Tag: Falkland Islands

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 07:55 UTC

  Name of remains at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery 106th grave released

  

  A 19-year-old conscript soldier, and builder in his home province of Cordoba, Ramon Angel Cabrera, is the name of the 106th Argentine combatant whose remains buried in the Falkland Islands has been identified.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

  Falklands attend UK OT's Joint Ministerial Council and reception at Buckingham Palace

  

  A delegation from the Falklands attended the UK Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council this week. This is the 20th meeting of the Leaders and Representatives from the UK Overseas Territories and Ministers of Her Majesty’s Government.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentina announces identification on 106th combatant buried in Falklands

  

  Remains of the 106th Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands has been fully identified, announced on Thursday Argentina's Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj. The Argentine official said the name of the newly identified soldier will be released on Friday on request of the family who wished a day of intimacy, after 36 years of waiting news from their loved one.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:08 UTC

  Brigadier Nick Sawyer, new Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands

  

  The new Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands, (CBFSAI), is Brigadier Nick Sawyer. Brigadier Sawyer commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1994 and has served in many different countries, including the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cyprus and Congo.

• Thursday, December 6th 2018 - 12:37 UTC

  Captain Castagnari's remains arrive in Río Cuarto - son thankful to Falklanders

  

  The remains of Argentine pilot Luis Darío José Castagnari, who died in combat during the 1982 Falklands War, arrived at his hometown of Río Cuarto in the province of Córdoba Wednesday afternoon.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Anniversary ceremony of the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands

  

  Falkland Islands will commemorate the 8th December 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands with a talk on Wednesday and a full program next Saturday. This Wednesday at the Historic Dockyard Museum, David Bailey will be giving a talk on the Battle of Colonel, and of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Theresa May in Buenos Aires: good and bad news, Falklands and the Brexit deal

  

  A few minutes before midnight Friday, Buenos Aires time, a Royal Air Force transport with Prime Minister Theresa May landed at Ezeiza airport. Mrs May is the first serving UK prime minister to visit the capital Buenos Aires, and the second to travel to Argentina, after Tony Blair in 2001.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 05:52 UTC

  Falklands voice dismay and praise for second commercial flight

  

  The proposed second airline service between the Falklands and South America with a once a month stopover in Argentina, drew both strongly voiced concerns and praise at a public meeting held on Wednesday evening in Stanley. Worried citizens suggested Argentina might manipulate Islanders by threatening to interrupt the link to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the longer term.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 19:22 UTC

  Consensus or Chaos in the G20 Communiqué?

  

  By Scott Squires (*)“This article was originally published on the Argentina newsletter The Essential, by The Bubble News Inc. on November 29, 2018”. Ahead of any diplomatic summit, staffers, organizers and aides put in the countless hours of thankless grunt work necessary to make international diplomacy happen.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Sir Alan Duncan praises agreement on Falklands' second commercial link with the region

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Sir Alan Duncan praised as historic the UK/Argentina agreement on a second commerical flight between the Falklands and the region.