Recovery efforts are carried out by the British army on Tortola after Hurricane Irma ReutersAbout 100 “very serious” convicts were on the loose on the British Virgin Island of Tortola last night as Boris Johnson flew into Anguilla to face expected protests over Britain’s slow response to Hurricane Irma. Sir Alan Duncan, the Foreign Office minister, revealed that 100 prisoners had escaped when their jail was breached in the record-breaking storm a week ago, prompting a “serious threat of the complete breakdown of law and order”. Stranded British tourists have spoken of their terror of looters and machete-waving gangs in the streets of Tortola and expressed anger at the government’s failure to arrange their evacuation, contrasting their efforts with those of foreign governments. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said it was alarming that a week after the hurricane…

Source: The Times September 12, 2017 23:02 UTC