Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:22 UTC

  Falklands reviewing tax returns from oil industry but confident ‘an acceptable outcome can be reached’

  

  The Falkland Islands government is reviewing a tax return submitted by one of the oil companies currently operating off-shore the Islands and is confident a mutually acceptable outcome can be reached.

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:18 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker begins round of contacts in Brazil’s main cities

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Dick Sawle is expected next week in Brazil where he will be meeting representatives from the business community, students’ organizations and share lunch with a group of members of Congress, announced British ambassador in Brasilia Alex Ellis.

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 03:30 UTC

  Malvinas alleged ‘militarization’ again the obsession of Cristina Fernandez at anti-nuclear conference

  

  During an anti-nuclear weapon conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Cristina Fernández criticised the right to veto used by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council which she described as an “out of time” instrument and again attacked the UK for ‘sending nuclear submarines’ to the Falkland Islands and called for a region of peace in the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2013 - 23:45 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers thank Cristina Fernandez for helping get the Islanders' message to the world

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers at their final assembly on Thursday thanked Argentine President Cristina Fernandez for her, undoubtedly unintended assistance in getting the Falklands story publicized world-wide and in repeated headlines, reported the latest edition of the Penguin News in its front page.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2013 - 22:41 UTC

  Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history

  

  By Simon Jenkins (*) (The Guardian) Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Plymouth on Monday (August 12), past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar. The nation's breast heaves, the tears prick. The Olympic spirit is off to singe the king of Spain's beard. How dare they keep honest British citizens waiting six hours at Spanish border control? Have they forgotten the Armada?

• Monday, August 19th 2013 - 18:53 UTC

  Falklands’ Day celebrated on 14 August remembers first recorded sighting by John Davis in 1592

  

  Falkland Islands Day was celebrated last Wednesday 14 August with a reception at Government House in Stanley hosted by Governor Nigel Haywood. The date marks the first recorded sighting of the Falklands on 14 August 1592 by English explorer John Davis who captaining the 120-ton vessel ‘Desire’ in that month was blown by a storm into ‘certaine Isles never before discovered’. Davis account was published in 1600 in London by Richard Hakluyt.

• Thursday, August 15th 2013 - 15:23 UTC

  Invoking Falklands and common cause with Argentina, ‘Rajoy has burnt his boats with PM Cameron’

  

  Roger Boyes, Diplomatic Editor of The Times, has criticised the recent tactics by Spain and urges the conservative government to return to a more positive approach to the Gibraltar question. Likewise by invoking the Falklands and making common anti-British cause with Argentina the Spanish PM “has burnt his boats with British PM David Cameron”.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 01:45 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar: Spain considering a joint front with Argentina at UN, says Madrid media

  

  Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo will be visiting Argentina next September to meet with his peer Hector Timerman to discuss the Gibraltar and Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty disputes and consider the possibility of a joint front.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 03:52 UTC

  “Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: Self-determined”

  

  This week’s incursion of President Cristina Fernandez at the United Nations Security Council, (because during August Argentina holds the rotating presidency of the council9 caught the attention of The Economist in a brief piece under the heading “Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: self determined”.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2013 - 13:55 UTC

  Falklands sends support message to Gibraltar; Cameron on the phone with Rajoy

  

  The Falkland Islands sent on Wednesday a support message to Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the people of Gibraltar which is under strong pressure and threats from Spain over border crossings while from London it was reported that PM David Cameron called Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy to raise concerns about the escalation of the situation.