Tag: Falkland Islands

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:39 UTC

  RFA ‘Black Rover’ returns to UK after 18 months support operations in Falklands

  

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Black Rover is returning to the UK on Sunday after an 18-month deployment in support of the Royal Navy operations in UK Overseas Territories including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, St Helena and Tristan Da Cunha.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  Falklands’ war Wessex helicopter involved in Sir Galahad disaster rescued for new role

  

  A Wessex helicopter which was used to rescue injured servicemen during the Falklands conflict is to have a new role as a cafe at a Shropshire paintball Centre.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 22:27 UTC

  UK Deputy PM very much interested in Falklands’ relations with ‘neighbours across the sea’

  

  UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was very much interested in the Falkland Islands situation, oil prospects and relations with “our neighbours across the sea”, said Islands’ lawmaker MLA Roger Edwards present at the Liberal-Democratic party conference this week in Birmingham.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 18:33 UTC

  Argentine president at UN threatens to suspend Falklands’ air link with Chile

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, threatened to review and suspend the Falklands/Malvinas air link with Chile, covered by the 14 July 1999 agreement, unless the UK abides by UN resolutions and begins talks with Argentina on disputed South Atlantic Islands’ sovereignty.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 01:58 UTC

  “The Tigers”: from Buckingham Palace changing the guard to the Falklands

  

  Soldiers from the Portsmouth area have swapped Royal duties for freezing Falkland Islands training reports the Portsmouth media. Up to 120 members of the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have travelled the 8,000 miles south from London to the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:42 UTC

  ‘Falklands Sea’ could fall hostage to South Korea/Japan sea names dispute

  

  South Korea is considering using the Argentine name for waters around the British-Overseas Territory Falkland Islands, in retaliation for Britain's refusal to use Seoul's name for the sea off the east of the Korean peninsula, according to Seoul newspaper reports

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 20:57 UTC

  Another Falklands company ‘on schedule’ to drill for oil in the next six months

  

  Falkland Islands exploration company Argos Resources released Monday morning interim results and CEO Ian Thomson told investors that the group is on schedule to be ‘drill ready’ in late 2011/early 2012 to begin off-shore exploration activities in the South Atlantic British Territory.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 06:48 UTC

  UK to ensure Overseas Territories’ constitutional arrangements are “effectively working”

  

  As a decade of British Overseas Territories’ constitutional revision is coming to a close the UK policy strategy is to ensure that constitutional arrangements are effectively working to be best interests of OT and the UK, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague this past week before the House of Commons.

• Sunday, September 18th 2011 - 12:26 UTC

  Falkland Islands: 2016 for oil says Rockhopper but Islanders cautious

  

  Rockhopper Exploration’s announcement this week that they expect to begin pumping oil in 2016, set the international media off on a further round of speculation about future wealth, but Falklands stakeholders and interested parties are taking a more cautious approach.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 21:57 UTC

  Preparations for Falklands’ war victory to be celebrated thirty years on

  

  Plans are being drawn up for celebrations to mark next year's 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, reports Wednesday the Evening Standard. The UK Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Falkland Islands government are working on how best to commemorate the 1982 conflict with Argentina.