A higher tax for corporation along with the introduction of free ports were among the highlights of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s budget speech at Parliament today.
There is much talk of vaccine diplomacy and vaccine apartheid these days – with the spotlight shining largely on developed countries which are said to be hoarding vaccines, and on three major developing countries which are giving away their vaccines – Russia, India and China.
Sputnik V has flown higher on the Covid-19 radar, as the Russian vaccine is now believed to have an efficacy rate of about 92 percent – putting it into the same orbit as the American vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar (also known as Burma), has lost a lot of fans globally, is likely not to get much sympathy on an international level now that she has been locked up by the military in what appears to be a coup d’etat.
As an angry hoard of Trump supporters took over the US Capitol building for about four hours on January 6 — resulting in the deaths of at least four people — much of the world stood aghast.
The world is filled with news today about the pandemic and how it is hitting people and the economy. But today all eyes are really only on one story, and that is on how a crowd of thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC, resulting in at least four people dying.
The pandemic that is currently sweeping the globe is the most severe disease to affect humanity since the Spanish Flu of the early 19th century.
As such, you’d think that the novel coronavirus would be worthy of having a distinct and novel name.
A Jamaican lion died on Tuesday. He was Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Jamaica’s greatest entrepreneur, a tourism mogul and a driving force for the country’s private sector.
A new year has started, but hopes that the coronavirus pandemic will be quickly contained are fading faster than US President Donald Trump’s hopes of being sworn in for a second term.
Some people can’t wait for the day when they are trending on social media. Prince Andrew is probably not one of those people.