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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Kate Chappell

Jamaica cool on Charles' coronation as it eyes break with monarchy

Steven Golding, president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, a black nationalist fraternal organization founded in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey, admires a bust of Garvey in Kingston, Jamaica, March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Eric Cox

While Britain prepares to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, its former colony Jamaica is distinctly cool on having a new head of state from a distant land.

The process to sever ties with the British monarchy is underway, following in the footsteps of another former Caribbean possession, Barbados.

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