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UK Brexit Minister resigns over Johnson Gov’t COVID measures
LONDON, UK - Brexit Minister, Lord David G.H. Frost, has resigned from the UK Government over "concerns about the current direction of travel, regarding the Johnson Government’s handling of COVID-19.
Johnson says UK Gov’t parties will go on amidst surging COVID cases
LONDON, UK - The UK has recorded the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 78,610 reported on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, alone.
Calls mount for UK PM to resign over Downing St. Christmas party
LONDON, UK – United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is facing fresh calls for his resignation after a leaked video showed his staff joking about hosting an illegal 2020 Christmas party while the UK underwent strict COVID-19 restrictions.
11 children taken to hospital as ceiling collapses @ primary school in UK
LONDON, UK- Eleven children and two adults were taken to hospital after a ceiling collapsed at a primary school in south-east London in the United Kingdom (UK).
'Pandora Papers' show London is a key hub for tax avoidance
LONDON, United Kingdom- While the United Kingdom has been pressuring the [British] Virgin Islands and other Overseas Territories to have Public Registers of Beneficial Ownership to fight against what it termed 'dirty money', the Pandora Papers has revealed London is a key destination of choice for some of the world’s richest and most powerful people to conceal their cash and avoid tax.
UK PM grilled over public funds given to ex-mistress
LONDON, UK- In another blow to integrity, United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been quizzed over whether he acted with ‘honesty and integrity in his relationship with US businesswoman and ex-mistress Jennifer M. Arcuri while he was Mayor of London.
Premier’s UK trip was uninvited; cost taxpayers $43,000
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A recent trip to the United Kingdom (UK) by Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) and Opposition Leader, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) cost tax payers $43,000.
A travel story- Part B
Dickson Igwe
There is an international quality to Paris. This is an appeal London is losing with Brexit and growing xenophobia.
From Paradise to London & on to Paris
Dickson Igwe
First impressions: and Paris is ruled by a rich French culture, freedom loving peoples, good governance, and an exceptional ethical subset. Mixing the preceding with one of the world’s finest rail and metro networks, and a physical and social infrastructure that is second to none, and the result is that Paris is the greatest city on earth.
VI snubbed from anti-corruption summit in London
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On the heels of the Panama Papers and the Virgin Islands and the international attacks on the Virgin Islands’ financial services industry, it has come as a major surprise that the Virgin Islands, along with Panama, was not invited to the first worldwide anti-corruption summit in London this week.
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