Jamaica to become a republic, pledges Simpson-Miller

Jamaica’s newly sworn in prime minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has pledged to ditch the Queen as her country’s official Head of State.

Portia Simpson-Miller said she would sever colonial-era links by abandoning the British monarch and adopting a republican form of government.

The Privy Council in London will also be replaced with Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice as its highest court of appeal in a bid to ‘end judicial surveillance from London’.

Taking the oath of office, she said: ‘I love the Queen; she is a beautiful lady.’ But then, speaking to the audience of 10,000 in Jamaican patois, she quipped: ‘But I think time come.’

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