Falkland Islands

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Construction boom: FIH wins contract to build 70 houses in the Falklands

  

  FIH group plc the AIM quoted international specialist services group with businesses in the Falkland Islands and the UK, has announced an important new contract secured by its Falkland Islands business “FIC”.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 23:29 UTC

  Arrival of first expedition vessels into the Falkland Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands will see the arrival of its first expedition vessel as part of a scaled down summer tourist season on Thursday 25 November 2021. The vessel, Silver Explorer, will call to Bleaker Island and Bull Point for the day and passengers will be permitted to disembark and visit the areas.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 22:43 UTC

  Falklands' delegation participates in first JMC presential meeting since 2018

  

  Falklands had a most busy week in London with ministerial meetings, contacts, speeches, addressing an agenda full of issues in different fields most of them of interest for the Islands and shared with colleagues from the Association of Overseas Territories.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine sixth-graders supplied educational material reading “East and West Falkland” in English

  

  Education authorities in the Argentine Province of Santa Fe were placed under investigation Tuesday after it was found that a booklet distributed among sixth-grade schoolchildren featured a map where the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands were depicted as British territory despite the country's claim otherwise.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  RRS Sir Attenborough off to Antarctica; Falklands' call in three weeks and a half

  

  Britain’s new polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, departed the UK this week for its maiden voyage to Antarctica. She left Harwich on Tuesday, with 66 crew and personnel on board, for a short stop at Portsmouth to take on fuel before departing the UK by 18 November.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Chinese top scholar suggests resolving the Falklands dispute “by force”

  

  In recent years Beijing has incorporated itself into the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute debate between UK and Argentina siding with its South American increasingly political, financial and trade partner.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Sukey receives her OBE “for services to the people of the Falkland Islands”

  

  Former Falkland Islands Government Representative at Falklands House in London, Sukey Cameron, received her OBE from HRH the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross presents final report after six Argentine soldiers are identified

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross presented on Monday, in Geneva, its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  South Georgia invites comments on its five-year framework for managing the territory

  

  South Georgia’s government (GSGSSI) recently published ‘Protect, Sustain, Inspire’ (PSI), their five-year framework for managing the territory over the next few years. They are now developing a system of milestones and success criteria, by which their progress in implementing the aims of the framework can be gauged.