Her voice cracking in an uncharacteristic display of emotion, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced her resignation bringing to an end her turbulent Brexit-laden three years in office.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines took a major step towards a cleaner and more secure energy future on Monday, May 6, launching a multi-million dollar geothermal energy-drilling project made possible with financing mobilised by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
In a situation that bears close, if not necessarily striking resemblance to the United Kingdom’s Windrush immigration crisis, the British Virgin Islands, a UK Overseas Territory, has found itself in the midst of an almost similar imbroglio.
The British government has rejected the key recommendations in the recent report by the UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee(FAC) on future relations with the Overseas Territories (OTS).
It’s early days yet but already US President DonaldTrump and former vice-president Joe Biden are squaring off to go head for next year’s US presidential election.
Reports that British businessman Richard Branson could be on the verge of rescuing the eastern Caribbean government-owned airline LIAT from almost certain financial demise, have set off a wave of speculation about the future of the beleaguered carrier.
Tensions and uncertainty continue to rise in - and about - Venezuela as the self-declared interim president Juan Guiado ramps up his moves to force Nicolas Maduro from office.
In a remarkable confluence of circumstances which have played right into her hands, in the space of an Easter holiday break, Mrs May has gone from ‘needs to go’ to ‘best in show’…and possibly the best deal around for both the Conservatives and the Labour Party on Brexit.
British prime minister Theresa May is obviously keen to escape the fate that befell Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first women prime minister. Mrs May is the second.
The news has been slow in filtering through, but it’s quite a big deal for the Caribbean in the Brexit scheme of things.