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  • Saturday, June 22nd 2024 - 06:00 UTC

    Red Ensign Group Conference held in Jersey this month

    Some 80 delegates from all sixteen REG maritime administrations, including the Falklands, attended to discuss a range of standards and processes prominent within the maritime sector.

    Jersey hosted the annual Red Ensign Group, (REG) (35th) conference this month. From sustainability to greener shipping and innovation, future maritime strategies were under the spotlight at this year’s event.

  • Friday, June 21st 2024 - 20:29 UTC

    Dutchman Rutte becomes sole runner for NATO Chief position

    After the Romanian President withdrew his candidacy, Rutte will no longer need to take up teaching

    Dutchman Mark Rutte is poised to become the next Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization next month after Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrew his candidacy, leaving the acting prime minister of the Netherlands as the sole runner for the position.

  • Friday, June 21st 2024 - 19:56 UTC

    Milei warns Spaniards of the dangers of Socialism

    “Argentina and Spain have a lot in common,” Ayuso told Milei when pinning the medal on his lapel

    Argentine President Javier Milei told attendees at a ceremony in the Spanish capital that “we come from the future to tell you a story that it is desirable to avoid: The story of the damage caused by socialism.” He made those remarks in the presence of Madrid Community Chairwoman Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who granted him the International Medal of the Madrid Community decoration.

  • Friday, June 21st 2024 - 09:06 UTC

    Safeguarding Oceans - theme for Albatross Day

    By Veronica Iriarte - On Wednesday we celebraed our fifth World Albatross Day! The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) announced “Marine Protected Areas – Safeguarding our Oceans” as the theme for this year’s World Albatross Day.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 18:21 UTC

    Falklands Representative attends services for Liberation Day

    Former Commanding Officer of the FIDF, Major Justin McPhee MBE, Chairman of the South Atlantic Medal Association (SAMA82), Tom Herring and the FIG Representative to the UK & Europe, Richard Hyslop.

    Last week, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, Richard Hyslop, visited St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and attended the annual Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving at the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College in order to mark Liberation Day.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 15:29 UTC

    “If you have to deny the existence of a people, your argument does not work”, Falklands reply to Mondino

    MLA Teslyn Barkman was pungent in her statement to Minister Mondino

    “If you have to deny the existence of a people to make your argument work, your argument doesn’t work,” has been the public reply of Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Teslyn Barkman to the piece of Argentina's foreign minister Diana Mondino addressed to Falkland Islanders, during this week's session of the Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, held at the United Nations, New York.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Putin lands in Vietnam to strengthen Russia's alliances in East Asia

    Kim Jong Un called Russia “a true friend” and its President Vladimir Putin “the dearest friend of the Korean people”

    Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Hanoi Wednesday after signing the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement” with North Korea which reshaped the world's military preparedness after Moscow pledged to defend Pyongyang in case of attack by a foreign power. In Vietnam, the Russian president was to hold meetings with local leaders further to strengthen his country's allegiances in the region.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 09:50 UTC

    Understanding the daily fantasy sports market and Its future potential

    Photo: Unsplash

    The daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry has experienced a meteoric rise in the last couple of decades, shaking off the dated traditions of the Dugout Derby and Pigskin Playoff to evolve into a serious, billion-dollar market.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

    United Nations, is where our threatening neighbor hopes to gather support to rewrite history to suit their colonialist ambitions.

    By MLA Teslyn Barkman

    The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    “Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

    My family had been Falkland Islanders for over 100 years before Argentina first made their claim to the UN.

    A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.