Anti-monarchist sentiment gathers pace after death of queen and refusal to apologise for role in slavery
While millions of television viewers globally were transfixed by the pageantry of King Charles III’s coronation, lukewarm interest in the ceremony was the clearest sign yet that Jamaica’s nostalgic love affair with the royal family is over.
Veteran lawyer Hugh Small, a member of the 15-person constitutional reform committee charting Jamaica’s transition to a republic, is impatient to ditch the monarchy.
