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Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:56:00 GMTNigel Phillips CBE from the Falklands to governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Mr. Nigel Phillips CBE, currently governor of the Falkland Islands has been appointed Governor of St Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha in succession to Dr. Philip Rushbrook. Mr. Phillips will take up his appointment in Au...
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 21:52:00 GMT
Falklands newsman would like an apology for 1982
While Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero wrote for The Guardian last week that his country posed a threat to no one, Graham Bound, founder of Port Stanley's Penguin News, told the Spanish newswire service EFE that th...
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:08:00 GMT
Falklands’ MLA Roger Spink: ”We identify with Ukraine because in 1982 we were invaded by a dictator that ruled a neighboring country”
Last Saturday, April 2nd, marked the 40th anniversary of the Argentine landing in the Falklands / Malvinas Islands, which led to war with the United Kingdom. In this framework, Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin interviewed Rogert S...
Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:55:00 GMT
Falklands' people have rights, but Argentina's 'cruel' attitude creates the feeling “war has not gone”
Hugo Alconada Mon is a prestigious Argentine journalist, and lawyer, who has written several books, besides belonging to the international consortium of investigative journalists which among other things was involved in exposin...
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:58:00 GMT
Argentine President praises fortitude of 1982 war veterans
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday delivered the main speech during the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the Puerto Argentino / Port Stanley landing which triggered the South Atlantic armed conflict with th...
Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:41:00 GMT
Malvinas meant the end of the "military party" - Argentine VP stresses
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa presided over Congress' ceremony Saturday marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands / Malvinas war.
Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:06:00 GMT
A photographic exhibition commemorates the Falklands conflict 40 years later
April 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands War, a 74-day conflict fought over the Falkland Islands. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust is commemorating this anniversary through a photographic exhibition...
Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:59:00 GMT
“The saddest page of history between Argentina and Britain”, Ambassador Hayes
Kirsty Hayes, current British ambassador in Argentina wrote a column, published in Buenos Aires main daily, La Nacion pointing out that April 2nd was the beginning of the saddest page of the wide history of relations between Ar...
Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:29:00 GMT
Punta Arenas satisfied with 2021/22 cruise season, “we successfully managed to re launch activities”
Next Tuesday a cruise vessel will be calling at Puerto Williams in Chile officially marking the end of the 2021/22 cruise season in that country, which local authorities from Punta Arenas consider very satisfactory, given the a...
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:59:00 GMT
Falklands' war vivid frontline sketches by Linda Kitson who marched alongside the troops
The National Memorial Arboretum, in Staffordshire, has opened a new free exhibition featuring frontline sketches of the Falklands War by Linda Kitson who was appointed as the official war artist by the Imperial War Museum.