Tag: John Fowler

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  The loss of three civilians lives in west Stanley during Royal Navy shelling

  

  In the early hours of June 12th, at 7 Ross Road, to the west of Stanley, three Falkland Islanders, civilians, tragically lost their lives. This was due, not to ‘direct’ Argentine action, but to a computer ‘glitch’ on a Royal Navy frigate that had been shelling Argentine positions.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  A new low for Argentine Falkland Islands' sovereignty claim propagandists

  

  By John Fowler (*) – The selective amnesia of successive Argentine governments never ceases to amaze. Last week, during universal rejoicing in the Falklands that the eleven year-long demining campaign had finally come to a successful conclusion, the Argentine Government was complaining about it in Geneva.

• Friday, October 27th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Some thoughts about Falklands and flying the Union Jack

  

  By John Fowler - It’s no good if the Falkland Islanders just keep on saying that they don’t want to be Argentine; you can’t define yourself in terms of a negative, you must decide what or who you want to be and proclaim it positively.”

• Friday, October 20th 2017 - 06:03 UTC

  A Rose for Peace presented the Falklands by Argentine students

  

  The large number of Argentine visitors to the Falkland Islands this week included pupils of the Don Bosco College in Ensenada. Having spent the first full day of their stay visiting the military cemeteries at Darwin and San Carlos where they paid tribute to the fallen of both sides in 1982, on Monday the group, whose visit was arranged in conjunction with the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, was given a presentation on the Falklands by the FIG Policy Department.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2014 - 19:50 UTC

  Stray sheep not to blame for Ardiles Falklands accident

  

  The suggestion that a stray sheep may have caused the road accident in the Falklands involving former Argentina and Tottenham Hotspur stars, Osvaldo “Ossie” Ardiles and Ricardo Villa was refuted on Tuesday by Ardiles’s son Federico in an interview with Mercopress in Stanley.

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 - 04:01 UTC

  Falklands' war book '1982 and all that' will answer Argentine questions

  

  A book by John Fowler on what it was like to live through the Falkland Islands 1982 war from an Islander’s view has been made available in Argentina Translated from its British version ‘1982 and all that’ which has been available on Amazon for Kindle for some time, ‘1982: Difficult Days in the Falklands’ is soon to be available in Spanish thanks to the publishing house Winograd.

• Monday, March 11th 2013 - 04:30 UTC

  “Fantastic” Falklands’ vehicles rally in support of the referendum and UK

  

  Described as ‘fantastic’ despite the bad weather over 300 vehicles plus motorbikes, quads, old tractors and horse riders flying Falklands flags and Union Jacks turned out on Sunday in Stanley for a march along the sea front and the Liberation Monument in support of the two-day referendum on the Islands future.

• Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Falklands’ referendum: the view from the Islands, “as many as 98% of voters will say Yes”

  

  “We hope, by voting overwhelmingly in favour of remaining British, the rest of the world will understand and support our right to self-determination”. The message is clear in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, in all of Argentina that is calling for sovereignty negotiations with the United Kingdom.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 19:35 UTC

  February 1833: Parallel truths in parallel universes: can that be the only explanation?

  

  By John Fowler - According to the Argentine view of things, the Falkland Islands are Las Islas Malvinas and the capital city is not Stanley, which was founded in 1844, but Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which did not really begin to be a town till 1881 with the establishment of a penal colony there.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 15:39 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Reflections on April 2

  

  By John Fowler - Maybe because the days in the Falklands get noticeably shorter from now on and the onset of winter inevitable, April is nobody's favourite month here. To add to the gathering gloom at this time, hardly a year goes by without some journalist – usually Argentinean – ringing the office to ask how we are 'celebrating' the second of April, which marks the anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982.