FINN(COM) DAILY RECORD FOR MONDAY, 19 APRIL 2004

 

 

COMMITTEE MEETING:

 

The date of the next Planning and Building Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday 6^th May, commencing at 9am, and to be held in the Liberation Room at the Secretariat.

 

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PUBLIC NOTICE

THE PLANNING ORDINANCE 1991
NOTICE OF PLANNING APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

Notice is hereby given that the following applications for planning permission have been received:

Application No Address Description Developer

23/95/R04:   Holdfast Road, Stanley   Renewal of temporary planning permission for siting of Portakabin for storage of exhibits. Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust 

41/00/R04:   Monument Hill, Ross Road, Stanley

 

Renewal of temporary planning permission for siting of phone booth and creation of path. Cable & Wireless Plc    

05/03/DP:   Rear of 66 Davis Street, Stanley

 

Detailed plans following approval of outline permission for erection of dwelling Mr A Alazia   

17/04/DP:   17A Ross Road West, Stanley

 

Detailed plans following approval of outline permission be erection of 3 dwellings Ian Stewart Construction Ltd

51/04/PB 5:   Sulivan Street, Stanley Erection of dwelling and garage Mr D. Peck 

52/04/P:   20 Ross Road East, Stanley Erection of sun-house Mr J. Moffatt 

 

53/04/P:   St Mary's Walk, Stanley

 

Formation of toddler's play area including erection of boundary fence, placement of safety surfaces and installation of equipment FIG.     

54/04/PB:   Pebble Island Lodge Installation of stairs Ms J. Jennings & Mr A. White

57/04/PB 32:   Fitzroy Road, Stanley Change of use from shop to dwelling. Miss K. Steen  

58/04/PB:   FILO, Barrack Street, Stanley

 

Change of use from shop to office and tutorial rooms Mr J. Fowler & Miss L. Fava 

59/04/PB:   11 Sulivan Street, Stanley Erection of dwelling Mr D. McGill 

60/04/PB:   4 Anderson Drive, Stanley Erection of dwelling Miss N. Summers 

61/04/PB:   7 Anderson Drive, Stanley Erection of dwelling Mr M. Short 

62/04/PB:   8A Brisbane Road, Stanley Extension to garage Mr A. Jaffray 

63/04/P:   Stanley Racecourse Improvement of existing drainage Stanley Sports Association

64/04/PB:   KEMH, St Mary's Walk,

 

Stanley Removal of standby generator and installation of new; modify openings for new attenuators. Conversion of workshop to un-interrupted power supply room. FIG 

       
65/04/PB 7 Sulivan Street, Stanley

 

Erection of semi-detached dwelling Mr & Mrs D. Plato and Mr & Mrs A. Yon

66/04/PB:   PWD Dockyard, Stanley Replacement of timbers and windows PWD 

67/04/PB:   5 Short Street, Stanley

 

Erection of retaining wall, extension of drop kerb, placement of new drop kerb and provision of driveway Mr M. McLeod   

68/04/PB:   Plot 37, Fitzroy Ridge, Stanley Erection of dwelling Mr & Mrs P. Ford 

69/04/PB:   6 Anderson Drive, Stanley Erection of dwelling Mr A. Olmedo 

 

FIBS News Direct:  Monday, 19 April 2004

 

NURSE CHANGES PLEA:

 

Former nurse, Denise Schophaus yesterday changed her plea to Guilty to eight of the ten charges she faces for drugs theft and forgery.  Miss Schophaus still says she’s innocent of two charges of stealing 10 capsules of Pethadine between the 18^th of June and the 29^th of July and of stealing a controlled drugs register on the 21^st of July.  But she’s pleaded guilty to eight of the remaining eight charges against her.  They include 3 charges of the theft of Pethadine and four charges of forgery, relating to entries of the controlled drugs register.  Miss Schophaus had already pleaded guilty to the theft of paracetamol. Mr. Mark Benson represented Miss Schophaus and prosecution counsel for the Falkland Islands Government was Brian Cummings.  Both barristers travelled to the Islands for the trial.  The hearing has now been adjourned till Thursday morning to give time for the preparation of both a medical report and a pre-sentence report.

 

CHARITY EVENTS:

 

There was a weekend of hard work for the Pull was oveipants of two charity events.  Fourteen members of the Fire Service pulled a fire engine all the way from the Beaver Hanger to the Public Jetty on Saturday, raising more than £600.00 for the Stephen Jaffray Memorial Fund.  After the pull was over, I caught up with a slightly breathless Gardner Fiddes (GF).

 

GF:  It was hard and painful.  It took 29.5 minutes.  The first time we did it we took 34 minutes.

 

While the Fire Service were flexing their muscles, the boys from MPA Sub Depot were busy making their way towards Stanley in the Iron Man Challenge.  The team swam a mile at the MPA Pool and leaped on bikes to ride 25 miles towards Stanley before finishing off with a 10-mile run into town.  They were raising funds for the KEMH Children’s charity.  I met Ras Astbury (RA), Senior Ammunition Technician at the 82 War Memorial after they finished their 7-hour fete.

 

RA:  A couple of us are a bit stiff in the joint region but other than that, we are not too bad.  We’ve got blisters but we are OK.

 

SG:  So what was the toughest part of the whole thing?

 

RA:  The toughest part must have been the cyclist who covered three sharp and steep hills as we were coming up to about the 20-mile point of the 25-mile cycle.  Some of us lost peddles there as well.  It was tricky trying to peddle with one leg.  But the run was OK.

 

SG:  Have people been generous?

 

RA:  Very much so, especially along the old Stanley Road.  We had been stopping vehicles that have been coming from the rear and from the front.  They put a £20.00 note in at one stage.  It looks like we’ve done very well.

 

SG:  I asked Social Work Team Leader, Sarah Jane Rich (SJR), what the money will be spent on.

 

RA:  They are absolutely fantastic.  I don’t know how much money they have raised at the moment but it sounds like quite a significant amount.  It’s come just at the right time because we are hoping to start a library, which will benefit all children in Stanley.  We’ve also got an order of some special needs swings and climbing frames for the welcome centre and we will be able to buy some additional pieces for that equipment as well.  That will be lovely.

 

HAROLD ROWLANDS DIES AT 72:

 

Former Financial Secretary, Mr. Harold Rowlands, has died at the age of 72.  He lived for his whole life at the house where he was born, close to the top of Bravo Slip, which has been home to the Rowlands Family since it was built 125 years ago.

 

In 1982, Mr. Rowlands’ proximity to the Bravo Slip began a long friendship with the Army’s Port Troop, who he welcomed ashore when they unloaded their equipment there during the conflict.  He was the highest-ranking FIG official left in the Islands during the conflict.  And, in January, 1983, he presented the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, with the Freedom of Stanley in the Town Hall, taking the opportunity to land a kiss on the cheek.

 

Mr. Rowlands first joined the Government as an employee in 1948 and was a public servant for more than 40 years.  He was Financial Secretary from 1972 until his retirement in 1998, when he was awarded a CBE.  In 1989, Mr. Rowlands became a Member of Legislative Council – a post he held for four years.  He also sat on Executive Council.

 

Current Leg-co Members yesterday issued a statement saying they were deeply saddened by his death and conveyed their sympathy to his family and many friends.  They paid tribute to what they called his significant and very special contributions to the Falklands.

 

As a mark of respect, flags will be flown at half-mast on the day of Mr. Rowlands’ funeral.  The date of that is yet to be confirmed.

 

Mr. Rowlands, who died early on Saturday morning, is survived by his sister, Betty.  A Home Office Pathologist is expected in the Islands on Friday to investigate the death.

 

SHEEP:

 

Around 400 sheep, which were left in a holding pen at Newhaven for over a week have now recovered and are on their way to the Abattoir, according to Vet, Steve Pointing.  The sheep were collected from George Island, Ruggles Island and Great Island on the 31^st of March for delivery to the Abattoir.  FIMCO had asked Island Shipping to release them into the large paddock, rather than in the delivery pen because they intended to leave them there for a week.  But Island Shipping said yesterday afternoon that the Tamar Master had made it clear to FIMCO, the sheep could only be moved into the large paddock in the summer when dogs could be made available.  Unless that was done, they would be putting them into the holding pen.  As no one from FIMCO was there to meet the Tamar, that’s what they did and that’s where the sheep stayed for eight days, until shepherds from Goose Green found them still there and let them into the paddock, where they spent a week recuperating.  Steve Pointing (SP) said the sheep had survived their ordeal well.

 

SP:  I did go down and have a look at them.  The sheep were rounded up and I inspected them at fairly close quarters and they looked in very good condition.  But this was about four or five days after they had been put into the paddock and they looked liked like a lot of very healthy sheep.

 

INJURED CREWMAN:

 

A crewman was airlifted from the Argos Pareara on Saturday after getting his fingers crushed in a piston in the engine room.  The RAF brought him into KEMH where staff are understood to have saved the Peruvian’s fingers.  There are hopes that he will be repatriated next Saturday.

 

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FIBS NEWS DIRECT: TUESDAY, 20 APRIL 2004

 

NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR NAMED:

 

Dr. John Hughes has been appointed as the new British Ambassador to Argentina.  He will replace Sir Robin Christopher in November 2004, when he retires from the diplomatic service.  Dr. Hughes is married with two sons.  He comes straight from a secondment to Shell, where he was Vice President for International Relations and has also served in Santiago, Washington, Madrid and Caracas. 

 

FIDC BUDGET CUT BY 3%:

 

The Falkland Islands Development Corporation has cut its budget for 2004/05 by 3%.  This morning’s meeting of the Falkland Islands Development Board heard the total budget will be £1Million 24 Thousand.  The organisation has saved a further £37,000.00 with the transfer of the training budget to the Education Department.  It was noted, however, that the subsidy requirement for FIG is £794,000.00 if FIDC re-invests capital repayments.  If capital repayments are not re-invested then the subsidy would be reduced to £574,000.00. 

 

The key areas for expenditure in the budget are Aquaculture, Tourism, and adding value to wool.  During the budget discussion, Members examined the possibility of FIDC using up part of its reserve funds.  It was suggested that because of the current difficult financial climate, FIDC might be required to spend around 200,000.00 of its approximately £300,000 reserves. 

 

The Falkland Islands Meat Company is still absorbing very large amounts of Development Corporation staff time, reports FIDC General Manager, Julian Morris.  He’s actively looking to move responsibility for FIMCO management from FIDC to Sand Bay.  Mr. Morris said at this FIDB meeting that it wouldn’t be easy to achieve but work was underway.  The current financial forecast for the meat company, including actual performance, to February 2004, is still within the Standing Finance Committee forecast, he confirmed at the meeting of the Development Board today.

 

Also at the meeting, Mr. Morris noted that there had already been interest from the private sector in the use of the start-up offices on the ground floor of FIDC.  He said the offices, which are not quite complete, would provide flexible work-space with start-up or expanding businesses at a cheap rate.  The offices are primarily for individuals who want to move on from administering their businesses from home.  Mr. Morris said it was not intended that each business should remain in the office space in the long-term.  The opportunity was only to assist in making the transition towards renting office space from a private landlord.  FIDC staff are using the upstairs boardroom to allow for downstairs space to be used for the start-up offices.

 

TOWN HALL BUZZ:

 

The town Hall will be buzzing this evening as a prelude to tomorrow’s Queen’s Birthday celebrations.  The Normandy Band of the King’s Division, who will be performing at tomorrow’s parade, will be warming up with a dinner dance in aid of the Museum.  Doors open at 1930.

 

BAS MAN HELPS RESCUE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT:

 

It’s been revealed that BAS personnel aboard the RRS Earnest Shackleton were involved in a dramatic race to Deception Island this season to save a Single Otter Plane, which was in danger of being stolen by an American (not clear whether north or south) aeroplane collector.  I spoke to John Shears (JS), the British Antarctic Survey’s Senior Environmental Officer, who was onboard the Shackleton when she had to dash to pick up the plane and remove it to safety.

 

JS:  We got called at very short notice by BAS in Cambridge to go to the old British base on Deception Island where there was the fuselage of a Single Otter aircraft.  We had heard that a private individual had decided that he was going to take the Otter.

 

SG:  How was he going to manage that?

 

JS:  We don’t know but we got e-mails from him.  For a long we thought he was a bit of a strange character but we discovered he was a bona fide person and that he did have an interest in historic aircraft and he did have the where-with-all to get the aircraft.  As it was our aircraft, we decided that we would get it for ourselves.

 

It certainly was a bit dramatic going into Deception Island because you have to go through a very narrow entrance called Neptune’s Bellows.  We were wondering if there was a vessel there or if anybody had been ashore.  But there wasn’t so we located the aircraft and we got it onboard the Shackleton.

 

POLICE NEWS:

 

There have been three incidents over the last week.  All three took place last Wednesday.  At 0815 it was reported that someone had damaged a vehicle on Fitzroy Road East.  A windscreen had been cracked.  Later in the day around 1345, Officers caught six people speeding when they carried out checks on the Stanley to Darwin Road.  They are due to appear in Court shortly.  At the end of the day, at 2145, Police were called to a disturbance in the Waverly House car park.  Two people are helping Police with their enquiries.

 

REFITTED NAFFI:

 

Media Ops say that, unlikely as it sounds, the new look Skittles Coffee Shop now offers a Parisian style café atmosphere.  The Route 38 Pub, formerly the Gull and Penguin, has been re-vamped to give the look and feel of a traditional English pub.  The area was formally opened on Monday by the Commander of British Forces and 17 year-old Pte., Liam Philip Charlton, the youngest serviceman at MPA.  It is a non-smoking alcohol-free area open from 1030 to 2200 for drinks and light meals.  Route 38, on the other hand, will be open from 1900 to 2330, serving pub grub.

 

SEAT OF ANTARCTIC TREATY:

 

Buenos Aires looks set to become the permanent seat of the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat.  A bill has been passing through the Argentine Parliament to ratify a decision made last year in Madrid by 27 of the 46 countries that subscribe to the Antarctic Treaty.

 

ELLEN IN NEWPORT:

 

Ellen McArthur has arrived in Newport Rhode Island onboard the B&Q after a 6500 mile solo journey from the Falklands.  B&Q will undergo a series of tests to analyse the affects of her journey from New Zealand.  They will then go into stand-by for a trans-Atlantic record attempt.

 

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