It is a great pleasure and honor for me to be with you all here this evening to celebrate Faroese Flag Day. Thank you, Lord Provost, for your warm words of welcome to Edinburgh. It only adds to our pleasure [...] decided to send armed forces to the Faroe Islands to prevent a German invasion. Flying the Danish flag was no longer an option, and certainly not for the many Faroese vessels transporting fish to Scotland [...] We do not celebrate our flag as a symbol of isolation or seclusion, but as a symbol of the Faroe Islands as a nation among nations. Our flag can only fly proudly if we recognize the same rights to freedom
and Tvøroyrar skúli You also have to send this information to the school: Your full name. Date of birth. Where you live. Your work and your working hours. Your phone number. Send it to kvungskuli@tvoroyri [...] weeks 2 and a half hour each time in agreement with your teacher. The course concludes with an exam, and each student receives either a certificate from a position exam, which gives access to further education [...] for immigrants, who do not have Faroese as their mother tongue. The course is not intended for Scandinavians. Students learn Faroese language and about society and culture. The course is organized in accordance
rest of the country, when it comes to how we help newcomers to be integrated in a good way in our country. Of course it is a matter for the Council to give newcomers the best service. We must have employees [...] for the matter, so newcomers know where to contact professionals when they need any kind of help or advice. Arriving at a foreign country as a newcomer and trying to integrate is not always easy. Everything [...] adressing you newcomers in Tórshavn it is because I want to improve your chances for a smooth and easy integration. I want to prioritize integration on my political agenda. My name is Birita and I am a candidate
rights we need to arrange an information desk where you can come and get assistance to settle down in our municipality. The link leads to a comment I made about some of the work which has to be done. Use [...] convinced that a strong community will lead to general satisfaction and well-being, and you should most certainly be a part of this well-being. Here in the Municipality of Tórshavn, we need to create more [...] flexible solutions for the Faroese language courses and arrange courses during the day and in the evening. We also need to find means to improve your acces to the labour market. As for better general i
the means to do so, and because I am human, I have the means to react to defend them and I do. Empathy is the experience of a foreign consciousness and the ability to see what another sees, to feel what [...] killing a cow, a sheep, or a pig raised for human consumption. This is akin to killing a mountain gorilla, a chimpanzee, or an orangutan. It is simply ethically and morally wrong. And humanity as a whole [...] that end, we decided to make a public presentation in Torshavn to explain why Sea Shepherd is defending the whales. First we approached Nordic House, a cultural institution, where we were politely told
I lift my brow and make a "what? You´ve got to be kidding me." "You were the one who wanted to know me Wanting to know my name. I gave you a smile and tossed my hair Wanting to know the same." "We wrote [...] been a hole in my heart." "I decided to go out this weekend To this "club" DJ - show. I´m joking around, talking to friends And hey, what do you know." "I saw you dancing on the floor And then you caught [...] everywhere. I sat with my friends, thinking of you They asked, why do you stare". "The following day I had to check To see if you were on MySpace. I found your name, a picture I saw It was your beautiful face"
his father died in a traffic accident. A setback of a magnitude hard to grasp on our latitudes where the social safety net is supposed to catch everyone and ensure that we all get the same opportunities [...] landing at Vágar airport in just a few hours. What does he want and what good does a visit by a retired president do us? Of course we are all very excited to hear what a man, who has had the ultimate r [...] Yale. This paints him as a rather atypical young man with ambitions in a country where a military career often is a gateway into the halls of political power. He was determined to rule what is the only empire
Faroe Islands as a Tolkien-like country and about the boy who found a watch that had travelled all the way from the North Pole. But in order to sell the Faroes to his editors, he needed a more solid story [...] 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 from nothing [...] comes. His visit is an opportunity to invite them, but there have to be additional interesting stories. Otherwise they could just report from a Clinton lecture closer to home, says Tórun Ellingsgaard. -
this background it is possible to make predictions of what you may find deep down, but one is always taking a risk, and you will not know if you find anything, before you actually hit it with the drill [...] near 100 %. We are now about to undertake significant investments in the Vagar airport both with the aim to modernise it and to increase its capacity with a longer runway and a larger terminal. The Faroese [...] challenges in this regard, and will do our utmost to combine an emerging oil industry with a process, where we develop alternative sources of power. There doesn’t need to be any conflict of interests between
effectivity. The aim is to develop the Faroes to a knowledge society and in this environment where the country is, at may well be a process that makes the Faroes bring solutions to the world in these areas [...] its benefits as people see other societies, but also needs to get them back home. Small societies The Faroes has a lot to give the world in how to manage remote and small societies and could in the future [...] integrated part of nature to go fishing and having sheeps in the mountains. All though most youngsters live a life similar to other young people in the western world, it still comes with a touch and respect of