Pivotal US Senate run-off elections in the state of Georgia were dramatically overshadowed on Wednesday when hundreds of supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump stormed the US Congress.
Unprecedented and extraordinary scenes erupted afternoon in Washington with pro-Trump protesters storming the Congress where there were also reports of an armed stand-off between some Trump supporters and Capitol police.
The British government says it tried but could not persuade the European Commission on a “future relationship that included the Overseas Territories.”
England has been placed under new more severe lockdown measures as a variant strain of the COVID-19 virus continues to sweep across the UK.
The delicately-balanced, critical run-off elections in the US state of Georgia next Tuesday January 5th hold a unique significance for Cayman.
Sighs of relief are certain to be at least wafting across the British Overseas Territories on the news that the ‘mother country’ and the European Union have reached agreement on Brexit.
With time running out, the United Kingdom and the European Union announced on Thursday that they had finally reached on a compromise on Brexit.
The United States reached a grim milestone on Monday December 14th when it was confirmed that it had crossed the 300,000 mark for the number of people who had died due to COVID-19.
The UK Minister responsible for the Overseas territories, Baroness Liz Sugg has quit over disagreement with her government’s decision to slash the UK international aid budget.
When world leaders, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, started congratulating US President-elect Joe Biden, it was seen as a signal of the pressing need to rebalance the equilibrium in international relations which has gone out of kilter during the Trump administration.