who are coming here in good faith. In my opinion the ad is repulsive. In the text, you try to make it sound like you are doing the foreigners a favor by providing some basic information about the labor market [...] properly before the law was passed. The foreign workers arrive here eager to start work, eager to meet new people and to experience a new culture. Just as when we travel abroad, just as when we let our children [...] think that the campaign also shows how you are calling for your new colleagues to be frozen out of the Faroese labor market. There is no offer of a membership in any of your unions. I think this is highly

difficulties were to be expected when you combine the traditional working methods of the oil industry with the stipulations of the hydrocarbon law and the expectations of the local business community. Let [...] challenge for the authorities, the oil companies and the local industry. The large quantities of data which has been collected from the drillings this summer will be subjected to intense studies over the coming [...] general impression is that the activities on the whole have been carried out in a satisfactory manner. However I still think that this conference is a good forum for dialog between the parties involved,

where it should wish the worker all the best . This is why we must give the foreign labourworkers the right to go into ALS to get back on their feet, and time to find themselves a new job with better work [...] The requirements, that the foreign labourworker must work and live under are : when the work contract is done, then he will be sent back to his home country. However there are terrible shadow stories that [...] that are coming to light about how the labourworker will quit, because he has been treated so horribly or cheated- and when the labourworker quits, he too will be sent back to his home country regardless

g, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country [...] dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t think I could live there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate [...] country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the great melting pot’ (or salad bowl, as I think is more fitting). However

because of the oil industry and the challenge for the Faroes, if oil is discovered in its waters, will be to capitalise on the opportunity yet retain the unique charm of the islands. Aberdeen and the North-east [...] dependent on the daily fluctuation of the oil price and the Faroes Islands must carefully balance the huge opportunity which the industry can bring with the retention of the islanders? core values and the very [...] activities. The industry continued to thrive through the 1990s although the two most common words were ?cost reduction.? The CRINE (Cost Reduction in the New Era) initiative was launched in 1993 with the aim of

can only dream of. With the massive Clair oil field, 50 miles to the west of Shetland, coming on stream towards the end of next year, the BP led management at the oil terminal is confident that Sullom Voe [...] to come anyhow, and the more we could control and be part of the development, the more money we could keep in the community and create the facilities for the future.? Subsequently, the council?s representatives [...] Marter Since the first oil was pumped ashore, on the 25th November, 1978, from the new oil fields in the East Shetland Basin, almost 7.5 billion barrels of crude have been exported from the four loading

year is expected to cost app. DKK 80 million. Mr Gunnbjørn Joensen says the Thor Alpha will set course directly for Mexico when it is ready. The company is providing offshore services all over the world [...] admits the pace has been fierce since they founded the company thirteen years ago, but this is due not least to the many good staff they have acquired, he adds. Two new seismic supply vessels The Thor fleet [...] today counts 24 vessels, but the fairytale does not stop here, because in mid-November 2007, the new seismic supply vessel “Thor Alpha” is set to join the fleet and in the autumn of next year a sister

As the evening drew to a close with the guests singing the national anthem with pride and passion, one had the feeling that this gathering on 18 February at the Danish Embassy was the occasion when the [...] A whole cross section of the Faroese community in the UK was represented. There were the war brides including Nicolena Prince whose story of coming to the UK was told in the book ?Karleikur undir krignum [...] being a social occasion the intention was that the evening should be informative for everyone. The talks and film about the future Oil Industry in the Faroe Islands certainly gave everyone food for thought

everything that awaits us in the Faroes, but I highly anticipate the natural beauty, a new family and comm­unity, and the wool. If you see me on the street over the next year shout out a greeting: We can count [...] politics. “It is clear to us, based on Iraq, that President Bush is mentally handicapped,” they told us earnestly as we visited and watched the sun set over the city. It is not a bad point, but as the only American [...] only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment

reshaping of the relationship between nations in the Danish Kingdom (Ríksfelagskap). The British Empire is no more although the Faroese could have been forgiven for thinking otherwise when the UK sought to [...] mere three miles away from the shoreline. The effect was to squeeze Faroese inshore fishermen (útróðrarmenn) out of teir home waters. Later on in the 1960?s the Faroese took the long overdue step of extending [...] programmes will be placed in the hands of the practiced professionals from the Foreign Office who will do everything to ensure that the visitor leaves with the best impressions of the host country. They will