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God Save the King’ doesn’t fall from Jamaican lips so easily. Barbados beat us to it, jamaican beer this week our prime minister made throwing off the colonial yoke a top priority.

King Charles and Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness at Buckingham Palace, London, September 2022. Last modified on Thu 19 Jan 2023 10. A post-Elizabethan era is taking shape here in Jamaica. And it looks like a republic. But then, the signs have long been there.

Little or no notice was taken in Jamaica of the Queen’s jubilee last year. There was no bunting, no official party at King’s House. Queen’s rule over the colonies of the British empire. The reparations fire became a volcano in November 2021, when Barbados became a republic. If Barbados could do it, so could we! Removing the Queen as head of state immediately became Jamaica’s most popular topic of discussion.