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Penguin News Vol 23 No 35

front_20120203 Flt Lt Wales here to do a job

Odd incidents on New Island

Resource Rent Review conclusions

Mini sports and shearathon coverage

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One can only hope for a new realistic perspective

THE seventh of a series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler. John is a former Superintendent of Education and a former Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

SOME years ago, around 1996 or 1997, I was invited to dine in an apartment in the Balvanera district of Buenos Aires. The apartment, which belonged to a friend of a friend, was just around the corner from where a car bomb had destroyed a Jewish Community Centre not long before. Eighty-five people were killed in this atrocity and another three hundred wounded. Because of the structural damage done to surrounding buildings, our hostess, one of the many psychologists in Buenos Aires, had been able to buy her apartment for a very reasonable price.

Prince William arrives Falkland Islands tomorrow

william ACCORDING to the British press Prince William will arrive in the Falkland Islands tomorrow to begin his tour at Mount Pleasant Airport.

Falklands Government decides on port options and consultative phase

fipass A PAPER relating to further work on options for the proposed new port facility for the Falkland Islands was presented to the latest Executive Council Meeting by the Falkland Islands Government Projects Director.

A press release from the Projects Director noted that the provision of additional port facilities within the Falkland Islands has long been considered, including a number of consultative phases by various bodies and organisations.

Falklands announces appointment of Interim Chief Executive

The Governor is pleased to announce that Mr Keith Padgett, (currently FIG's Financial Secretary), has agreed to take on the additional duties of the role of Chief Executive on an interim basis. Mr Padgett will take on the mantle of Chief Executive with effect from 1st February 2012 until such time as a successor for the current CE, Dr Tim Thorogood, takes up appointment.

Mr Padgett said that he was looking forward to taking on this interim role, "at what is an exceptionally exciting time in the Islands history."

Penguin News Vol 23 No 34

pnfront20120127 Oil quest draws US investor

Roger urges OCT-EU to protect our rights

Sparky's gift to SAMA

Inquest told of lessons to be learned

Little East movie makers

Waterfront Master plan images

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The years that count and those that don't by John Fowler

THE sixth of a series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler. John is a former Superintendent of Education and a former Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

IT is an observable fact that certain years remain in the popular consciousness, while others, perhaps equally important, seem less memorable. Nationality comes into this of course; for example I can never remember the year of the French Revolution which is a key historical date and probably well-known by every French school boy. On the other hand, though I am not quite that old, I shall never forget 1066, the year of the Norman invasion of England, nor 1492, when, according to the rhyme, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

Andarko visits Falkland Islands and oil new rig arrives

leiv_eriksson ANDARKO Petroleum sent a team to the Falkland Islands to examine options last week, travelling on a private jet to Mount Pleasant Airport. Rockhopper had previously said it was looking at various options to fund the development of its Sea Lion reservoir. The options include debt-funding, an equity injection or a partnership on the well. However, market insiders believe the talks could lead to a takeover of Rockhopper.

Left: Newly arrived rig Leiv Eriksson

BA Herald discusses Falkland Islands and Argentina 'tender' about its own colonialist past

IN an article that outlines Argentina's traditional denial of its colonialist past James Neilson of the Buenos Aires Herald writes that David Cameron's accusation that Argentina's attitude to the Falklands is 'colonialist' has hit a tender spot.

An Islander's offerings from Essex part 8

james_two_dogs COMING from a place as distant as the Falklands you get used to people not knowing a lot about where you're from. I recall that when my fellow Islanders and myself arrived at college in Winchester we were asked a host of questions by our fellow students which varied from the insightful, to the silly, to the insulting. I was once asked what the first language of the Falklands was, which is probably as damning an indictment of my speech as I could imagine. Ignorance about the Islands is nothing new of course. Famously there's a part of the The Diary Of Adrian Mole when Adrian bursts into his parents' bedroom early one morning and wakes them with the news that Argentina has invaded the Falklands. His dad leaps out of bed and starts to hurriedly get dressed because he think the Falklands are next to Scotland and the Argentines could reach their town within days.