Jamaica’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, has instructed his government to “move ahead with speed” in abolishing the country’s constitutional monarchy. “It is time that Jamaica becomes a republic,” Holness said, according to a story published Tuesday in The Gleaner, a newspaper in Jamaica. When Barbados became a republic in November 2021, the country removed its then-sovereign — Queen Elizabeth II — as head of state. “That is what we are going to do.”The prime minister later told Prince William and Kate Middleton ― during their controversial tour of the Caribbean in 2022 ― that Jamaica was “moving on” from its past. Prince William and Kate Middleton visit Holness at his office on March 23 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Source: Huffington Post January 18, 2023 01:35 UTC