Tag: Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  New Falklands port gets green light to proceed as part of ambitious infrastructure investment program

  

  Last Friday 10 September 2021, the Falkland Islands port project received ExCo (Executive Council) approval to proceed to Stage One B, Detailed Design, which will take place over the next 13 months. Stage One A began in July 2020 and involved an extensive series of stakeholder workshops, surveys, demand studies and environmental assessments in order to produce the initial Concept Design for the new facility.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Project with Falklands' SAERI to safeguard South Georgia’s Blue Belt

  

  Following a horizon scanning exercise that identified marine invasive species as a key threat, the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is embarking on a marine bio-security project with the Falkland Islands based South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI).

• Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 12:13 UTC

  RRS James Clark Ross has been sold to the Ukrainian Antarctic Scientific Center

  

  This is the second time that a UK research asset has transferred to Ukrainian research colleagues – the first being the transfer in 1996 of the former Faraday station that is now known as Vernadsky.

• Thursday, August 19th 2021 - 06:03 UTC

  Spanish trawlers believe Falklands is heading for a record catch of Loligo

  

  The fleet of trawlers from Vigo. Spain operating in the Falkland Islands waters are most enthusiastic about the current second squid season and believe Loligo landings already totaling 72,200 tons according to records from Falklands' Natural Resources Department could anticipate, if catch rates continue, a record similar to that of the best year back in 1995, with 98,409 tons.

• Thursday, August 19th 2021 - 05:04 UTC

  Falklands receive batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines; fishing vessels crews immunized

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has received a batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, supplied by the UK government. These 960 doses arrived on 12 August and are being rolled out as part of the ongoing vaccination programme which began in February.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands: Unexploded landmine disposed of at Yorke Bay, close to Stanley

  

  The Falkland Islands government has confirmed that overnight on Monday 16 August, the Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from the Joint Operations Command Centre at Mount Pleasant Complex was contacted by the Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP) regarding possible unexploded ordnance at Yorke Bay.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 05:32 UTC

  “I will use force to defend the Falklands”, Boris Johnson to the UK media

  

  The United Kingdom confirmed that it will maintain a military presence in the Falkland Islands, whose sovereignty is claimed by Argentina, to “protect it from state and non-state threats,” according to an advance of the strategic review of security, defense and foreign policy that prime minister Boris Johnson will present this Tuesday, the first after the departure of the European bloc.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers want “Malvinas issue” to become decisive in allowing candidates to run for office

  

  A group of Argentine Senators has entered a bill whereby candidates for any electoral office must acknowledge the 1994 Constitutional reform which made the claim over the Malvinas Islands “a permanent and inalienable” goal.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Beatriz Sarlo: Falklands belong to the Islanders, despite useless nationalism myths

  

  “Nationalism is a useless myth, certainly not the way to address current and real problems”, underlined the historian and political analyst Beatriz Sarlo who last week triggered a storm in Argentina by reiterating that the Falkland Islands are a British territory, belong to the Kelpers and remind her of southern Scotland.

• Saturday, August 7th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  Falklands reviews Infectious Diseases Regulations and Directions, effective Sunday 8 August

  

  The existing requirements of the Infectious Diseases Control (Coronavirus, Quarantine) Regulations 2021, together with the Directions in force under these regulations, were recently reviewed ahead of their expiration on 8 August 2021.