Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  UK Parliament consulting Falklands Legislative Assembly on Overseas Territoires

  

  There is currently an inquiry by UK Parliament into the status of the Overseas Territories in the 21st Century and the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission, confirmed MLA Teslyn Barkman to Penguin News this week.

• Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Falklands: Record Loligo catch, 53,578 tons, fifth year in a row

  

  Falkland Islands Director of Natural Resources Dr. Andrea Clausen reported there was another high catch of Loligo squid during this year’s first season, the fifth year in a row. Dr Andrea Clausen said in her report for the Fisheries Committee, meeting on June, that the total catch of Loligo had been 53,578 tons.