Politics

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Islands: Weekly “Penguin News” Update

  

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

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar decolonized and all that remains is “UN delisting”

  Joe Holliday, Gibraltar's deputy Chief Minister, told the United Nations seminar in Grenada that Gibraltar is decolonised and that it is for the UN to de-list the territory. The seminar reaffirmed the principle of self determination and Argentina and Spain were criticized for furthering their sovereignty disputes.

• Thursday, May 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' Governor: “no meeting of minds” with Argentina

  

  Beginning with a parade of members of the Falkland Islands Defence Force, which is usually conducted in icy conditions, the annual budget session of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council (LegCo) in May is the most important of the year.

• Thursday, May 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  RN newest patrol ship visits Clyde before heading for Falklands

  

  The Royal Navy's newest patrol vessel HMS Clyde will pay her first and last visit to her affiliations in Inver Clyde this weekend (26-29 May).

• Thursday, May 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pope acknowledges sufferings of Latam colonized peoples

  Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged the suffering of indigenous Latin Americans during European colonialisation in a move to control damage caused by remarks made during his recent trip to Brazil.

• Thursday, May 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain cancels permission to search for sunken HMS Sussex

  

  Spain has cancelled the permission of a US treasure-hunting company to search for a sunken British warship in the Strait of Gibraltar over suspicions that it has illegally exported a coin treasure found in Spanish waters, the daily El Pais reported Thursday.
  Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration says the treasure was found in international waters and imported legally into the United States.

• Thursday, May 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Skanska's bribes scandal shakes Kirchner government

  

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner admitted that it's possible that other officials of his administration could be involved in the “Skanska-Gate” scandal involving alleged bribes in public works contracts, but insisted it was basically “a corruption case in the private sector”.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's Energy minister resigns amid bribes accusations

  Brazil's Mines and Energy minister Silas Rondeau resigned amid accusations he was bribed by a construction company that obtained contracts to provide electricity to poor rural areas in a program championed by the nation's first working class president

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands new Chief Justice appointed

  On instructions from the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor formally appointed His Lordship Christopher Gardner QC as Chief Justice of the Falkland Islands on Monday 21 May 2007. Mr Gardner was sworn in by Acting Governor Mahala Wynns in the Turks and Caicos Islands on 22 May.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush wants US citizen for World Bank; Blair out of the race

  

  President George W. Bush said this week he wants a United States citizen to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, playing down speculation he might turn to departing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the job.