Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine government fail to honor agreement.

  It has been revealed during a meeting of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council, that the present Argentine Government has failed to provide London with Fisheries Scientific information on a regular basis, as agreed under the July 1999 Joint Statement which was signed by the Argentine/British/Falklands Governments.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Private Sector to provide community facility?

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Direct News.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Founder of HMS Sheffield Falklands Fund Dies

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Menem marries Saturday.

  Chilean television star Cecilia Bolocco, a former 1987 Miss Universe, and former Argentine president Carlos Menem will be marrying “next Saturday” according to Veronica Bolocco, the bride's sister.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  South America Breaking News.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Oceanographer's Antarctic Search for Shackleton's Endurance.

  One of the world's most experienced underwater explorers, the United States Oceanographer, Dr Robert Ballard, who has discovered several famous wrecks, including the liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, is preparing to embark on his toughest challenge yet -- a mission to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance. She sank in 1915 and has remained undetected ever since beneath the Antarctic pack ice.

• Monday, May 21st 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine War Cemetery Memorial in Falklands ? No Progress.

  It is now 18 months since the Argentine Government last communicated with the Falkland Islands Government over a proposed permanent War Memorial that is to be sighted in the Argentine War Cemetery at Darwin, some 60 miles from the capital Port Stanley

• Sunday, May 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Of garden gnomes and penguins

  Back in 1983, when I was the FT's Buenos Aires correspondent, I wrote about my 14,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands, two ways across the Atlantic, via the RAF base of Brize Norton in Oxfordshire via Dakar, Ascension Island, and an unscheduled emergency landing in southern Brazil.

• Saturday, May 19th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Governor Mr. Donald Lamont back in the Islands.