Get our news on your inbox! x

Remember me Forgot password

MercoPress, en Español

Montevideo, December 19th 2025 - 02:12 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Friday, July 14th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Falklands, MPC in routine training exercise next week

    MPC which includes the MPA International Airport and Mare Harbor Port

    From 16 July until 23 July 2023, Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC, personnel will be conducting a series of routine training exercise activities around the Falkland Islands. Key dates to be aware of:

  • Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 22:22 UTC

    Falklands approves additional medical funding

    The Standing Finance Committee funded £600,000, and £200,000 annually, for an Arthroplasty ‘Catch-Up’ Plan to treat Islanders for hip or knee replacements.

    The Falkland Islands Standing Finance Committee met in the Liberation Room this week and approved initial funding of £600,000, then £200,000 annually, for an Arthroplasty ‘Catch-Up’ Plan to treat Islanders who have been waiting for hip or knee replacements.

  • Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 22:21 UTC

    Falklands CFL Charitable Fund made seven awards this year

    “After a few slow years during Covid the competition for funding was lively this year,” noted CFL Trust Chair Janet Robertson.

    Falkland Islands Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Charitable Trust has made a total of seven awards this year, benefitting a range of people both in the Falklands community and beyond.

  • Monday, July 10th 2023 - 19:17 UTC

    Falklands launches tender for replacement of port facility FIPASS

    FIPASS, the obsolete port terminal from the Falklands, which government and the private sector want to renew (Pic FIG)

    FIG today launched a tender for the provision of a new port facility for the Falkland Islands. The tender process was approved by Executive Council in February 2023, and today’s launch follows months of work with professional advisers and engagement with existing port users to refine the specification and provide both FIG and prospective tendering companies with a robust and complete model of what the Falklands needs from its port facility, looking decades into the future.

  • Monday, July 10th 2023 - 02:24 UTC

    Falklands government and NGOs restores tussac peatland on nature reserves

    The two pictures show the eroded soil at Gid’s and Middle Islands, before and after the four day planting of 17,000 tussac tillers Photo Credit to Sally Poncet.

    The Environment Department of the Falkland Islands Government has announced a successful tussac planting campaign at Gid’s and Middle Islands this winter in collaboration with Island LandCare and the Antarctic Research Trust.

  • Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 14:38 UTC

    New Sikorsky Bristow helicopter unloaded at Falklands' MPA

    The helicopter was delivered on the Falkland Islands Resupply Ship (FIRS) and transported to the Bristow hangar at MPC, HQ of BFSAI.

    Bristow Group responsible for Search and Rescue, SAR, and aircraft support solutions at Mount Pleasant Complex, in the Falkland Islands moved a new helicopter frame by road from Mare Harbour to Heli-Ops on Friday 6 July.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Falklands are holding Mid Winter Swim plus a “Lunacy Certificate”

    Previous mid winter swims have been a great success

    On Sunday 9th July Falkland Islands are holding their Mid-Winter Swim at Surf Bay. The annual event raises funds for the Lighthouse Seafarers Mission; the Cancer Support and Awareness Trust and the Stephen Jaffray Memorial Fund.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Falklands' farmers very much interested in environment conferences

    Conferences from SAERI, Falklands Conservation, DEFRA and local experts were of much interest for the Falklands' farmers

    Farmers Week took place this week, with members of the agriculture working community travelling to Stanley to discuss the future of the industry, potential challenges and solutions, and a range of other discussions, activities and gatherings.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 07:10 UTC

    Economic storm brewing in Falkland Islands rural sector; low wool prices and sales paralyzed

    Farmers Week reception Government House: RBA Chair Lewis Clifton (L) & HE the Governor Alison Blake RI) (Pic Gov House)

    There's an “economic storm” brewing in the Falklands' rural sector said Chair of the Rural Business Lewis Clifton on Wednesday night. At the Farmers Week Reception hosted by Governor Alison Blake, Mr. Clifton gave a speech and spoke to Penguin News about the problems farmers are facing because of climate change and other economic factors.

  • Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

    “Fears over the Falklands mean we need a new Defense Plan”

    Radakin thought the Falklands could be defended against any serious challenge from Argentina

    By Robert Fox, Defense Correspondent, Evening Standard – The (British) Army is again in the spotlight, with a wonderful Whitehall row about who is to lead it after the charismatic General Sir Patrick Sanders steps down next year as Chief of the General Staff. With the Government's rehashed Defense Command White Paper due before Parliament goes on holiday in a few weeks’ time, rumors are rife of more cuts in Britain’s military capability.