Falkland Islands
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:42:00 GMTFalklands receives first batch of 3,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
The Falkland Islands Government has welcomed the delivery of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday 1 February 2021. Upon arrival the vaccines were carefully offloaded from the South Atlantic Airbridge and were transported by...
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:41:00 GMTFalkland Islands' vaccination rollout begins 8 February on a priority list
The Falkland Islands' Executive Council on Monday afternoon approved plans for the Falkland Islands Covid-19 vaccination rollout. The two-phased approach has been developed by KEMH and largely follows the approach recommended b...
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:11:00 GMTFalklands Latam's links to Chile and Brazil suspended until June
The Falkland Islands Government can confirm that commercial air links with both Chile and Brazil will remain suspended for a further three months until 29 June 2021.
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:21:00 GMTLufthansa Airbus A350 en route to Falklands, on its longest non-stop flight
This Sunday, January 31, an Airbus A350-900 takes off on the longest non-stop flight in Lufthansa's history under flight number LH2574: 13,700 kilometers from Hamburg to the Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:40:00 GMTFalklands: access to MPC remains restricted for fourteen days
The government of the Falkland Islands and officials from Mount Pleasant Complex held on Sunday an extraordinary meeting and decided that access to the Complex will remain restricted for the next fourteen days given the sanitar...
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:03:00 GMTAn enriching year for Falklands Biography Dictionary
2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 02:30:00 GMTThe first Pitaluga to arrive in the Falklands: 1838
The 1851 census noted Andreas Pintaluga as a gaucho. The son of Benito and Celestina he was born in Gibraltar in 1822.
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:40:00 GMTFalklands new port will require 900,000 tons of stone
Falkland Island lawmaker, MLA Roger Edwards, portfolio holder for Public Works spoke about the ongoing project for the new port to replace FIPASS, (Falklands Interim Port and Storage System) and the resources it will require, a...
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:56:00 GMTFalklands‘ sovereignty: in UN letter, UK makes clear to Argentina its historical and legal position
Last 14 January, the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations addressed a letter to the Secretary-General. The letter, in accordance with instructions received from the UK Government, was to refer to the le...
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:30:00 GMTFalklands new ITQ system, motivates launch of new joint venture, Polar Seafish
Two Falkland Islands companies, Seaview and Seafish, announced the formation of a new joint venture fishing company named Polar Seafish Ltd – a merger of Polar Ltd and Nova Seafish Ltd.