Falkland Islands

Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:44 UTC
HMS Protector calls it a season, heads back north

The Royal Navy's icebreaker HMS Protector has completed her Antarctic scientific mission for the 2023 Antarctic season safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research, it was announced.
Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 10:50 UTC
Falklands War frigate to be turned into a museum

The Royal Navy's HMS Ambuscade is to be preserved as a shipbuilding museum in Glasgow following her decommissioning by the Pakistan Navy, it was announced this week.
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 09:50 UTC
Falkland Islands: Refurbishing starts on Mount Pleasant runway

A contractor has started working on a £7m project to extend the lifespan of the runway at the Mount Pleasant Complex (MPC) airfield in the Falkland Islands until it can be fully re-laid in the coming years, the British Government reported Monday.
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 09:10 UTC
Successful Falklands tour for Gibraltar Regiment Band

Ten members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Band joined forces with colleagues from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment Band (PWRR) to deliver musical support on behalf of 3PWRR while their battalion were deployed in the Falklands for Exercise Tiger Island.
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 08:00 UTC
Former Argentine FM lashes out at Uruguayan President over Falklands trip

Former Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Solá said Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou's “main objective” was “to show his contempt for Argentina” after a group of lawmakers visited the Falkland Islands together with the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Montevideo Faye O'Connor.
Friday, February 17th 2023 - 07:00 UTC
Falklands: PICTO 21 group told to expect no help from FIG or MLAs

The so-called PICTO 21 group of Argentine visitors to the Falkland Islands looking for an accounting approach with which to measure ”the economic impact of the illegal occupation ... by the British government” will have no assistance from the local Legislative Assembly, it was announced.
Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 21:06 UTC
Final reminder of the Falkland Islands Status Amendments 2022

In September 2022 the Legislative Assembly approved amendments to the Falkland Islands Status Ordinance 1998. The amended Ordinance narrows the definition of a “qualified person” (which at the moment includes a Commonwealth citizen), limiting the definition to include a British citizen, a British Overseas Territory citizen or a British Overseas citizen.
Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 12:18 UTC
Multicultural Falklands organizing 'multicultural takeaway' in support of humanitarian needs in Turkey and Syria

Generous Falkland Islands are again organizing to aid human tragedy, this time to collect funds to help with the recovery of the tragic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, with an estimated loss of plus 41,000 lives and millions of dollars as hundreds of thousands were left homeless with the collapse of hundreds of buildings.
Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 09:24 UTC
“The Falklands are and will remain British,” MPs from the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme

Rob Butler MP, Conservative MP for Aylesbury, and Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP Labour for Slough are in the Falklands as part of the UK Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, a program ongoing for more than thirty years with the purpose of better-educating Members of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and others in military matters.
Wednesday, February 15th 2023 - 14:55 UTC
Winners of the Falklands40 Schools Competition begin their adventure in the Islands

On Tuesday afternoon Members of Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly met with the Falklands40 UK Student competition winners, who arrived in the Islands on Monday. MLAs thanked the group for their interest in wanting to visit the Islands, and for sharing their insight on the modern Falklands.