Tag: Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 07:29 UTC

  Argentina will formally protest vandalism at the Darwin cemetery in Falklands

  

  Argentina repudiated the ‘profanation’ of the hermitage at the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, which holds the graves of Argentine combatants who lost their lives during the 1982 conflict.

• Tuesday, July 31st 2012 - 22:13 UTC

  B&S abandons south Falklands oil and gas exploration; FOGL takes over

  

  After two disappointing results, Borders & Southern has officially completed its deep water drilling program in the South Falkland Islands basin, the company announced on Tuesday. The company said well Stebbing has been “successfully plugged and abandoned,” bringing to an end the Company's current two well drilling program.

• Monday, July 30th 2012 - 16:39 UTC

  Argentina plans to explore for oil and gas next to the Falklands

  

  As part of its “Malvinas noose tightening” policy the Argentine government is planning an international tender to offer licenses to explore for oil near the Falkland Islands, reports Buenos Aires main daily Clarin in its Monday edition, citing a letter to Congress by Cabinet chief Juan Manuel Abal Median.

• Monday, July 30th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  Falklands’ begins to work in organization of next year’s referendum

  

  The Falkland Islands government has started to prepare the list of issues that will have to be addressed for the organization of next year’s referendum on the political statute of the Islands, particularly the drafting of the question, inviting overseas observers and contracting a specialist to manage the whole operation.

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:41 UTC

  Falklands share the full spirit of the London Olympics with torch bearer Rebecca

  

  Falkland Islands residents were able to get into the swing of the lead up to the Olympics this week when one of 8,000 Olympic torch bearers, Commonwealth Games badminton gold medallist Rebecca Pantaney (36) carried a torch to the Islands.

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Lisa: CFK scaring its own people with the military routine exercises in Falklands

  

  The editor of the Falkland Islands weekly Penguin News twitted that Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is scaring its own people, regarding military exercises in the Islands, which Lisa Watson underlines are “routine”.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 20:54 UTC

  Red Cross to again address London over the Falklands Argentine unnamed graves

  

  The International Red Cross pledged it will again contact British authorities with Argentina’s request for special forensic groups to travel to the Falklands to identify combatants buried in Islands’ unnamed graves.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 19:11 UTC

  Argentine embassy confirms CFK will not attend Olympics opening in London

  

  The British media have turned their eyes on Argentina which has decided not to send its president to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, considered a diplomatic snub to Britain at a time of growing tensions over the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 18:57 UTC

  Falklands’ Fortuna launched this week its new seafood marketing website

  

  Fortuna, one of the Falkland Islands leading producer and exporter of premium quality frozen seafood launched this week its new seafood marketing website to expand the company’s marketing network.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2012 - 23:21 UTC

  Is There a Solution to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict?

  

  By Dr. Yoav J. Tenembaum (*) - The Falklands is a perennial red top tabloid favorite. But aside from providing patriotic copy, it is a squabble with serious diplomatic consequences. What to do (or not do) in the case of the Islands remains tricky. Is there a solution?<br />
  Theoretically, yes; practically, no.