Tag: Falklands economic

• Thursday, December 25th 2014 - 22:27 UTC

  Unusually abundant 2014 for Falkland Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly describes 2014 as a “bumper year,” for the Islands' trade and industry.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Falklands' prosperity and economic boom surprises visiting Brazilian delegation

  

  Visiting Brazilian political advisor and environmentalist Eduardo Viola emphatically expressed support for the Falkland Islands’ right of self-determination during a press conference in Stanley with other visiting Brazilian colleagues, reports this week's edition of Penguin News.

• Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 05:35 UTC

  Falklands’ rights and sovereignty

  

  By Sir Peter Westmacott (*) - Where in the world can you celebrate Margaret Thatcher Day with five kinds of wild penguins? Nowhere but in the Falkland Islands, a windswept archipelago in the South Atlantic that’s about the same area as Connecticut but has a population of only 3.100. This weekend, these small islands with a big personality face a momentous choice: a referendum to decide their political future.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  Opening the Falklands to Latin America; the testimony of a Guatemala journalist

  

  Luis Alberto Velasquez is a journalist with the Guatemalan newspaper La Prensa Libre and recently visited the Falkland Islands with a group of journalists from Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the guest post below Luis Alberto shares some thoughts about his recent trip.