Tag: Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands or Malvinas? Market-based referendum proposal

  

  By Steve Hank (*) – On August 4, Argentina, the world’s biggest deadbeat, announced that it had reached a deal with its creditors on its US$ 65 billion worth of defaulted debt. The next day, the United Nations Decolonization Committee — the C24 — unanimously passed a resolution urging the United Kingdom and Argentina to resolve their differences over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. Or, are they the Malvinas?

• Monday, August 10th 2020 - 18:03 UTC

  Falklands elected government rejects point blank Argentina's threatening and bullying tactics

  

  The Falkland Islands elected Government on Monday publicly expressed its disappointment with the Argentine government regarding its determined intent to escalate their sovereignty claim over the Islands and continue harassing the people of the Falklands. In response to that attitude Gilbert House, seat of the government elected by the people of the Falklands, in democratic elections, has made the following release:

• Friday, July 31st 2020 - 22:02 UTC

  Falkands: Successful repatriation flight to Punta Arenas

  

  The repatriation flight organised by the Falkland Islands Government arrived this morning, 31 July 2020, from Punta Arenas, Chile returning two Falkland Island residents to the Islands, and departing with 30 passengers on-board.

• Friday, July 24th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina asks Uruguay on Falklands' flights information which allegedly land in Carrasco airport

  

  The government of President Alberto Fernandez thanked Uruguay for supporting Argentina's sovereignty Malvinas Islands' claim during the latest Mercosur summit but also asked for information on flights to the Islands that land in Carrasco airport.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Falklands' pub incident: NZ longliner crew members arrested; Magistrate court sentencing July 27

  

  Falkland Islands' Justices of the Peace last week remanded three individuals in custody after they entered guilty pleas for charges of violent disorder. Sonny Ball, Samuel Goldsworthy, and Chassy Duncan appeared at the Summary Court after they were involved in a serious incident on the evening of Monday 29 June.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 06:56 UTC

  Funding boost for BAS space weather monitoring

  

  Space weather research at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) received a funding boost of around £2M from the SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) program.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 10:15 UTC

  Florencia Kirchner's “nanny” in Cuba rewarded with Argentine embassy in UK

  

  Javier Figueroa, currently head of the Argentine embassy in Cuba has been appointed as the next ambassador in the United Kingdom, and according to Clarin is an expert on Malvinas affairs. His time in Havana coincided with Cristina Fernandez daughter Florencia Kirchner medical internment, which impeded her from travelling back to Argentina.

• Sunday, June 14th 2020 - 14:32 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas, the priority of Argentina/UK relations, Felipe Solá

  

  Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá anticipated that the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be the priority in relations with the United Kingdom, and to protect the South Atlantic fisheries, fines have to be much harsher since now they are “ridiculous” low.

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 15:40 UTC

  Falklands marks 38th anniversary of liberation from Argentine occupation in 1982

  

  To mark the anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation in 1982, the following program has been arranged by Gilbert House for Sunday 14 June 2020.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  End of Antarctic summer season: BAS staff and construction teams finally make it back to the UK

  

  Almost a month after deciding on the repatriation operation, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research and support teams are returning from Antarctica to UK after a 20-day sea voyage onboard a charter ship and the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Clark Ross. On Saturday the MS Hebridean Sky arrived at Portsmouth International, and this Tuesday RRS James Clark Ross is expected at Harwich Port.