Back in the olden days when I first started attending public meetings for Penguin News, it was immediately apparent that the most powerful lobbying group in the Islands, the Chamber of Commerce, essentially had the field to themselves. Indeed, election campaigns still have hustings just for them, which is such a weird thing for candidates to agree to.
ESTHER Bertram and Nuala Knight made history on Tuesday when they became the first Falklands residents to swim across Falkland Sound. The dedicated pair have been training relentlessly for the cold 4.3km swim which was intended to be West to East but at the last moment became East to West due to unexpected easterly winds they told Penguin News this week.
CONVERSATIONS with LATAM are still ongoing regarding the resumption of the weekly Falkland Islands/ Brazil flight.
IN a report on the National Stud Flock, Director of Natural Resources, Dr Andrea Clausen said that wool sales continue to be slow with few offers received and those that have come in being too far off AWEX to accept. Wool is being held in the hope of market improvement.
HOSPITAL Inspectors inspecting the KEM Hospital in Stanley Falkland Islands do not have any serious safety concerns about the services that they have reviewed, members of the team told Penguin News this week.
FREYA (11) the daughter of Falkland Islander Russell Evans and Cate Deakin Evans is currently playing Irish actress Saoirse Ronan’s character as a child in her new movie The Outrun.
