Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, November 14th 2014 - 06:27 UTC

  Falklands fourteen young footballers off to Chile for ‘South of the World Cup’

  

  Fourteen young footballers from the Falkland Islands will fly to Punta Arenas, Chile with their coaches on Saturday to take part in the Unifying Continents at the South of the World Cup.The Falklands is entering two teams in the tournament that also includes teams Colegio Aleman, Colegio Cruz del Sur, Colegio Britanico, Leumag, and two teams from Club Deportivo Victoria.

• Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 07:19 UTC

  South Georgia prepared to help return the trawler 'Viola', an icon of Hull

  

  Steam trawler “Viola” that skirmished with U-boats in the First World War has spent the past 50 years rusting off in South Georgia could finally be making its final voyage home, to Hull, according to a piece from Will Ramsey published in the Hull Daily Mail.

• Thursday, November 13th 2014 - 06:39 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories celebrates 20tt anniversary at Westminster

  

  A reception was held on the evening of November 4, in the Palace of Westminster to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA), as reported by the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 18:16 UTC

  Falklanders invited to 'third party' dialogue with Argentine lawmakers

  

  An Argentine congressman has extended an open invitation to two, three 'inhabitants of the Falkland Islands', to participate in a meeting with Argentine lawmakers interested in listening to the 'third party' in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 03:33 UTC

  Falklands' visit of MPs postponed until after UK general election in May

  

  The visit of two Members of the British Parliament to the Falkland Islands, as announced last week has been cancelled. However the invitation to visit the Islands remains open and hopefully it will take place next year.

• Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 03:19 UTC

  “Falklands/Malvinas current policy is a losing option and leads nowhere”

  

  Argentina's current policy on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty is a losing option because it is a 'maximalist' attitude with the purpose of ‘full recovery' of the disputed islands, said Argentine political scientist and writer Carlos Escudé.

• Monday, November 10th 2014 - 07:34 UTC

  Latam Energy Organization approves statement on “Malvinas sovereignty”

  

  Energy ministers from the Latin American Energy Organization, OLADE, meeting in San Salvador approved last Friday a statement on “Malvinas Islands sovereignty” referred to the “illegal hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation undertaken in the Islands surrounding waters”, points out a release from the Argentine Foreign ministry.

• Saturday, November 8th 2014 - 11:13 UTC

  Aggressive promotions and solid leadership pays off for the Falkland Islands!

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has been working hard to produce the highest standard of representation for the islands to date. Following a highly successful campaign over the past two and a half years of developing a higher awareness for the Falkland Islands through targeted and high level marketing, promotions and events, have pulled off the most successful of the years promotions.

• Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 21:50 UTC

  Falklands oil industry regulated by UK North Sea standards, one of the highest in the world

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands has strongly refuted remarks by Argentine official 'Malvinas Secretary' Daniel Filmus, published in The Guardian, in which he states that hydrocarbons activities in the Falklands are environmentally reckless, and describes Filmus words as “yet another example of the Argentine's government futile efforts to damage the Falklands economy”

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 21:09 UTC

  Falklands' guardian HMS Clyde braves storms for routine South Georgia visit

  

  Falkland Islands guardian HMS Clyde braved spring storms to pay her first visit of the Austral summer to the wildlife paradise of South Georgia. The patrol ship crossed 850 miles of ocean to reach the remote island – part of its domain as the Royal Navy’s permanent presence in the Falklands – to work with British Antarctic Survey scientists and generally fly the flag for the UK.