Tag: Falkland Islands

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  Falklands receives port of Vigo experts to address port potential and development

  

  A delegation of two technicians from the Spanish Port of Vigo are visiting the Falkland Islands with the aim of offering their informed opinions on potential port development. The Falklands has a close business relationships with the port as a result of long term joint business ventures with Spanish fishing companies, and the new Falklands longliner CFL Hunter was built there.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  “Silver Cloud” cancels Antarctica cruise and Falklands call following engine failure

  

  The failure of a fuel pump and engine left the “Silver Cloud” adrift as it headed toward Antarctica on November 20, 2017. Power was reportedly restored to the ship in about an hour, permitting the cruise vessel to return to Puerto Madryn in the South Atlantic for repairs.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  Falklands' newly elected Legislative Assembly members receive parliamentary training

  

  A delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, CPA, is currently visiting the Falkland Islands to provide Parliamentary training to the newly elected Legislative Assembly as part of a joint program agreed ahead of the election.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2017 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands' Concordia Bay Ferry service rescheduled due to maintenance repairs

  

  The Falkland Islands Government and Workboat Service Ltd, WSL, the company which owns the ferry linking East and West Falkland, have informed that the service will be suspended for an estimated two weeks next month, because the Concordia Bay has to undergo maintenance repairs in Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Britain sends special highly skilled unit SPAG, to help with the submarine search

  

  Britain has increased efforts to help find the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in the vast stormy South Atlantic. HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol ship, is now in the search area where the submarine last made contact on Wednesday.

• Monday, November 20th 2017 - 11:19 UTC

  Ex Chilean Junta member and supporter of the UK effort during the Falklands conflict has died

  

  Fernando Matthei Chile's ex commander of the Air Force and member of the military Junta, led by Augusto Pinchet, died on Sunday at the age of 92. The former pilot, was the father of Evelyn Matthei, who run and lost against Michelle Bachelet in the 2013 presidential election and since 2016 is mayor of Providencia, one of the main districts fo the capital Santiago.

• Saturday, November 18th 2017 - 18:36 UTC

  Ice patrol HMS Protector joins the search for the missing Argentine submarine

  

  The Royal Navy has deployed ice patrol ship HMS Protector to help search for an Argentine submarine that went missing in the South Atlantic with 44 people on board. Contact with the Argentine military sub ARA San Juan was lost three days ago, Wednesday.

• Saturday, November 18th 2017 - 09:25 UTC

  International operation to rescue Argentine submarine lost in the South Atlantic

  

  The Argentine navy has stepped up its search of the South Atlantic for a submarine with 44 crew on board that remains missing two days after its last communication on Wednesday. ARA San Juan was in the western south Atlantic some 432 kilometers from the Patagonian coast close to the San Jorge Gulf, when it sent its last signal on Wednesday midday, naval spokesman Enrique Balbi said on Friday.

• Friday, November 17th 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands' ice hockey team will play a Canadian side that arrives with a letter of support from PM Trudeau

  

  On November 18 & 19, Costa Rica’s first ever international ice hockey tournament will take place in the hills of Heredia, where it is much cooler than in the Central Valley, at the Castillo Country Club, home of the Castillo Knights.

• Friday, November 17th 2017 - 07:40 UTC

  Falklands' newly elected Legislative Assembly anticipates lively debate

  

  Five of the eight members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, were elected for the first time only three working days before their first formal appearance in the Town Hall on Monday morning. With this in mind, the business to be brought before the chamber is normally routine and unlikely to require much in the way of discussion.