Tag: Falkland Islands

• Saturday, August 9th 2014 - 06:59 UTC

  Prince William to alternate his royal duties with air ambulance pilot

  

  The Duke of Cambridge is to become an air ambulance pilot next spring, it has been announced. Kensington Palace said Prince William will join the East Anglian Air Ambulance flying both day and night shifts. It will become his main job, but his rota will take into account any duties he will continue to undertake on behalf of the Queen.

• Friday, August 8th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  Falkland Islands dispute becomes a political incident in Welsh politics

  

  The Welsh Conservatives say First Minister Carwyn Jones should distance himself from 'distasteful' comments over the Falkland Islands' sovereignty. The situation involved the Welsh leader, Argentine ambassador in UK Alicia Castro and Chubut governor Martin Buzzi, when they met to address next year's 150th anniversary of Welsh settlers in Patagonia.

• Sunday, August 3rd 2014 - 13:14 UTC

  HMS Portland back in UK after seven months patrolling including Falklands

  

  The crew of the Royal Navy warship HMS Portland returned home to a rapturous welcome in Plymouth on Friday after a successful seven-month deployment to West Africa, the Falkland Islands and the Caribbean. The vessel that was replaced by HMS Iron Duke in its Atlantic deployment spent four weeks in the Falklands.

• Thursday, July 31st 2014 - 07:24 UTC

  Falklands contracts expert in the delivery of capital investment programs

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced the appointment of Matt Bassford as the new Director of Central Services, succeeding Simon Fletcher who leaves the Islands this August.

• Friday, July 25th 2014 - 19:30 UTC

  Falklands Tourist Board planning strong presence at UK Bird Fair and World Market Travel

  

  Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) has been busy over the past weeks planning for upcoming events in the UK. The first event is in just three weeks when FITB will again be attending Bird Fair at Rutland Wildlife Reserve in Oakham, UK.

• Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 - 21:10 UTC

  “We are Falklands” photo exhibition opened in The Mall Galleries in London

  

  “We Are Falklands” an exhibition collecting works from Falkland Islanders and amateur photographers opened on Monday to the general public at The Mall Galleries in central London.

• Tuesday, July 22nd 2014 - 19:54 UTC

  Falklands' largest ever squad competing at Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

  

  Commonwealth Games take off in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday with the Falklands squad the largest the Islands have ever sent to the Games. Falklands will be competing in Badminton, Lawn Bowls and Shooting. The Games are estimated to have a global audience of 1.5 billion during the lavish opening ceremony.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 09:39 UTC

  BOT leaders, including Falklands, meet in Cayman Islands ahead of London's December council

  

  Several leaders from British Overseas Territories, BOT, including Falkland Islands, are meeting in Cayman Islands to discuss the agenda of the Joint Ministerial Council to be held in December in London.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Falklands enters oil production stage: contract awarded for designing tension leg platform

  

  International engineering and project management company, AMEC, will be the company responsible for designing Premier Oil’s tension leg platform (TLP) for the Sea Lion Development in the North Falklands Basin, 200 kilometers to the north of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 07:21 UTC

  Falklands' de-mining plans for next two seasons funded by FCO

  

  The Falkland Islands will be seeing further de-mining over the next two summer seasons funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) that will also carry out a tender process for the works, according to a report from Penguin News.