swift. The company has today ten people employed. Five in the Faroes and five in London. The company is also a partner in several licenses in UK waters, whereof some are already producing oil. The company [...] important for the shareholders and those who have invested in the company. Among them are large companies and the banks in the Faroes and this discovery will be very important for them. The ring affect from [...] –“This is without doubt very important for the company”, says Mr Wilhelm Petersen, CEO. The largest oil company y in the Faroes, Atlantic Petroleum is truly flying once again. On Friday, the company announced
their plans in the Faroes. The consultation is for those who move to the Faroe Islands on a family residence permit or on a work permit with accompanying family members. The consultation is not available [...] available to Nordic citizens. It is important to note that contacting the Integration Officer is voluntary and this does not affect one’s residence permit. The Integration Officer is not part of processing residence [...] residence permit cases and the consultation is confidential. The Integration Officer can also cooperate with other public and local authorities and organizations, the private sector, non-profit organizations
Sveinn Jónsson Iceland On the 11th of June in 1988 about six thousand peoplewere gathered together in a religious gathering by the Bethlehem church in Kawangware in Nairobi, Kenya. Mary Sinaida Akatsa [...] beard suddenly stood among them. The man walked hand in hand with Mary towards the church building. In clear Swahili without any trace of accent the man said that the people of Kenya and especially those [...] had left in a car belonging to a mr. Gurnam Singh, who had offered to give the man a ride. What happened next gave mr. Gurnam Singh an even more shock. The man in white got out by the next bus stop, walked
opportunities in the future. - - - - Regarding a coming oil industry, it is immensely important that our government is in full control over all recourses in the Faroese subsoil. We are aware that the day oil [...] fact amongst the best educated in the world, and of the Nordic countries only the Finnish population actually has a higher degree of education than the Faroese. Infrastructure is good with subseatunnels [...] connecting six of the islands whith over 80 % of the population. Moreover, the IT penetration is near 100 %. We are now about to undertake significant investments in the Vagar airport both with the aim to modernise
hate speech is, in fact, illegitimate in a liberal democracy. The right to express oneself freely concerning any political decision is, according to Dworkin, a core democratic principle; it is what self [...] rather outside of the law, namely, in private institutions such as universities, museums etc. Restrictions on political speech in various societal circumstances have been on the rise through the last decades [...] first and foremost in the US. I analyse why these restrictions on political speech are more widespread in the only Western country without laws against hate speech than they are in countries with implemented
and change over the years and the centuries, and in the ever-changing world we live in today, we see shifts and changes in culture both here in Iceland and in the Faroe Islands, and in some cases our two [...] Menningarnótt in Reykjavík – as well as our own annual Mentanarnátt in Tórshavn – is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the diversity in our culture, showing a mix between new and old, modern and classic [...] nations move in different directions and at different speed. But there is nothing strange or unfortunate about this. Because culture is not static. It evolves. And it grows. It learns from the past while
disruptive to be good for us.? However, the debate in the islands quickly focussed on whether the oil harbour and the ground the terminal stands on should be in public or in private ownership, he said ?Eventually [...] 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 [...] their case to the UK government in London, which resulted in the Zetland County Council Act 1974, a unique piece of UK legislation that gave the islands the control over its waters and led to the present set-up
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 [...] doorstep in the early 1990?s. Instead Britain is finally carrying out constitutional reform in a conscious attempt to adapt to its modern place in the world. New centres of poser have been created in Scotland [...] captivated by the beauty of the scenery and the special qualities of the people in the Same way as William Morris, John Buchan and John Betheman and many of their compatriots have been over the years. These
black, or withe. Those who know sheep well use several other terms, and it´s always delightful, especcially when up in the hills, to hear people naming and identifying the sheep. In the "Sheepbook", by Robert [...] together beautifully. ##med7## ##med8## In a few weeks, it will be time to gather the flocks, as the autumn hills are walked. In many places, this is a very special time of the year when families, neighbours, [...] have significant number of sheep in the Faroe Islands. It is often said that there are around eigthy thousand sheep, wich means that there are more sheep than people in the Faroe Islands. ##med2## ##med3##
our ship in Torshavn in Saturday, August 13 to invite people onboard for discussion with the Captain and crew. In the meantime, for anyone in the Faeroes who wants to know why we are here, the letter below [...] (Scientific American). The rise in ocean acidification is believed to contribute to this decline of the phytoplankton. The oceans are in trouble, and thus humanity is in trouble because if the oceans die – we [...] brought the horror of the Taiji dolphin slaughter to the attention of the world with the Academy Award-winning film The Cove, we now must turn the barrel of the most powerful weapon ever invented on the Faeroes
