
Headlines:
In the footsteps of '45'; New police boss appointed; Firearms Bill riles importers; Mass whale stranding; Galahad and Tristram honoured; Liberation commemoration.

During late March, Falklands Conservation, as part of Birdlife International, attended the fifth meeting of the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian shelf and areas of influence in Buenos Aires.

MORE than 800 people toured the Royal Navy ship HMS Clyde as it prepared to leave Scotland for the Falklands.

Latinamerica has never been so divided, Mercosur is but an illusion of integration and Brazil has lost its leadership and convergence capacity according to former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso who ruled from 1995 to 2000.

A top European Union trade negotiator begins this week an official visit to the four Mercosur country members in an attempt to re-launch the stalled talks with the South American block for an association agreement.

In a week commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands War, The History Channel UK is premiering three commissioned programmes including The Islander's War, a Point of View production by Mike Ford that will be screened in the United Kingdom at the beginning and the end of the Falklands' Week on June 11 and 17.

The town of Gosport, on the western side of Portsmouth harbour, and home of the Falklands Veterans Foundation, has hosted the first major event commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.

From Argentina to Venezuela, the shopping centre industry is expanding rapidly throughout much of South America, said speakers at a special focus on the continent at the ICSC Spring Convention, which concluded this week in Las Vegas.

Headlines:
Sailors restore Coventry's cross; 'No meeting of minds' on sovereignty, says Governor; New Chief Justice; Badminton coach visits.

This article from the May edition of Defence Focus, the magazine of the British Ministry of Defence, by Graham Bound, examines the defence of the Falkland Islands today, as the civilian and military communities there prepare to commemorate the 25th anniversary of conflict.