Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Falklands: April sun outages with disruption to satellite reception

  

  The Falkland Islands have been advised by British Forces Broadcasting Services, that during April a series of sun outages which will cause disruption to satellite dish reception across the Falklands.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentine minister refers to Malvinas as Falklands, and triggers a political storm

  

  Argentina's Defense minister has sparked a political storm after appearing to imply the Falkland Islands are British. Oscar Aguad has been accused by the Buenos Aires media of suggesting that the Islands were not part of Argentine territory.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  Falklands included in Italy's Edison divesting of its oil and gas unit

  

  Italian energy group Edison, part of French utility EDF, is preparing the sale of its oil and gas unit, the latest power producer to abandon fossil fuels to focus on its retail business, four industry sources said, and quoted by Reuters. Its oil and gas unit includes interests in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

  

  Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 07:53 UTC

  Falklands launches Plan outlining the Islands 2018/2022 growth and prosperity targets

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has published The Islands Plan 2018-2022, which sets out its ambitions for improving the prosperity, health and wealth of people across the Falklands over the next four years.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Atlas A400M replaces Hercules at Falklands' Mount Pleasant Complex

  

  The Atlas A400M arrived in the Falkland Islands last week. Having completed the 20 hour journey from the UK, A400M touched down at Mount Pleasant Complex on Tuesday afternoon, a week ago.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Falklands' Loligo squid “doing well” in first month of the fishery

  

  Twenty thousand tons of Loligo squid have been caught during the first month of the fishery, so it is “doing well,” the Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Sasha Arkhipkin confirmed to Penguin News during the last week of March.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

  

  As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 17:31 UTC

  Falklands' lawmaker concern over capital program delivery

  

  Falkland Islands' Member of Legislative Assembly Roger Spink has expressed concern about the shortfall in achieving the objectives of the capital program for 17/18.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Moscow and Falklands' war: “ironically the Soviet Union came on the side of anti communist Argentina”

  

  Sputnik, the official Russian news agency has recalled the 1982 South Atlantic conflict on the 36th anniversary, and offers an interesting interpretation of events previous to the war, the fighting itself and prospects for the future, making emphasis on the overall world scenario at the time.