Tag: Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:34 UTC

  Falklands’ Health Services praised by UK Ministry of Defence audit

  

  An audit into the Falkland Islands Health Service praised the quality care to patients and the impressively wide provision of health care services for such a remote and isolated community.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 18:57 UTC

  RAF biggest ever aircraft transport and tanker begins testing in UK

  

  The Royal Air Force largest ever aircraft with a 60 metre wingspan and nearly 60 metres long arrived in the UK for the first time this week, the MOD has announced. The new future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has also been named publicly by the RAF as Voyager.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 10:03 UTC

  Desire plugs Ninky well, plans to move to East Flank based on positive 3D

  

  Falkland Islands Desire Petroleum reported Monday that it had completed the drilling of its Ninky prospect (2.620 metres) which showed the reservoir quality “is generally poor” and therefore the well will be plugged and abandoned, according to an official report released Monday.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 19:59 UTC

  Falklands’ deports Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences

  

  Two Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences for drugs related crimes in the Falkland Islands have been deported and since last Sunday are back in Spain, reports the Islands Police Headquarters.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 03:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands represented at Royal Wedding

  

  A Falkland Islander will be joining the ranks of the privileged few at the Royal Wedding of the Prince William and Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey on April 29.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 17:19 UTC

  Falklands’ farmers benefit from all time high wool prices

  

  Falkland Islands producers have cause for celebration this season with wool prices at an all time high.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 13:23 UTC

  Falklands names Islander new Mineral Resources Director, beginning 2012

  

  The Falkland Islands has nominated an Islander as new Director of Mineral Resources who will be taking over from Phyl Rendell when she retires as the end of the year, announced the government of the Islands.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 21:49 UTC

  Three year contract for the new Ice patrol HMS Protector to replace the Red Plum

  

  The Royal Navy will have a new ‘Protector’ of British interests in Antarctica. HMS Protector, upholding the famous name of the 1950s and 60s Antarctic survey vessel, is being loaned on a three-year trial with the Fleet while the long-term future of the Antarctic Patrol vessel HMS Endurance is considered.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 08:43 UTC

  Unasur letter supporting Argentina’s Malvinas claims delivered to Ban Ki-moon

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman met Wednesday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and reiterated Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands this time reinforced with a formal request from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur leaders in support of Argentina’s “historic and legitimate rights”.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 01:10 UTC

  Desire Petroleum confident of its Falklands’ portfolio prospects potential

  

  Falklands Desire Petroleum has said the past 12 months had proved an “energetic” period for the company with the information gathered leading to believe that the East Flank Play Fairway has a great deal of potential.