Tag: Falkland Islands

• Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  London with no Argentine ambassador until at least 2012 to protest Falklands’ oil round

  

  The Argentine legation in London will remain without an ambassador until at least the end of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner four year mandate next December, confirmed diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires. The decision was originally taken to protest the current (second) round of oil exploration in the Falkland Islands’ waters.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 23:44 UTC

  Falklands’ second visit for Argentina’s ‘Rugby without borders’

  

  Scheduled to arrive in Stanley, Falkland Islands on Saturday are members and supporters of Rugby Without Borders Foundation, an Argentine non-profit organisation aimed at using sport as a way of reaching out to people and creating friendship, love, trust and peace.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 02:30 UTC

  Over 15.600 mines in 83 fields remain in the Falkland Islands, says UK Defence

  

  Some 83 minefields and suspected hazardous areas remain in the Falkland Islands with over 15.600 mines remaining, which were laid by the Argentine forces during their 74 day occupation of the South Atlantic Islands in 1982.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 02:02 UTC

  Falklands’ pristine stacks and bluffs illustrated by Tony Chater in stamps issue

  

  Illustrations of some of the least accessible spots in the Falkland Islands are featured in the third series of “Stacks and Bluffs” postage stamps, released last week by Pobjoy Mint.

• Monday, March 7th 2011 - 13:43 UTC

  Flying with the Albatross

  

  THE British Royal Navy and the company British International helicopters have been assisting Islander conservationists in vital surveys of the majestic Black-browed albatross in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, March 7th 2011 - 07:31 UTC

  Falklands’ encouraged by ICC will dispute cricket tournament in Costa Rica

  

  Last month Wendell Coppin, the International Cricket Council Regional Development Officer for the Americas, visited the Falklands on a week long trip to help aid the growth of cricket in the Islands.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentina waging a ‘vicious war’ against the Falkland Islands

  

  Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly member Bill Luxton aimed a fierce broadside against Argentine government propaganda and pressure on the Falklands. He was supported by several colleagues from the Legislative Assembly.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 06:30 UTC

  HMS Liverpool, veteran of the Falklands conflict to be decommissioned 2012

  

  HMS Liverpool set sail out of the Mersey city for the last time as her four-day ceremonial visit drew to a close. The Type 42 Destroyer, built by Cammell Laird, was heading north for operational sea training before going on an active deployment in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf later in the year.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 01:38 UTC

  Falklands present at Westminster seminar on Parliamentary practice

  

  Member of the Legislative Assembly Emma Edwards will be representing the Falkland Islands at the 60th Westminster Seminar on Parliamentary Practice and Procedure (March 6/12) hosted by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 04:50 UTC

  Malvinas after all are the Falkland Islands, say Argentine official webs

  

  The Argentine press claimed Friday that the official news agency argentina.gob.ar, which depends from the government’s Mass Media Secretariat, is using in its web presentation Google maps of the country which refer to the South Atlantic archipelago as Falkland Islands and only in brackets (Malvinas).