THE Falkland Islands Government has responded to media speculation concerning the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and a possible link to blood clots, saying that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) has, “confirmed that the vaccine is safe, effective and has saved thousands of lives.”
A PAPER on fishing quotas ‘New Individual Transfer Quota (ITQ) Rights: Additional Policy Clarifications’ was discussed at the most recent meeting of the Falkland Islands Government’s Executive Council.
Today, two mandates were signed at the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Grand Salon in Geneva, in order to enable a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan to proceed. The plan, which began in 2017, has led to the DNA identification of 115 Argentine soldiers who died during the Falkland Islands War, and were previously buried in unnamed graves.
In the 50th anniversary year of the agreement Penguin News spoke to a number of Islanders on the subject of the agreement (see Penguin News this week) among them former Radio Station Manager Patrick Watts MBE wrote of his memories
THE Chamber of Commerce has criticised Standard Chartered Bank’s changes to its business banking fees in a highly condemnatory letter published in Penguin News this week; bank CEO Simon Fenton has responded to the criticisms.
BY midweek Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Operations (FISHOPS) had cleared 36 of the 105 jiggers that will take up Falkland Islands fishing licences to fish for illex squid this season, which will run from February 15 to June 15.
