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• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 17:26 UTC

  Falklands’ capital Stanley expands: 34 new housing plots for residents

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has announced support for a new phase of work, which should help to alleviate the housing shortage in Stanley. Lack of home ownership, especially for those on lower incomes has been a problem in the capital for many years.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 16:37 UTC

  Falklands Rockhopper contracts further drilling of four wells

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc announced on Thursday a further drilling of four wells offshore the Falkland Islands. The first of them, 14/10-6, will be the third appraisal well on the Sea Lion feature where the discovery of oil at commercial rate has been confirmed.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 15:14 UTC

  Rockhopper considers options to extract and store oil from Falklands’ Sea Lion well

  

  Rockhopper Exploration is looking at some form of floating platform as the likeliest option to produce its Sea Lion oil and gas discovery offshore the Falkland Islands. But the company wants to complete delineation of the field before progressing to the front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage, reports Offshore.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 07:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Exploration plc PR

  

  Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce results for the twelve months ended 31 March 2011.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 02:43 UTC

  “Self determination and self sufficiency”, Falklands message to the world on Liberation Day

  

  “Self-determination and self-sufficiency” is the Falkland Islands message to the world on the day the Islands commemorate the 29th anniversary of its liberation, said the Falklands’ government representative in London Sukey Cameron, who added Argentina continues with its campaign to claim sovereignty and disrupt the Falklands economy.

• Friday, June 10th 2011 - 00:25 UTC

  Falklands tells OAS sovereignty is “non negotiable”, but seek “neighbourly relations” with Argentina

  

  The Falkland Islands elected government responded to an Argentine inspired declaration from the Organization of American States, OAS, saying that the Falklands have “a right to self determination” and fully supports the UK government’s resolute position that “the issue of sovereignty is non negotiable”.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2011 - 21:08 UTC

  One fresh face in the Falkland Islands by-election line up

  

  At least four candidates will stand for election at the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly by-election (Stanley constituency) on June 23; only one of which has never taken up a place in former Legislative Assemblies.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 13:10 UTC

  Falklands/Argentina argument “begins and ends with self determination”

  

  The basic argument between the Falkland Islands and Argentina “begins and ends with self determination”, underlined Martin Longden Deputy Director of Overseas Territories in an interview with Tony Curran published in the Falklands’ weekly Penguin News.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 08:02 UTC

  Falkland Oil and Gas Limited Press Release

  

  FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands announces further progress on its rig contract negotiations and certain changes to its licence arrangements.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 23:15 UTC

  Falklands’ 2010 land-based tourism ‘surprisingly good’ as opposed to cruise ships

  

  Using the United Nations definition of tourism, 2010 was a surprisingly good year for land-based, as opposed to cruise ship tourism in the Falkland Islands, with numbers up from 4,241 in 2009 to 6,017 in 20010.