BLOOMBERG – Jamaican lawmakers will debate a constitutional amendment that would replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and make the island a republic.
The proposal is a “major action item” on the new government’s 2016-2017 legislative agenda, and would replace the Queen with a Non-Executive President, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said Thursday in a speech to parliament posted on the government’s website.
Jamaican Labour Party leader Andrew Holness scraped a narrow win in general elections in February as voters opted for promises of tax cuts and a higher minimum wage over the previous government’s austerity program. The legislative agenda also includes a proposal to set fixed election dates and term limits for the Prime Minister, as well as a proposal to fully legalize marijuana for “specified purposes.”
The measures would need to be passed by Parliament to become law. The government also plans to set up a single anti-corruption body, and reform the tax and pension system, Allen said.
The Queen is also head of state of other Caribbean nations, including Barbados and the Bahamas.
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Her role has either expired !!
God save the Queen.
instead you ask god to save you you asking god to save the queen, smdh the queen dont even know or care about you
Why don't you try and get a British Passport!!!??? Ask her for one next time she is in Town!!
yall right i agree with yall they not doing anything for yall to me just to even get a British visa is a hassle
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