Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Toothfish poaching top of CCAMLR meeting agenda; Spain remains in first position as Argentine fish buyer; Fisheries protocol with Cape Verde extended; Korean businessmen express their interest in Vigo; 'World Pelagics' conference launches 'Fish Africa 2003'; Farmed salmon escape causes chaos in the X Region; EU overexploits African waters, says WWF;ICES hake ban could moor Galician thirty vessels;

• Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  DAP presents Havilland Dash-7

  Punta Arenas based DAP airlines officially presented this Monday its latest acquisition, the 50 seats Havilland Dash-7 that will be combining air and sea cruises to Antarctica.

• Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Islander believes in “further cooperation” between Islands and Argentina.

  Falkland Islander Tony Blake says he believes that it is “erroneous and dangerous” for Falkland Islanders not to be represented at meetings concerning Islanders because “we should be able to clarify some points that people like to make about the Falklands and in a friendly manner persuade people that the impressions that they have of the Islands are wrong.”

• Tuesday, October 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Portillo: 21-years on positions are clear.

  Michael Portillo MP said Monday night that he thinks both the United Kingdom and Argentine positions are clear regarding the Falkland Islands and have not changed that he does not foresee that they will change and that the best thing is to leave them (sovereignty negotiations) to one side and look for ways to expand upon links between the two countries.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Seven marathon challenge hit by blizzards.

  Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been forced to alter his seven marathons on seven continents challenge after blizzards and engine trouble scuppered his Antarctic start.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Regional News from Pta. Arenas.

  Headlines:
  Relief among Magallanes sheep farmers; Skorpios inaugurates new jetty in Puerto Natales; Argentina and Chile eliminate migratory red tape; Airline project delayed; Medicine School in Magallanes; Cheaper flights from Río Gallegos.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar election November 27

  Gibraltar will be going to the polls on November 27th. The dissolution of the House of Assembly by Governor Sir Francis Richards “at the Chief Minister's request” was the starting gun that sets the race for the biggest prize in local politics: 6 Convent Place.
  Nomination papers must be delivered at the House of Assembly not later than noon on Thursday November 6 2003.

• Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance: Furthest South.

  Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is about to venture further south than ever before.

• Sunday, October 26th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  South Atlantic cooperation main topic in ABC

  Virtually unnoticed by the Argentine press the Argentine British Conference, Buenos Aires 2003 edition, took off Saturday morning in the Argentine Council for International Relations, CARI, with former British Defence Secretary Michael Portillo giving participating in the opening conference, “Developments since the last ABC in 2000”.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News

  Brazil seeks investors in South Korea; Chile claims Spain is over catching swordfish; Koreans, world's main consumers of seafood; Online auctions in Galicia by 2005.