God Save the King’ doesn’t fall from Jamaican lips so easily. Barbados jamaican thyme us to it, but 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.