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
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
one of the last unexplored regions with great potential. The staff in Sagex has decades of considerable expertise on the Jan Mayen Ridge. When the Icelandic part of the Jan Mayen Ridge is opened for exploration [...] in two licences in the Norwegian Barents Sea, and one in the Norwegian Sea. In Denmark the company is operator for one licence in the North Sea. On the UK Continental Shelf, Sagex is partner in a discovery [...] with the declared aim of pursuing exploration opportunities on the Jan Mayen Ridge. The Jan Mayen Ridge is a micro-continent with the same geology as eastern Greenland and offshore Mid-Norway. It is one
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
lism? Far from it! Wealth is visible in the amount of new houses being built, in the size and the age of cars cruising the highway-like road network, and is expressed in the general upbeat and enterprising [...] ure, which is being developed in the North and West of Shetland, is located to the prospective oil province on the other site of the border between the UK and Faroe. Former Sullom Voe Oil Terminal manager [...] this year is well up, and much of that is thanks to oil-related offshore activity.« »There is more emphasis now on these areas, especially with the turmoil in the Middle East. The Shetland and the Faroese
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
mechanism to contain the hoped for prize? The Marjun success represents a one in three hit rate for the Faroes. This is good for the European sector of the Atlantic Frontier, especially when set against UK west [...] beyond that, there is the West Africa bonanza, which for now seems unstoppable. On the opposite side of the Atlantic to the North Sea, the story of oil has also been slow to unfold, though the potential of Eastern [...] 400billion cu.m. The figures are based on data gathered during the 1991 mapping and drilling programmes and are probably the most relevant to the Faroes. The message of this review is surely that a great
on our latitudes where the social safety net is supposed to catch everyone and ensure that we all get the same opportunities in life. This is not how the American system works. The fierce American capitalism [...] great credit to the House of Industry. I recently read the book about Bobby Fischer, the American chess player who defeated the Soviet chess machine in Reykjavík way back when. This was the first time Icelanders [...] event that would draw the merciless and powerful light of the whole world’s projectors to the combatants in the Laugardals hall, Fischer and Spassky, as well as to the rest of the Icelandic society. This
achieved in the first |Faroes campaign is smack on the global average. The trick now is to multiply that success several times over during the next two to three years, convert the discoveries into commercial [...] es of the 2-D seismic equipment used and due to the basalt layer that is characteristic of the Faroes Shelf. An offshore borehole was, however, drilled under the Ocean Drilling Programme in the mid-1970s [...] Then followed the long grind to get legislation finalised and onto the statute book, the decades-long boundary dispute with the UK settled, and the first licensing round launched. The last mentioned and
dissenting voice was heard when the Faroese parliament debated the terms of the agreement means the deal must have been fair to the fishing industry. It it was not, the fishery lobby would have put paid to an [...] frustrating. The good thing about the UF-Faroe boundary deal is that it appears reasonably equitable. Oil folk are happy. Fisherfolk are appeased. Much of the boundary is equidistant. There is only one sector [...] against Britain in the International Court at the Hague. During that time, Bog Oil could have lost interest in the UK portion of the Atlantic Frontier altogether. As it is, that interest is waning against
