The coronation has accelerated the Jamaican government’s plans for a referendum on whether to keep King Charles as head of state, according to a senior minister.
Marlene Malahoo Forte, Jamaica’s minister for legal and constitutional affairs, said Charles was as “foreign as it gets” in the Caribbean country and that the “time has come” to remove the British monarch from his place in the island’s constitution.
“We have to get it done, especially with the transition in the monarchy. My government is saying we have to do it now. Time to say goodbye,” she told Sky News.
She predicted that it would take place as early as next year and hoped to bring forward a bill this month. Passing the bill could take nine months
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