Investments

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Falklands to continue asphalting MPA Road to the airport

  

  The Falklands Islands Public Works Department (PWD) has announced that road works are soon to resume on the MPA Road to the international airport, in preparation for the asphalting to be undertaken this coming season. Work is expected to start on Thursday 31 August 2023.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Falklands Airbridge rerouted to East Midlands Airport, from August 12 to 26

  

  Due to essential repair work to the runway at RAF Brize Norton, the South Atlantic Airbridge connecting with the Falkland Islands will temporarily fly into, and out of East Midlands Airport (EMA). The final SAA flight into RAF Brize Norton prior to work commencing is scheduled to be the northbound service TOW 2233 due to depart MPC on Saturday 12 Aug. The following TOW 2230 service on Monday 14 Aug will depart from East Midlands Airport.

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Singapore interested in sealing trade accord with Mercosur and in the Port of Santos concession

  

  The government of city-state Singapore, in Southeast Asia, intends to participate in the concession process for Brazil's largest terminal, the Port of Santos (SP), as part of the greater trade negotiation with the Mercosur block.

• Friday, August 4th 2023 - 07:37 UTC

  Self-determination is the right of Falkland Islanders

  

  By Teslyn Barkman (*) - In March 2013, Falkland Islanders took to the polls in an internationally observed referendum in which 99.8% of voters, on a turnout of 92%, voted in favor of remaining a self-governing Overseas Territory of the UK. We spoke for our future.

• Friday, August 4th 2023 - 05:12 UTC

  EU countries recover beer production to pre pandemic output levels

  

  The European Union countries recovered their beer output levels to almost those preceding the pandemic years, producing nearly 34.3 billion liters of alcoholic beer in 2022, Eurostat said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 20:26 UTC

  NASA Chief says Argentine astronaut may soon travel to International Space Station

  

  NASA's Administrator Bill Nelson said Monday while visiting the Teófilo Tabanera Space Center (CETT) of the National Space Activities Commission (Conae), in the town of Falda del Cañete in the Argentine province of Córdoba, that an astronaut from the South American country might soon be traveling to the International Space Station.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 18:52 UTC

  Liberia becomes the world's largest ship registry; in bulk carriers, China is the flag

  

  For the first time in 30 years Panama is no longer the world’s largest ship registry. Rival Liberia has overhauled the Central American nation in terms of gross tonnage in new data issued by Clarksons Research.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Brazilian traders want federal gov't involved in Paraná River Waterway toll dispute

  

  The Brazilian Association for the Development of Inland Navigation (Abani) requested the Brazilian Foreign Ministry takes steps after the Argentine decision to seize a vessel of a Brazilian company in Greater Rosario due to debts in the payment of tolls for using the Paraná River waterway, it was reported.

• Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 11:04 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine official complaint, stimulates Warrah Resources mineral exploration

  

  Argentina in an official release has complained bitterly what it describes as UK's unilateral activity, for having awarded a new license for gold and other minerals exploration to Warrah Resources in the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Uruguay to build prison for transgender inmates

  

  Uruguayan authorities have announced plans to build a prison for transgender offenders, it was reported in Montevideo. Uruguay is the country with the highest per capita incarceration rate in South America, with four out of every 1,000 inhabitants behind bars.