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Falklands launches Land Recovery Program consultation to sponsor agriculture and biodiversity

Falklands launches Land Recovery Program consultation to sponsor agriculture and biodiversity

Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:58 UTC The program recognizes the increasing pressures Camp communities and landscapes face from economic uncertainty, climate change, and environmental challenges. The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has launched...

Falkland Islands Cricket team readies for weeklong tour of Costa Rica next March

Falkland Islands Cricket team readies for weeklong tour of Costa Rica next March

Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:15 UTC Members of the Falklands Cricket team displayed the Costa Rica tour kit and thanked the sponsors for contributing to promote cricket and the Falkland Islands Falkland Islands and Costa Rica are pleased to...

Trump’s trade war tariffs may be a gut punch – but they may have left Britain in a surprisingly good position

Trump’s trade war tariffs may be a gut punch – but they may have left Britain in a surprisingly good position

TO see how markets have reacted to Donald Trump’s declaration of trade war you would have thought no government had ever thought of imposing tariffs before. There seems to be a growing idea that the world is heading back to the 1930s when...

Donald Trump’s tariffs jar the U.S. stock market, worry consumers

Donald Trump’s tariffs jar the U.S. stock market, worry consumers

NEW YORK — Financial markets around the world are reeling Thursday morning following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it. The S&P 500 was down 3.3% in early...

Oil Seismic Explorations and Their Impact on the Loligo Squid in the South Atlantic

Oil Seismic Explorations and Their Impact on the Loligo Squid in the South Atlantic

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 21, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In recent years, there has been a concerning decline in catches of Loligo gahi squid in the waters around the Falkland Islands, says Fundacion Agustina Lerena. This species, essential...

Javier Milei is deluded about the Falklands

Javier Milei is deluded about the Falklands

Javier Milei might be a Thatcherite economically, but when it comes to the Falklands he’s about as Thatcherite as a bunch of striking miners. In a speech this week to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Falklands war, Milei announced that he would...

Milei backs self-determination for Falkland Islanders: ‘We hope one day they will vote with their feet’

Milei backs self-determination for Falkland Islanders: ‘We hope one day they will vote with their feet’

Javier Milei has overturned Argentina’s historic claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and acknowledged the right of the “Malvinenses” — as he recognized the archipelago’s inhabitants — to choose their nationality. On Veterans and Fallen...

Exactly what havoc Trump’s tariffs will wreak on UK economy as Keir admits ‘there WILL be an impact’

Exactly what havoc Trump’s tariffs will wreak on UK economy as Keir admits ‘there WILL be an impact’

LAST night Donald Trump unveiled the biggest shake up in global trade since the Second World War. What the US President called "Liberation Day" and one of the most important days in American history was also a day of reckoning for how countries...

Trump sparks trade war with huge tariffs; 10% for Argentina

Trump sparks trade war with huge tariffs; 10% for Argentina

US President Donald Trump ignited a potentially ruinous global trade war Wednesday as he slapped 10-percent tariffs on imports from around the world and harsh extra levies on key trading partners. Holding up a chart of the sweeping measures in the...

How two amateur radio enthusiasts secretly passed soldiers' 'I am safe' messages during Falklands War

How two amateur radio enthusiasts secretly passed soldiers' 'I am safe' messages during Falklands War

At the height of the Falklands war, the unlikely friendship of two amateur radio enthusiasts 8,000 miles apart allowed more than 50 soldiers the opportunity to get messages home to their loved ones. Bob McLeod, a ham radio operator, made history...

Trump tariffs impact uninhabited Antarctic islands in trade move

Trump tariffs impact uninhabited Antarctic islands in trade move

(MENAFN) In an unusual twist, the Trump administration's latest tariffs have swept up some of the world's most remote locations—including two tiny, icebound Antarctic islands inhabited solely by penguins and seals. Heard and McDonald Islands, an...

Falklands, summary findings from salmon-farming scoping exercise

Falklands, summary findings from salmon-farming scoping exercise

Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 05:31 UTC FIG ran a scoping exercise from 04 November to 01 December 2024, to establish what additional information and evidence the public and stakeholder groups want to see The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is...

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2025

Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...

The world’s tiniest nations targeted in Trump’s trade war

The world’s tiniest nations targeted in Trump’s trade war

For a country he recently said “no one has ever heard of”, President Donald Trump singled out Lesotho in southern Africa for some pretty rough treatment in his long list of “reciprocal” tariffs. The “mountain kingdom” of 2.3mn people, which is...

The world’s tiniest nations targeted in Trump’s trade war

The world’s tiniest nations targeted in Trump’s trade war

For a country he recently said “no one has ever heard of”, President Donald Trump singled out Lesotho in southern Africa for some pretty rough treatment in his long list of “reciprocal” tariffs. The “mountain kingdom” of 2.3mn people, which is...

Trump tariffs target remote, uninhabited islands with no U.S. trade

Trump tariffs target remote, uninhabited islands with no U.S. trade

National security analyst Hal Kempfer joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to highlight the national security implications of President Trump's tariff announcement. President Donald Trump’s far-reaching new tariffs are going farther than many expected...

India’s reciprocal tariff adjusted to 26% in revised US trade document

India’s reciprocal tariff adjusted to 26% in revised US trade document

White House has issued a revised annex clarifying the reciprocal tariffs imposed on several nations, including India, resolving earlier inconsistencies in the figures. According to the updated document released on Friday, India’s tariff rate has...

From Falklands to Bermuda: the new Deputy Governor

From Falklands to Bermuda: the new Deputy Governor

Created: Apr 03, 2025 03:29 PM (Updated: Apr 03, 2025 03:37 PM) Dave Morgan has been announced as the next Deputy Governor of Bermuda (Photograph supplied) A senior diplomat has been announced in the role of Deputy Governor of Bermuda. Andrew...

Semiconductors exempt as US declares national emergency to impose tariffs Business news | April 3, 2025 The US government has declared a national emergency in order to impose tariffs on almost all items entering the country on Saturday. However…

Semiconductors exempt as US declares national emergency to impose tariffs Business news | April 3, 2025 The US government has declared a national emergency in order to impose tariffs on almost all items entering the country on Saturday. However…

The US government has declared a national emergency in order to impose tariffs on almost all items entering the country on Saturday. However semiconductors and certain critical raw materials for making chips and batteries are exempt. The chart of...

Falklands unhappy over OneWeb

Falklands unhappy over OneWeb

Eutelsat’s share price meltdown continues and not helped by a group of unhappy residents of the UK’s Falkland Islands. Local reports say that the Falkland Islands government “wants its money back” from an agreement which it entered into with local...

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