Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, September 4th 2015 - 08:12 UTC

  Falklands unaware of Argentina's scholarships program geared to Islanders

  

  Falklands' Director of Education Tom Hill has confirmed that no approach has been made to the Falkland Islands Education Department regarding a free scholarship scheme with a Patagonian university in Argentina.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2015 - 21:37 UTC

  Malvinas 1981: Argentina threatens to withdraw air link and fuel if there are no 'realistic' negotiations

  

  Penguin News in its latest edition in a special section, “A stroll down memory lane”, remembers events of 34 years ago, that is August 1981. And in effect then as now, Argentina calls for more talks, yet again, over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and emphasizes impatience at the lack of actual progress made.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2015 - 06:53 UTC

  Malvinas chapter of “Back to the Future”, script by Argentine pope Francis

  

  Argentina's Patagonia’s National University of San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB), based in Chubut province, officially introduced on Tuesday an academic scholarship program geared toward Falklands/Malvinas residents, and during a panel presided by Malvinas Affairs Secretary Daniel Filmus, Argentina's Under-Secretary of University Policies Laura Alonso and the university’s chief Alberto Ayape.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2015 - 03:58 UTC

  Malvinas Argentine veterans demand justice of abuse suffered at the hands of their officers

  

  Argentine Veterans from the 1982 Malvinas war will continue to voice their condemnation of abuse suffered at the hands of their superior officers as a legal team reiterate their demands for recognition and justice before federal courts in Río Grande on Monday.

• Monday, August 31st 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Sarkozy willing to bring sides together to address the issue

  

  Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy, visiting Buenos Aires, has offered to bring sides together regarding the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute between Argentina, the United Kingdom and the Islanders, according to the incumbent presidential candidate Daniel Scioli.

• Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands' MLAs confident they can 'educate' UK politicians who have swallowed the Argentine story

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmakers believe that the election of MP Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Labor would be harmful for that party, but anyhow they are confident that as happened before, they can 'educate' detractors who argue that Britain and Argentina should negotiate over the Falklands.

• Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  Shame on you Father Benedettini: Malvinas-dialogue poster support was real

  

  Shame and double confession for the Vatican's deputy spokesman father Ciro Benedettini: it has now clearly emerged that Pope Francis was well aware he was holding a poster calling for “Malvinas dialogue between the UK and Argentina”, and furthermore the Holy Father encouraged the man who setup the stage to continue strongly with the campaign.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2015 - 20:31 UTC

  Falklands' air defenses bolstered with Saab-built Giraffe AMB radars

  

  Britain has ordered additional Saab-built Giraffe AMB radars to bolster ground-based air defenses on the Falkland Islands against a possible future threat from Argentina, reports Defense News. The Swedish company announced on 24 August that it had received an order valued at 610 Swedish krona million ($74 million dollars) from the UK Ministry of Defense for the supply of new radars and the upgrade of existing systems.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2015 - 20:09 UTC

  Falklands' Humpback exploration well results delayed until September

  

  Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd told investors that drilling of the deep water Humpback exploration well in South Falkland basin has run into delays. They were described as ‘unforeseen equipment and operational issues’ and it has added just over a month to the schedule – to about 100 days from 65 planned days – so the well results are now expected during September.

• Monday, August 24th 2015 - 08:54 UTC

  Pope Francis and the Malvinas

  

  By Jimmy Burns - The snapped moment of encounter projected fast and globally on the world wide web has become as much as a characteristic of the Francis papacy, as his twitter account @pontifex. This is a papacy with a charismatic personality and instinctive communicator at its helm. It is also a papacy advised by media specialists and diplomats that know something about the opportunity offered by the digital age to spread a message with an impact that would have inconceivable just a few years ago.