Tag: de-mining

• Thursday, March 7th 2024 - 09:08 UTC

  Falklands appoints Explosive Ordnance Advisor; mines found on Hell's Kitchen beach

  

  Following the sitting of the Falkland Islands ExCo on Tuesday 27 February, a phased clearance proposal from Fenix Insight Limited was approved. The proposal includes the provision of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Advisor, following the discovery of a number of mines at Hell’s Kitchen beach on the designated Government Reserve, located on the Murrell Peninsula.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands celebrates completion of demining with a symbolic “Reclaim the Beach”

  

  On Saturday 14 November 2020, the Falkland Islands community will be taking part in celebrations to mark the completion of the Islands-wide demining program after 38 years since the end of the 1982 conflict. The Falklands' Government has announced that activities will begin with an event to officially reopen Gypsy Cove/Yorke Bay, the final area of the Falklands to officially be declared mine-free.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2020 - 10:47 UTC

  Falklands' Yorke Bay, a coastline reborn following the clearance of mines

  

  She born and raised in the Falklands in a family long established in the Islands, and belongs to the first generations of Islanders who went to university, helping to transform a lethargic sheep-farming colony into a vibrant, proud community with a vigorous sense of self-sufficiency and country spirit.

• Thursday, February 9th 2017 - 10:32 UTC

  Falklands announces new round of demining demolitions

  

  Project Manager for Dynasafe BACTEC Limited, Julius Unsung has notified that the next demolitions as part of the Falklands Demining project are planned for Thursday 9th February 2017 between 10am – 3pm.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 07:32 UTC

  Falkland’s Demining Project fourth phase draws to a close

  

  The current phase of demining in the Falkland Islands, which began in January 2015, is nearing completion and MercoPress recently caught up with the Head of the Falkland Islands Demining Programme Office (FIDPO), Guy Marot, to discuss the ongoing progress of demining in the Falklands.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2016 - 08:37 UTC

  Chilean Army clearing Magallanes region of anti personnel mines

  

  The Chilean Army is involved in anti personnel-mine sweeping operations in the Magallanes region, north of Punta Arenas, as part of the country's commitment to have the region free of all mines by 2020 thus complying with the Ottawa convention.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2015 - 22:14 UTC

  Argentina/Chile celebrate Tierra del Fuego mines-free; Rossi claims UK impedes mine-clearance in Falklands

  

  Argentina and Chile defense ministers, Agustín Rossi and Jorge Burgos, attended this week a historic ceremony in which they signed a document declaring Tierra del Fuego free of anti-personal mines. During the meeting minister Rossi blamed the UK for not allowing Argentina to clear the mines in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:08 UTC

  Falklands focused on a multi-year plan of mine clearance

  

  Demining work did not take place this summer in the Falkland Islands, “because efforts were focused on agreeing a multi-year plan for the next round of mine clearance operations,” Member of Legislative Assembly Mike Summers stated this week.

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:28 UTC

  UN calls for a world free from the threat of mines and other remnants of war

  

  On 8 December 2005, the UN General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. To that effect UN Secretary General has released a message.

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:07 UTC

  On Mine Awareness Day, OAS praises Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

  

  On the International Mine Awareness Day (April 4), the Organization of American States highlighted the successful humanitarian demining efforts throughout the Americas. National authorities in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are to be commended for increasing awareness of the dangers posed by landmines, for reducing the number of landmine victims, and for assuming responsibility for their national programs, said OAS.