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More transparency in businesses ownership will be introduced next year

The Falkland Islands Government says it will implement a Beneficial Ownership Register by July 2026. It comes after the UK Government stated its intention to end illicit finance and corruption, both at home and across the Overseas Territories. The...

Confusion on the Falkland Islands Over Status of Starlink’s Broadband

Good news, SpaceX’s global Starlink broadband network is currently listed as finally coming to the poorly served Falkland Islands, which is a British Overseas Territory, sometime in 2025. Bad news, the service is already being used by hundreds of...

Falklands, construction of a new HMS Sheffield, a state of the art Type 26 Frigate

Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 00:07 UTC The Type 26 frigates will be the most advanced warships in the world (Picture: BAE Systems) Construction has begun on the Royal Navy's latest Type 26 frigate, HMS Sheffield, with the first steel being cut in a...

Falkland Stampede 'patriarch' dies at age 83

Photo: Cypress Funeral and Cremation Services Mervin Churchill, the “patriarch of the Falkland Stampede family,” died at age 83 on Sunday. Churchill is remembered as a true community builder who was instrumental in nearly every Falkland project...

Falkland Islands tensions erupt as oil drilling to begin 2027 leaving Argentina red-faced

A public consultation has been approved by Falkland Island residents for offshore oil exploitations just north of the archipelago, yet Argentina remains furious. Oil companies have long aimed to produce crude oil at the Sea Lion field just 220...

Veteran of the Falklands war and the Northern Ireland conflict, Bob Marshall says working on such a "mega" project allows those suffering from PSTD to forget for a time their troubles

Veteran Falklands Kayak Trip begins

8 veterans from CS22 Veteran Expeditions arrived in the Falklands this week for an exciting two week kayaking trip around the Islands. The Cockleshell22 group will start paddling from Whale Bay, around East Falkland to Estancia with occasional...

Starlink services disabled for Falklanders

Starlink users in the Falklands received an email from the company on Wednesday 5th February, notifying them that their services would be discontinued. The email stated they were using the service in an unauthorised territory and that the local...

Falkland Islands tensions erupt as massive £74bn oil field bigger than previously thought

A vast oil field near the Falkland Islands is even larger than originally estimated, with recoverable reserves now valued at an eye-watering £74 billion. The discovery is likely to magnify tensions between Britain and Argentina, which has long...

Falkland Islands at war… with Labour! British territory is set to benefit from huge oil discovery - but government won't provide financial support due to climate commitments

The discovery of a giant oil field in the Falkland Islands has grown even more promising with islanders eager to cash in on the value of their natural resources in spite of the British government's war on fossil fuels. The Sea Lion oil field,...

Falklands Tussac House again delayed and no residents move in until New Year

Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 08:18 UTC The Tussac House project for assisted living The Falkland Islands Public Works Department has announced that the handing over of Tussac House, the sheltered homes project, has been delayed again. The...

Falklands, larger oil reserves at Sea Lion development; independent resource report contracted by operator Navitas

Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 08:45 UTC The hydrocarbons will initially be produced through the redeployed FPSO with a peak production rate of some 55,000 bbls/d. Rockhopper Exploration plc, the oil and gas company with key interests in the North...

General Sir John Waters, cerebral officer during Falklands conflict

Despite having been deputy supreme commander of all Nato forces in Europe (DSACEUR) — the position once held by Field Marshal Montgomery — John Waters was never a household name. In 2022, however, during the Channel 4 documentary The Falklands...

Falkland Islands triumph as British archipelago considers major fish-farming development

The Falkland Islands Government is reportedly considering the potential for developing large-scale commercial fish-farming activities off the South Atlantic archipelago. An in-depth public consultation on a set of proposals for the potential...

Falklands South American Fur Seal Research Project

South American Fur Seals are abundant in Falkland’s waters, feeding on squid and sunbathing on the rocky cliffs of the outer islands. But in the past ten years, they have become more and more interested in the bottom trawl squid fishing that the...

Falklands, public consultation on potential development of large-scale fish-farming

Monday, November 25th 2024 - 09:00 UTC Commercial fish farms in Chile and Scotland The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is in the process of considering the potential for the development of large-scale commercial fish-farming activities in...

Father of immigration judge who ruled Gazan family can stay in Britain under Ukrainian scheme is anti-Israel campaigner who argued Britain should surrender Gibraltar and the Falklands

The father of an immigration judge who ruled that a Gazan family can stay in Britain under the Ukrainian scheme is an anti-Israel campaigner. Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor granted a family of six attempting to leave Gaza the right to live in the UK,...

UKOTs, including Falklands, in SAR workshop with exercise of cruise vessel incident

Thursday, February 13th 2025 - 01:05 UTC The Overseas Territories SAR (OTSAR) Capability Project has been running since 2016 and began with reviews of SAR capabilities within the UK OTs. The annual SAR, workshop for UK Overseas Territories took...

Falkland Islands tensions erupt as Argentine officials hounded over 'Las Malvinas'

Argentine officials in Tierra del Fuego faced a furious backlash from local government employees forced to attend a political rally about the Falkland Islands. The event was organised on Thursday by Walter Vuoto, the mayor of the province's...