Tag: Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, August 27th 2013 - 02:41 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker arrives in Brasilia for round of contacts to promote the Islands

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Dick Sawle is expected on Tuesday in Brasília, capital of Brazil where he will explain the Islanders’ decision to remain a British Overseas Territory and give an idea of life in the South Atlantic archipelago, its economy and social achievements as a prosperous, democratic community.

• Monday, August 26th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  South Georgia releases stamps commemorating former governor Sir Rex Hunt

  

  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are currently promoting the release of a set of stamps commemorating the life of the former Falklands and dependencies governor Sir Rex Hunt. The release of the stamps on June 11 coincided with a memorial service for Sir Rex Hunt at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, London.

• Monday, August 26th 2013 - 03:25 UTC

  Falkland's Falklands’ lawmakers to Commonwealth Parliamentary conference in South Africa

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLA Roger Edwards and MLA Barry Elsby are travelling to South Africa to attend the 59th Commonwealth Parliamentary conference and associated events to be held between 28 August and 6 September

• 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”.