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No More Monarchy here, says most of the remaining Commonwealth Realm
It is a grey day in London a week after the recent Coronation of King Charles III
GLOBAL — As we proceed past the tumultuously planned coronation of King Charles III in the United Kingdom, change is erupting in far flung nations in the realm.
The Caribbean
Of the fourteen nations in the realm of the Commonwealth, eight are located in the Caribbean, down one since the removal of the Queen as Barbados’ Head of State in 2021.
Matching calls for change in Scotland and Ireland, are moving efforts in the Caribbean to formally remove the King as Head of State.
“The move towards republicanism is grounded in the belief that it’s time for former colonized nations to really live their independence and claim self-determination and not be under a monarchical system,” said Verene Shepherd, the chair of Jamaica’s National Commission on Reparations and chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Now, in some of the quickest reformation actions to ever occur in the region, all eight countries have officially cut colonial ties to stand on their own as republic states:
- In Jamaica and Grenada, popular…
