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Tag: Falkland Islands

  • Wednesday, August 23rd 2017 - 10:29 UTC

    An option for Falklands? Prototype technology for unearthing minefields in peat soil with fire

    Special teams of deminers working in Falklands' fields clearing them of ordnance

    Engineers have developed prototype technology that uses controlled burning to partially reveal landmines buried in peat soil. The researchers from Imperial College London have developed technology called O-Revealer that ignites peat, causing a smoldering fire that strips the upper layer of soil to reveal the landmines, making it easier to dispose of them.

  • Wednesday, August 23rd 2017 - 09:32 UTC

    Falklands issues coins in recognition of fisheries conservation policies

    The coins are produced by the Pobjoy Mint, on behalf of the Falklands Treasury. The reverse design features the Patagonian toothfish in an eddy of water.

    The government and treasury of the Falkland Islands have issued new coins which recognize 30 years of work conducted by the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department (FIS) to help maintain fish populations around the Islands. FIS, responsible for the sustainable development of fisheries in the Falklands, was established in 1987.

  • Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 - 14:05 UTC

    Falklands commends officers, and Toby, for drug seizure in a trawler

    Corporal Amanda Matthews and Air Dog Toby receives a commendation from Acting Governor Alex Mitham

    The Falklands government and the UK Ministry of Defense held an event to congratulate officers involved in a drug seizure from a trawler. Corporal Amanda Matthews and Customs Officer Matt Jenkins attended Government House on Tuesday night to receive commendations for their recent successful joint operation which resulted in a drug seizure.

  • Monday, August 21st 2017 - 21:02 UTC

    Ten Falklands' students in great performance achieve required points for university

    Students took 20 A Level subjects and achieved 20 A*-C grades, with over a third of the results at grade A or A* said Acting Director of Education Karen Steen

    The Falkland Islands Education Department has congratulated all A Level students on their results, since they have achieved the required points to continue their studies if they wish to.

  • Sunday, August 20th 2017 - 13:47 UTC

    Indian Navy all women team in global tour scheduled to call in Falklands

    INSV Tarini. This is the first-ever circumnavigation of the globe by an all-woman crew from India. The vessel is the 55-foot INSV Tarini

    A six-member women’s team of the Indian Navy will set sail in early September to circumnavigate the globe on the sailing vessel, INSV Tarini. This is the first-ever circumnavigation of the globe by an all-woman crew from India, and one of the calls will take place in the Falkland Islands.

  • Saturday, August 19th 2017 - 10:25 UTC

    Baton’s subpolar stopover in Falklands before Europe

    Children and athletes from every active sports club marked the Baton’s route

    The Commonwealth Games Queens Baton visits all 71 Commonwealth countries and territories on its journey from Buckingham Palace to the host city. In 2018 that is Gold Coast in Australia; one territory is missing from the relay, because it has not been possible to schedule St Helena this year. However several Saints saw and carried the baton in the Falkland Islands, so we have helped a little bit.

  • Saturday, August 19th 2017 - 06:57 UTC

    Falklands' all health and social services sites Smoke Free as of February

    Someone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day can, in just one year, save enough money for two return flights to the UK if they stop smoking.

    The Falkland Islands announced that all Health & Social Services sites are to be Smoke Free from 1st February 2018. Following on from the ban on smoking in any Government property, the Health & Social Services Department are going one step further by banning cigars, cigarettes and any vaping devices from all Health & Social Services sites, starting from the 1st February 2018.

  • Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

    Falklands' Museum incorporates naval journal with accounts of Port Egmont 250 year ago

    Alexandra Shackleton and FIMA Friends legal advisor and member Tom Murdoch. (Pic. G. Bound)

    Two hundred and fifty years on, the story of a bold Falklands naval adventure has been purchased for the local museum in Stanley. Friends of the Falkland Islands Museum and Jane Cameron National Archives (FIMA Friends) executive committee member Alexandra ‘Zaz’ Shackleton was browsing at the regular antiquarian travel book fair at the Royal Geographical Society in London, when she came across a volume that she immediately knew belonged in the Falklands.

  • Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:24 UTC

    Falklands: Outwitting canny fur seals feasting on abundant Loligo

    Seal exclusion device with escape hatch at the top of net

    Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Alexander Arkhipkin explains the habits of fur seals and the efforts undertaken to reduce by-catch in the Loligo fishery. Stocks of Falkland calamari (Loligo) are very prolific this year.

  • Thursday, August 17th 2017 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentine Senate head calls on UK for Falklands/Malvinas discussions

    “The government of Mrs. May should comply with its share of the agreements and sit down to discuss all issues including the Malvinas question”, said Senator Pinedo

    Argentine Senate president Federico Pinedo called on the British government ”to sit down and discuss all issues (of the bilateral agenda) including the Malvinas dispute”, and should also make a greater effort in improving its relations with Latin America, according to a statement from DYN news agency.