Falkland Islands

• Sunday, August 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Cultural change is needed, not more clinics”

  Offering cheap or free access to indoor sports facilities would be a better move to improving the nation's health than establishing ?well men clinics' said the Falkland Islands' Chief Medical Officer adding that “as a country the Falklands give out all the wrong messages”.

• Sunday, August 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Councillors assure public over Straw/Bielsa talks.

  Falklands' elected Councillors reiterated this week in Stanley that the Islands' sovereignty will not be discussed during the forthcoming meeting in New York between the Argentine Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

• Friday, August 27th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  A short, snowy shock; Chief Executive responds to Forbes' agents; Illex 2005 forecast is discouraging; GCSE results arrive;Wedding holiday approved.

• Friday, August 20th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Closer Falklands-St Helena links.

  The Governor of British Overseas Territory St Helena, David Hollamby, has appointed the first official representative for St Helena in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, August 20th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Mixed reactions to A level results; Chile backs up Argentine claim to Falklands; Forbes' agents urge against appeal; Wedding holiday for kids? Military chief to visit.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  “Devolved integration or full independence”

  A Bulgarian academic foresees the Falkland Islands form of government evolving into one of two principal options of self-determination: “the option of free association or devolved integration, and the option of full independence.”

• Tuesday, August 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Leeds Castle rerouted: “good will gesture” towards Argentina.

  The current Argentine administration aggressive Falklands/Malvinas campaign and the subsequent “exchange” of statements with the Foreign Office seem to have definitively involved Chile, according to the Santiago press.

• Monday, August 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  A new site on the Falkland Islands has emerged in the web.

  The creation of Jason Lewis and Alison Inglis
  www.falklands.info offers an extensive pro-active coverage of the Islands plus an invitation to all visitors to participate in the Falklands experience.
  
  Jason has roots going back to the original settlers of the Islands and Alison is a recent newcomer who quickly fell in love with the Islands making them her home.
  
  Impeccable credentials for an authentic peoples' website initiative with the necessary human sensitivity to counterbalance a world overwhelmed by the influx of statistical and strategic facts.

• Saturday, August 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Storm over the South Atlantic

  The following article was published in today's Buenos Aires Herald by Michael Soltys.
  
  Book launch “Argentina-Britain, Bilateral Agreements 1823-2002”

• Friday, August 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Straw to meet Bielsa: ?no sovereignty talks'; Loligo going well; Drink driver avoids jail; Servicemen's San Carlos to Stanley yomp raises over £1,000.