Britain alone cannot meet the Commonwealth's capital needs; and the Commonwealth countries do not provide anything like a sufficient market for Britain's industrial goods.
Flight time from New York City, not counting a pleasant overnight layover in Nassau, the commonwealth's capital, is five hours total.
Canberra, federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Boston, city, capital of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and seat of Suffolk county, in the northeastern United States.
That vote was a tipping point: never again would the Commonwealth come close to reinstating capital punishment.
Can I please return to Colombo now?" asked a Twitter user on the morning after leaders of the Commonwealth left the Sri Lankan capital after their summit ended on November 17th.
She was where I was just a few weeks back, admiring the post-commonwealth games opulence of our capital.
He has also, admirably, refused to invite Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, to this week's Commonwealth summit in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
"FINALLY, Delhi dazzles", gushed the Times of India on October 4th, a day after the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth games, to which the Indian capital is playing host until October 14th.
The British Prime Minister's ultimatum came as he was leaving the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka's cultural capital Colombo, where he failed to persuade fellow leaders to criticise Sri Lanka's human rights record in a communiqué.
