Rockhopper Announces Flow Test Update - Sea Lion 14/10-2 discovery well - (06.09.2010)
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, has announced that the Ocean Guardian drilling rig is at the location of the Sea Lion 14/10-2 discovery well and that operations to carry out a flow test on the Sea Lion main and lower fans are underway. [More...]
Category: Falklands | Mineral Resources

DIRECTOR OF MINERAL RESOURCES REPORT FOR FRIDAY, 27 AUGUST 2010: - (05.09.2010)
BHP Billiton (BHPB) have completed their Toroa well (61/05-1) in the South Falkland Basin and the rig has been re-located in the North Falkland Basin to drill further wells for Rockhopper Exploration [More...]
Category: Falklands | Mineral Resources

St Helena - Public Health (Amendment) Bill, 2010 - (05.09.2010)
A Draft Public Health (Amendment) Bill 2010 is being published today Wednesday, 1 September 2010, for public consultation before considering its introduction into law. [More...]
Category: St Helena | Health

St Helena - Training for Official Fish Inspectors - (05.09.2010)
In May/June this year, Andre Herne and Kevin Youde from the Environmental Health Section of the Public Health and Social Services Department travelled to Cape Town to participate in a 17-day training [More...]
Category: S.Atlantic | Fisheries

Falklands Say Farewell to His Excellency the Governor Mr Alan Huckle and Mrs Huckle - (05.09.2010)
His Excellency the Governor and Mrs Huckle will leave the Falkland Islands on Saturday 18th September 2010 at the end of the Governor’s tour of duty. [More...]
Category: Falklands | Heritage

St Helena - ExCo Report No. 52 – 24th August 2010 - (30.08.2010)
This was my first meeting of ExCo since returning to Island nearly two weeks ago and having the honour to be sworn in as Acting Governor. [More...]
Category: St Helena | Legal

St Helena - Appointment of Acting Attorney General and Locum Crown Counsel - (30.08.2010)
Following the departure of the Attorney General, Mr Ken Baddon on overseas leave and, in accordance with sections 95 and 118(3) of the St Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha Constitution, Mr Franci [More...]
Category: St Helena | Legal

St Helena - Derek Henry Joins OCS Team - (30.08.2010)
Derek Henry has joined the Office of the Chief Secretary’s (OCS) team as Manager of Central Administration with effect from today, 23 August 2010. [More...]
Category: St Helena | Education

Falklands - Summary of Executive Council Meeting 19 August 2010 - (30.08.2010)
MLA’s Jan Cheek, Roger Edwards and myself attended this Executive Council which was fairly lengthy, lasting around four hours. [More...]
Category: Falklands | Legal

Falklands - PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY, 17 AUGUST 2010 - (30.08.2010)
A public meeting was held in the Court and Assembly Chamber of the Town Hall on Tuesday, 17 August 2010 at 1700hrs. [More...]
Category: Falklands | Business News

Join in the Falklands Facebook conversation! - (30.08.2010)
The Falkland Islands officially joined the social network phenomena Facebook in October 2009 and we’re delighted to announce that the dedicated tourist board page [More...]
Category: Falklands | Tourism/Travel

MEETING OF THE ASCENSION ISLAND COUNCIL, 30 JULY 2010 - (12.08.2010)
The Ascension Island Council held a formal meeting on Friday 30 July at 2pm in the Council Chamber. [More...]
Category: Ascension | Gen - Government

“Partnership for Progress and Prosperity” Britain and Ascension Island - Cyril Leo - (12.08.2010)
Ascension, on the whole, has been good for both my family and me, and therefore being a member of the Administrator’s Forum and later the Island Council was primarily my way of putting something back [More...]
Category: Ascension | Business News

SHOULD CHRISTIAN VALUES BE CHOPPED FROM ST HELENA’S CONSTITUTION? - (21.10.2009)
A recent debate in the Foreign Affairs Committee about the Constitutions of British Overseas Territories has sparked interest in territories in the South Atlantic. [More...]
Category: Tristan | Legal

Jobless and Poverty Rates are key to Economic Recovery - (12.08.2009)
Policy makers in the US Federal Reserve Bank are sitting down to discuss – amongst other things – interest rates, which are expected to remain the same at near zero percent. Also on the agenda, couch [More...]
Category: All | Business News

ARGENTINE CLAIMS TO FALKLANDS SEABED CONTAINS NOTHING NEW - (25.04.2009)
Both Argentina and the United Kingdom are claiming a vast area of seabed from South America to the Antarctic in their latest bids for control of the South Atlantic. [More...]
Category: Falklands | Business News

DIRECTOR OF MINERALS AND AGRICULTURE REPORT FOR MARCH/APRIL - (20.04.2009)
Borders & Southern Petroleum Limited (BSP), who successfully completed environmental surveys in their licensed area by contracting Benthic Solutions Limited to gather seabed samples in late 2008, are [More...]
Category: S.Atlantic | Mineral Resources

A Falklands Poem - (13.11.2007)
Gus Hales tells it like it is in a moving poem recited at the Cathedral in Stanley on Remembrance Sunday. Photo (c) J. Brock (FINN) The Sama'82 Standard [More...]
Category: Falklands | Heritage

HYDROCARBONS WEEKEND RECORD: 11 AND 12 NOVEMBER 2006 - (12.11.2006)
Several of Bolivia’s companies and agencies that have benefited from the May 1st nationalisation of hydrocarbons are about to give a school bonus to approximately 1,200,000 children. The $25.00 (200 [More...]
Category: S.Atlantic | Mineral Resources

Postcode Not So New For Tristan - (10.08.2005)
One of the nice things about having a Tristanian working for SARTMA is that the record can be set straight about various things, including the Island’s postcode. TDCU 1ZZ has been available for at le [More...]
Category: Tristan | Business News