Between 1st and 3rd of June the Irish Naval Service vessel L. E. Niamh shall visit Punta Arenas, under command of Captain Ken Minehane.

The ship will be docked in Arturo Prat's where it may be visited by people from 15 to 18 hours.

The Irish Navy informed the L.E. Niamh has set sail on a 10 week mission to Latin America, where Chile and Argentina celebrate the 200th anniversary of their independence this year, and the deployment takes place in support of Ireland's ongoing trade and diplomatic links with the region. Many Irishmen and women were associated with the achievement of independence.

A tour by 15 countries are doing four students with a car which uses kitchen burnt oil recycled as fuel, making 12 kilometers by liter. The car was in Torres del Payne and its crew, members of an ecological group, did a conference about environment and recycling to pupils from Ramon Serrano school. Their ca

"It was an important contribution to our effort to get the aim of nature conservation" called National Forest Corporation (CONAF) the cleaning activity at Torres del Paine National Park organized by Ultima Esperanza Tourism Guides Association.

Alejandro Marilican, chief of the Tourism Guide Association led 15 members of his institution and the Local Association of Tourism Guides to the Pehoe area of the park. The aim was to close the season with a service activity at the place in which they intensely work in spring and summer months, cleaning waste scattered by the wind and by disrespectful visitors at Pehoe Center and Campamento Italiano, as well in tracks between both points.

The implement and start of the new tourism institution, according to the its new law, and definition of Tourism National Strategy 2010-2018 are the elements on which new Tourism Director Jacqueline Plass is basing its work. The CEO of the industry made a detailed presentation of the current situation and projections of tourism in a meeting with travel agents and tour operators, members of the Chilean Association of Tourism Companies (ACHET Spanish acronym).

Eight students from Punta Arenas public schools travelled last Saturday to Falkland Islands on a program to improve their English language, according to an agreement with local municipality, British Consulate and Lan Airlines.

Punta Arenas Mayor Vladimiro Mimica stated his idea was to give better opportunities to pupils from municipal schools, since they don't have the possibility to study abroad as private schools students have.

The Mayor of Punta Arenas Vladimiro Mimica launched today the Winter Celebration 2010, in a meeting held at Cabo de Hornos hotel with representatives of all the city activities.

"We'll do it just by heart", said Mayor Mimica, since the earthquake which damaged an area of the country won't allow the expenses such activity demands, so he called businessmen and all the city members to collaborate with this great Patagonian winter celebration.