The British Virgin Islands is ‘banking’ on a trade mission outreach to India to hopefully “serve as a gateway for Indian companies seeking access to global investment”, according to BVI Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley.
The recently appointed UK Minister for the Overseas Territories, Uma Kumaran, made her inaugural overseas trip this week, visiting the Turks and Caicos Islands(TCI) on Sunday before attending the Caribbean Overseas Territories Caucus in Bermuda.
The new British government Minister for Overseas Territories has had her first outreach with the 14 leaders of the islands scattered across the globe, six of which are in the Caribbean/Americas region.
There are several important issues relating to Cayman and the other UK Overseas Territories(OTs) in the inbox of the UK’s new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, and the new Minister of State/Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the OTs, Uma Kumaran.
Representatives from the Ministry of Health, Environment and Sustainability have returned from the UK Overseas Territories (UKOT) Public Health Conference with new knowledge, strengthened partnerships and practical insights that will help inform public health policy and planning in the Cayman Island
The Anguilla House of Assembly, in collaboration with the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, Utilities, Housing, Information Technology and e-Government Services (MICUHITES), recently co-hosted the Caribbean AI Workshop.
It’s the elephant in the room that many are tiptoeing around, but which is creating internal tensions at the expense of keeping the diplomatic pipeline with the United States open.
The outgoing British government has given the Overseas Territories an assurance that the UK “remains committed to continuing and strengthening engagement with the OTs”.
For the first time in the last 13 years, a comprehensive review of the pension system in Montserrat is being carried out.
Cayman Islands representatives joined Deputy Governors and senior civil servants from the UK’s Caribbean Overseas Territories at the Overseas Territories Deputy Governors and Heads of Public Service Summit, which was held in Bermuda from June 9th to 14th.