Tag: Falkland Islands

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Winners of the Falklands regional student competition have been announced

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and the British embassies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay have announced the winners of the 2019/2020 student competition to visit the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands government commits to introducing Public Register of Beneficial Ownership by 2023

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced on Tuesday its commitment to introduce a Public Register of Beneficial Ownership in the Islands by 2023, which aligns with the UK Government’s timetable.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Ten Falklands' Governors take Sukey Cameron to lunch

  

  Ten Falkland Islands former Governors took Sukey Cameron MBE to lunch to mark her retirement as Falkland Islands Government Representative in London. Ms. Cameron told Penguin News she believed it was the first occasion that they have all been together.

• Friday, October 11th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Falklands plans housing development on the site of a British camp from WWII

  

  The Falkland Islands population is growing and equally significant future development prospects are encouraging, thus the need for more housing particularly in the capital Stanley. Working on this the Planning and Building Committee has approved a new residential housing development, ‘Phase 6 Sapper Hill’, to be allocated on Bennett’s Paddock, near where Ross Road West meets Moody Brook Road.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 10:57 UTC

  Argentina extends exploration licenses to five oil companies in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina has awarded five oil companies licenses to explore for hydrocarbons offshore, in the country's continental shelf, in an area identified as the Argentine Sea, or South Atlantic, which basically extends between the continent and the Falkland Islands

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air-link will be serviced with a Boeing 767, Argentine sources

  

  The Argentine media has revealed some additional details about the coming weekly airlink between the Falkland Islands and the South American continent, scheduled to begin “sometime in the second half of November”.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 18:16 UTC

  Argentine finalists of the Falklands Regional Student Competition

  

  The Falklands Regional Student Competition offers a one-week trip for students in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay to visit the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 14:57 UTC

  Falklands flagged, BAS latest incorporation: RRS Sir David Attenborough”

  

  The Royal Research Ship RRS Sir David Attenborough, has been flagged to the Falkland Islands and officially named in a ceremony at Birkenhead, near Liverpool on Thursday September 26.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine officers accused of 'burying' and 'staking' conscripts during the Falklands conflict face trial

  

  An Argentine federal judge from the city of Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego will be questioning four officers who allegedly during the 1982 Falklands' conflict ordered the “burial” and “staking” of a group of conscripts for having slaughtered a sheep, since they were desperately hungry and suffering from cold weather conditions.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Royal Navy fifth patrol vessel formally named HMS Spey; Falklands' bound HMS Forth undergoing helicopter trials

  

  The fifth and final new patrol ship for the Royal Navy was today formally named as work on HMS Spey nears completion. The shattering of a bottle of whisky from the affiliated Speyside Distillery as it struck the hull of the £127m Offshore Patrol Vessel marked the formal ‘baptism’ after Spey’s sponsor Lady Alison Johnstone had uttered the historic words “I name this ship…”.