Falkland Islands

• Monday, February 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Seventeen Filipino crew members rescued from a jigger on fire in Falklands' waters arrived in Montevideo

  

  Seventeen Filipino crew members have arrived safe and sound to Montevideo, following the 11 February fire and loss of their Taiwanese flagged jigger in Falkland Islands waters last week. “Jun Rong” had a total crew of 69, and 64 were rescued and taken to the capital of Uruguay where they underwent medical attention, and are waiting to fly back to their homes.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 10:55 UTC

  Falklands' bishop travels to Stanley for a confirmation service

  

  Three people were confirmed this week in the most southerly cathedral in the Anglican Communion – but the cathedral’s bishop, Tim Thornton, had to travel some 8,000 miles from his office in London, England, for the service, reports the Anglican Communion News Service.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Jigger and trawler collide in Argentina's mile 201; crew rescued and heading for Montevideo

  

  A Chinese flagged jigger sank after colliding with a Spanish flagged trawler on Friday morning to the northwest of the Falkland Islands. All thirty crew members have been rescued by other fishing vessels, and are heading for Montevideo, according to the latest reports from the Argentine Coast Guard. The collision involved the jigger V Zhong Yuan Yu 11 and the trawler Pesca Vaqueiro, which went undamaged.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 07:32 UTC

  Falklands has offered 105 licenses for the new Illex squid season

  

  The Illex squid fishery season starts on February 14 and 105 licenses have been offered confirmed Director of Natural Resources John Barton. He added: “Not all vessels which applied received licenses. The number of licenses offered is the same as the last few years.”

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 11:59 UTC

  Falklands makes public AAIB investigation into Islander VP-FBM incident

  

  The Falkland Islands government has made public the release from the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch referred to an incident involving one of the Islands Air Service Islander, during a regular landing last June.

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 07:46 UTC

  Falklands using drones to create fine scale models of minefields

  

  The minefields around the Falkland Islands capital, Stanley, dating back to the South Atlantic conflict, have remained largely untouched for most of nearly 35 years, due to the restrictions in place around access to the minefields. Over this time, they have become a haven for Falkland’s wildlife.

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 07:10 UTC

  Falkland Islands' Brexit costs considered in the House of Lords

  

  The impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands has been raised in the UK’s House of Lords, with Lib Dem Lord Nigel Jones tabling questions to the Foreign Office. Lord Jones asked the government what assessment they had made of the Falklands’ EU exports, and the impact of World Trade Organization tariffs on Islands fisheries.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Falklands' king penguins among the top wildlife photos of the year

  

  A beautiful image of two male lions rubbing each other's faces in Tanzania has been crowned the People's Choice wildlife photo of the year. The picture, entitled Bond of Brothers, won the contest organized by London's Natural History Museum after 16,000 nature lovers took part in a public vote.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Crew of Taiwanese jigger that caught fire in Falklands' waters en route to Montevideo

  

  The Falkland Islands government confirmed on Wednesday that the Taiwanese jigger Jung Ron which caught fire approximately 60 nautical miles north of Stanley, is now drifting to a position 110 nautical miles NE of Stanley and continues to head away from the Falkland Islands coastline.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 08:13 UTC

  Family of Falklands Fisheries officer killed in Brazil donate £50,000

  

  Cash raised for a Falkland Islands' biker injured in a crash in Brazil was given away to help others after his death, an inquest heard. Christopher Peck, 34, originally from Workington, but who was working in the Islands was two weeks into an 18-week Uruguay to Canada trip when he was hit by a lorry.