island today, the role of Britain in our flag’s official history will be remembered. Being in Scotland gives us the chance to highlight how many of the troops stationed in the Faroes during the war actually [...] banner in 1919. But it was on the 25 th of April 1940 that the British Government officially recognised our flag as the ensign of the Faroe Islands. This was soon after Denmark had been taken over by the [...] Two of the main regiments on our shores during those five years of wartime occupation were the Lovat Scouts, followed by the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). With over 7000 troops at the height of the occupation

conference in Torshavn, to compare the effects on Norway and Newfoundland. In Norway, the contribution of the petroleum industry to the national gross domestic product (GDP), after decades of activity, recently [...] resulted in significant government revenues, permitting expenditures on such things community swimming pools and homes for the elderly. However, these types of initiative can only be sustained in the long [...] social spending and the development of an oil fund is accompanied by the provision of ?real world? business opportunities to Faroese business-people. Fortunately, given the size of the Faroes economy and

atrocity of such dimension may make any president overreact BUT to the President of the mightiest nation of the world it is unseemly to lose composure and promise retaliation (revenge) On the screen I [...] AND HOW CAN WE MAKE UP FOR IT? You yourself have stressed that you will fight for a DEMOCRATIC system in the open society for JUSTICE and PEACE in the world With that in mind: How can it be right to attack [...] announce to the ILL-DOERS: Listen to me all of you I have a PROPOSITION for you Then we would truly honour you as a Great President Then they will be the defensive party, and you will be in the position to

The first invitation was given by Editor-in-Chief Jan Müller in Copenhagen in 1999. Another invitation was delivered, together with a Present, by the Danish Embassy in Pretoria on the occasion of Nelson [...] colleagues on the recently formed Council of Elders. The founding of this body is indeed a momentous development. It can only be an immense new force for good to have the accumulated wisdom of the Council being [...] Editor-in-Chief of Sosialurin the leading newspaper of the Faroe Islands which I am proud to say campaigned vigorously for your release during the dark days of the Apartheid era. We are naturally sorry that

loysn: "Most herbs are growing in the Faroes and the nature is so wise [] most problems, people develope at that particular area, will be possible to cure by just turning to the nature, turning to what available; [...] exists in the Faroes could be treated from herbs that is growing locally ..."; "natura-medicin, that I am practising, can basically help any problem ..."; "... this is all up to you; your health is in your [...] til Manhattan at luttaka á árliga flokstinginum hjá republikanar-unum "because the President is doing the Lord?s work in Washington". Ikki óvæntað royndi eg at halda ímóti væl fatiligu innantrongdini at

53 prisoners were executed in the USA in 2006, bringing to 1,057 the total number executed since the use of the death penalty was resumed in 1977. Scientific studies have consistently failed to find convincing [...] enjoyed by all people. Today, nearly sixty years later there do, however, seem to be different opinions about some of the most fundamental rights in the Declaration, namely the “right to life, liberty and security” [...] convincing evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments and as long as the death penalty is maintained, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated. Since

question of luck or coincident that the Faroe Islands suddenly get huge world-media coverage. It turns out that the origin of the recent flood of stories is to be found in the cancelled visit by Bill Clinton [...] Sosialurin, brought the story in connection with a portrait of the composer, but the reason why the Faroe Islands suddenly had become a subject of interest was unknown to the journalist. Of course nothing comes [...] this tiny country, the situation had changed. The last couple of months he had noticed that the islands were on the front page of several travel sections in major American newspapers. The Faroese newspaper

here in the Faroes we are waiting in suspense for the result of a future American presidential election. In is of course exciting in its own right if a woman was to become the very first President in the [...] world of a one-eyed parliament instead of an advanced society. Convey to them discreetly that one of the reasons you became one of the most popular Presidents ever in the history of the USA is, that you were [...] that the full potential of the human resources within the people is utilised. That a Government of men only and a Parliament consisting almost entirely of men is sending a signal to the rest of the world

study the stability and changes of the current and we have one of the most respected scientists in the field, Bogi Hansen, here in the Faroes. Maybe this is where the question of climate changes can get [...] building. The Faroes is now a part of the world. Research One of the most crucial mechanism of the planets oceans is in Faroese waters where the Gulf Stream has its turning point. This makes the Faroes a [...] get answers. In May the worlds leading experts in the field fetal programming and developmental toxicity met in the Faroes for the first international conference on the subject. It was in the Faroes because

country in the Middle East? So, in addition to honesty, humility and the revival of the principles of true humanity, the world seems to be in need of the wisdom of professional statesmen. Quoting the poet [...] island groups, the Faroes were, in the Middle Ages, dependencies or tax lands of the Kingdom of Norway. However, while Shetland and the Orkneys fell under the harsh dominion of the Scots, the Faroes eventually [...] or even expedient, to paint the world in colours of black and white. To be sure, the roots of modern terrorism are many and can be found e.g. in the fanaticism and bigotry of figures like Mohammad Ibn Abdel