Tag: Falklands

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 10:29 UTC

  Falklands: outages across television and radio services next Friday, 18 May

  

  Falkland Islands residents of Stanley and surrounding areas are advised that a further outage to TV and Radio services from Sapper Hill and the island wide MW service from Mt William is required.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  Boris Johnson expected in Argentina; homage to Falklands/Malvinas conflict fallen in the agenda?

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expected next week in Argentina for a G20 ministerial meeting and, according to Buenos Aires media, normally well informed, he is scheduled to attend a homage to the fallen in the South Atlantic conflict. This would take place in the framework of the new constructive positive turn for Argentine/UK bilateral relations, which includes cooperation in several fields.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Falklands' police make arrest for suspected drugs offences

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police would like to inform the public that, on the evening of Monday 14 May 2018, an arrest was made at Mount Pleasant Complex in connection with the possession of controlled drugs.

• Monday, May 14th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Falklands' Olympic Games gold medal athlete who competed in 1908 London Games

  

  The only Falkland Islander to compete in the Olympic Games has entered the online version of the Dictionary of Falklands Biography (DFB).

• Monday, May 14th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

  Falklands students on a day off in London visited Archie, the giant squid

  

  Deputy Representative at the Falkland Islands Government office in London, Michael Betts and Public Relations Officer Matt Ware, welcomed five students from Chichester College and three from Peter Symonds College for a day visit to London on Sunday 29th April.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands celebrates birth of Prince Louis donating £5,000 to the Royal Foundation

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has announced that on 3 May 2018, £5,000 was donated to the Royal Foundation in celebration of the birth of His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Falklands Police issues search warrants for suspected drugs offences

  

  The Royal Falkland Islands Police would like to inform the public that, in the early hours of Friday 11 May 2018, three search warrants were issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act. These were executed at three separate addresses in Stanley.

• Thursday, May 10th 2018 - 08:13 UTC

  Story of a Falklands donated Spitfire and its pilot, which crashed in Wales

  

  Remains of one of the ten Spitfires paid for by the people of the Falkland Islands during WWII which was found back in 1979, forty years later led to a search on the incident, the pilot, his family and even possibly an appropriate monument to the 20-year old Sergeant, reports the Shropshire Star.

• Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Falklands ferry terminal works; delays are anticipated

  

  The Falkland Islands Public Works Department Highways Section announced in a release that they will be working around the Port Howard, (West Falkland), ferry terminal from Monday 7 May 2018 for approximately six weeks.

• Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Falklands television and radio services outages on Monday and Tuesday

  

  Residents of the Falkland Islands capital Stanley and surrounding areas are advised that TV and Radio services from Sapper Hill and the MW service from Mt William (island-wide) will be interrupted on Monday 7 May and possibly again on Tuesday 8 May, commencing at around 8am for the duration of daylight hours only.