Jamaica looking to remove King Charles as head of state

[@kman5768]

Way to go Jamaica!

[@Gareebaa84]

Congrats to Jamaica!!!🎉 Thanks for your leadership

[@Gokash4672]

I don’t see why not! Go Jamaica 👍❤️

[@remdhanemed2093]

Well done Jamaica 🇯🇲❤️👏👏

[@camekarhodenchoga6531]

Amen..I cosign! Peace and power to my ancestors

[@muhamadna5157]

Canada should seriously consider this. You wouldn’t want to be the last country to leave (having Charles as your King) after the rest of the “Commonwealth” ditched him.

[@O6i]

Canada cant because we have alll these French people the Brits left behind

[@Eurotool]

While I fully agree, it's a Pandora's box. All territorial indigenous treaties were signed with the Crown. It's going to be a mess.

[@PatrickRKay]

For canada it’s virtually impossible so it will never happen

[@mstt3530]

Canada unfortunately cannot. Quebec will most likely push for stronger measures against Anglophones. The government doesn’t want to deal with that.

[@gonefishing4204]

In all truth, what has being part of monarchy ever done for any nation other than paying taxes to the royal family to do absolutely nothing.

[@dersturmerofjewery6038]

You should ask the question why Jamaica is still under Bank of England control

[@retm6765]

So true they are freeloaders!

[@tomsmith5734]

They are freeloader's!

[@silvergtotwinturbo9984]

@@dersturmerofjewery6038 174 countries around the world still are.

[@dersturmerofjewery6038]

@@silvergtotwinturbo9984 joos

[@chrisfournier6144]

Thank goodness they squeaked “reparations” in there before the end of the clip. That’s really what it’s all about. History bad, money good!

[@dellboid]

Ironic thing is Jamaica already has received over £300m in basically free money from the UK government over the past 25 years (I don't see anyone giving the UK free money) and on top of that, this whole argument doesn't seem to be founded on anything intellectual - like no one is stating exactly what Jamaica stands to gain by not being a commonwealth member. No body can name 1 thing. I get the impression that it's something a demonstrably corrupt government wants so I suspect they personally stand to gain from it, whereas normal Jamaican citizens will more than likely will lose out as per usual.

[@gordonp4675]

What great news! Canada should follow!

[@floridapiegaming8068]

We already have

[@jptrainor]

@@floridapiegaming8068 We have? We still have a Governer General, and officially the UK monarch is the Canadian head of state.

[@kman5768]

@@floridapiegaming8068 stop inhaling the weed dude!

[@captainsgrog4991]

Yes please....Canada next. The toxic woke culture headed up by JT is really not a great attachment for us here in the UK.

[@superkev5659]

@@kman5768his world must be nice 😂💯

[@jptrainor]

Long overdue in Canada.

[@iMickyrich]

It's about time for Canada.

[@jptrainor]

Long overdue.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Good luck rewriting the constitution. 🙃

[@iMickyrich]

@@grandmufftwerkin9037 Sounds like a minor roadblock? Removing king, the head of state vs updating a constitution?

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

@@iMickyrich 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You don't know what's written into the constitution do you? 🙃

[@michaelestrella4408]

​@@iMickyrich Good luck with: 1) all provinces, House of Commons/House of Senate, and others in agreeing to change the Constitution [So far, we've attempted 2 times to amend it: Meechlake & Charlottetown; that not even related to the Monarchy, and it nearly broke the country with the 1995 Referendum.]; 2) renegotiating centuries old treaties with the Indigenous Nations, and how it affects Treaty Rights [Best of Luck telling Indigenous peoples their treaty rights could be voided as it no longer has the Crown as a Fiduciary]; 3) legalities in transferring Crown Assets/Crown Entities to the new republican government; 4) politicians agreeing on how they will amend the constitution; Not a "minor roadblock" considering the constitutional mess and the disappointment it will bring just to change a figurehead with no political power.

[@JogBird]

good, canada needs to do the same #NotMyKing

[@dennis2376]

Problem is the native community does not want it. :)

[@jeanbolduc5818]

You mean old english extremists speaking from Toronto and Victoria

[@dennis2376]

@@jeanbolduc5818 No the native community is against it.

[@Tzimisce]

@@jeanbolduc5818 The problem is that the sovereignty treaties the Indigenous Peoples signed are with the British crown, not with Canada or it's government.

[@alejandrom3841]

Actually he is your king

[@Cameron-ko3te]

It’s way to Go Jamaica glad that you guys realized this.

[@ianthienathaniel2175]

Way to go Jamaica

[@retm6765]

respect to jamaica

[@whitekuk4679]

The Monarchy really does not represent a people so it's kind of just an outdated thing.

[@yvaliquette]

Yes!!!! Canada next!

[@ailutepdavid7766]

The majority of us Jamaicans who support this are millennials and gen zs. Older, educated Jamaicans also support the movement. However, a recent survey shows that only a 50-something percent of the population surveyed are in support. This shows the need for a wider understanding of the legal and political implications of the move. Eurocentrism and slavery are constant in the refrain of almost everyone who speaks about this change, with no one truly understanding the functions of the head of state enshrined within the Constitution. The head of state's approval is needed for the appointment of the PM, alongside various parliamentary functions. Perhaps more importantly, are other sections within the Constitution which will have to have to be changed simultaneously, and I can think of no better one than removal of the Privy Council as the final appellate court, as it would be ridiculous to continue appealing to His majesty. Several years ago, an attempted referendum and push within Parliament to move from the PC to the Caribbean Court of Justice, was thwarted. The irony in that being that Jamaica was the main CARICOM country championing the establishment of the CCJ as an appellate court verse in our laws, customs, markedly cheaper than the PC, and another hallmark of independence. They must mark the lessons from that disgrace and properly educate people on Constitution before they can make an informed decision favourable to the practical as well as the symbol goals we have. Our contribution to the Commonwealth may be sparse, but the contribution that matters that to ourselves as evinced by other republic states still seen as a part of the Commonwealth - Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, India, and other vast majorities which have been republic since independence or became republic after independence. Do not confuse republicanism with independence and suppose that the former is necessary for the latter. Symbolically departing from the Commonwealth and the UK which has done nothing for us and for which some netizens have said 'we have done nothing for' removes us from the symbiotic relationship of nothingness and can leave the other major Euro-populated and developed commonwealth countries to continue as they are. However, to get this result the state needs to inform the people or they will be in for a marginal (if at all) favourable referendum in 2025.

[@dellboid]

Thank you for this comment as it actually gives a reason and a bit of information regarding this whole movement as opposed to the usual idealistic 'freeeeeedoooommm' cry based on little rational thought you get from many in regards to things like this. That being said I do have one question - Is it demonstrably true that the UK/ commonwealth has done nothing for Jamaica? What about all the hundreds of millions worth of aid the UK has granted Jamaica? What about the hundreds of millions Jamaica is recieving and going to receive from the UK between 2023 and 2029 as part of the UK-Caribbean regional development partnership? All of this for free. Interest, house prices and cost of living in the UK is spiralling out of control and the quality of life in the UK is diminishing fast - yet despite all that the UK government is still pouring money into the Caribbean, and Jamaica somehow feels it has a raw deal? This makes little sense to me.

[@ruqhayam1214]

Bravo Jamaica ! Support open minded new generations 👏👏👏

[@allenfullerton6693]

the monarcy should be no longer ! all the terrible things they have done too peaple all over the world ? I have no respect for the monarcy.

[@dennis2376]

And the US Republic any different or any other country? 🤔

[@Isaac_the_Organist]

Don't forget the French Republic

[@jameydenison2045]

Now, now, let's not be rash. Let's list all of the great things about having a monarchy: 1.___________________________

[@Isaac_the_Organist]

@@jameydenison2045 Let's make a list about Republics too: 1. Commonwealth of England 1649-1659, ruled by a dictator 2. French Republic, Try number five 3. The United States, last President tried to through a coup.

[@jameydenison2045]

@@Isaac_the_Organist List all of the atrocities committed by various forms of government and what do you have? Atrocities. Monarchies have been notorious throughout human history to be some of the worst. At least with the creation of the United States we have a good Constitution and Bill of Rights. But it is well that you have noted that men are flawed. There will never be a perfect government instituted by man. Thankfully our tyrants get a limited amount of time to screw things up before they are voted out.

[@remdhanemed2093]

Bravo Jamaica 🎉👏👏👏

[@genevievesirois3338]

Bravo Jamaica !!! An example to follow !!

[@dellboid]

Why?

[@user__100]

Britain took $45 Trillion from India over 200 years of rule

[@aperipatetic2827]

The muslims took 80 million lives over 600 years of rule, all civilizations are colonizers, and thats what makes them civilizations.

[@captainsgrog4991]

And we spent it wisely. Thankyou India the cess pool. 🙏🏻🫶🏻

[@user__100]

@@captainsgrog4991 Karma is coming for you

[@Nazarene_Judaism]

@@user__100 Britain will be ruled by islam in 50 years

[@cidaliaborges370]

Good. Canada should gi next.

[@dellboid]

Why?

[@Sham1232]

Yassssssssss🎉🎉🎉

[@littlebopeep3377]

Like the monarchy gives a crap about Jamaica.

[@popcorn3078]

It should have happen long time.. 😊

[@MEGIDIOT]

Canada next 🙏🙏🙏

[@O6i]

The world will finally change for the better

[@LeechyKun]

No reparations if you remove him. That should be the deal. If you want him gone then you can't suckle the teet no more.

[@T_Barrington]

well endowed tribute

[@annalore5513]

Great idea...

[@user__100]

Britain killed 4 million Indians in Bengal in 1943 by imposing a famine

[@walts4425]

Pesky little things World Wars they tend to get in the way.

[@kman5768]

They were not stolen, they were forcefully kidnapped!

[@jimcourt9164]

PLEASE GO.. and take your people back too.

[@dy6682]

Big up Jamaica 🇯🇲.

[@alejandrom3841]

Why

[@joygernautm6641]

Good. I’m sorry, but King Charles is so embarrassing.

[@munahassanmohamed2756]

Good Jamaica 🎉

[@MARCUSDRONEVIDEOSHD]

good news channel

[@jimcourt9164]

Can they also take back the 1000s of their nationals that commit a high proportion of crimes in U.K.

[@delisaduncanson8092]

Yes send them back with all of our reparations. You who today living high off the CANE! Know your history

[@mrg8581]

Slavery existed all over the world for thousands of years. But it always only about African slaves and no one else 🙄.

[@KmT81]

I do agree that Jamaica does this ! Its time now to have for them to have their own President

[@Shakira.Scarlett]

They will in jesus name ❤

[@beverlyann9929]

I do hope Canada follows

[@kinlol]

canada should do it!!!

[@canadiansurvivalist7222]

Goldfish don't think 🤔 they react Kings and queens bahhhahahaa ridiculous

[@Joanna-il2ur]

We in Britain are fine with that. However, be careful what you wish for. One of the justifications for Jamaican settlement here is based on the colonial past. Sever all that and why should they come here?

[@jameydenison2045]

To commit the final act of throwing tomatoes maybe.

[@moiscotv]

It's okay, its not like the Jamaicans offer anything important to the Commonwealth Realms. It's big news if Canada, Australia, or New Zealand start deciding to declare full independence.

[@jameydenison2045]

Your point is well taken, but let's see if this is the beginning of something viral.

[@Evemeister12]

Charles' great grand children will become monarch before Jamaica becomes a republic

[@Atrail_Mckinley4786]

When is canada gonna leave king charles as head of state

[@TheRaidoRune]

Don't destroy it though, move it elsewhere ie. a museum. To Jamaican nation and its on going build up this monument should be a constant reminder of the past for the future generations or the youth not to let the same repeat. Never destroy monuments or books, learn from mistakes the others had done by removing their historical markers.

[@superkev5659]

Move it to the bottom of the ocean 💯

[@alenagoddess2400]

I'd say they weren't the only ones!

[@David-yw2lv]

Great Britain should do the same

[@justtime2670]

We want to get rid of the government as well

[@angelamunoz2889]

Good for them! They are not obligated to stay in the commonwealth…..they are free to go 👋…..The UK 🇬🇧 should focus/care for the 🌎 and it’s own citizens and build relationships with other countries like Japan 🇯🇵 or the Scandinavian countries…. 😃

[@captainsgrog4991]

Is this satire? We literally have great relationships with all the countries you've listed you dumbass! 😂 I agree that we should look after OUR OWN first though! Bye bye murder capital of the world

[@jackjaamaiava3822]

Well done Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@paulcooper5568]

This decision is long overdue. Go ahead.

[@jameydenison2045]

Now if Great Britain would do the same. The monarchy is too expensive to be sustainable and has outlived it's relevancy, if it ever had any.

[@marxistliberalhater4459]

Canada next!

[@superkev5659]

Yes good job Jamaica get rid of that colonizer out of your country 💯🎉

[@photoanalyst]

GOOD! ABOUT TIME BREAKING AWAY FROM REPTILIAN CROWN!

[@jameydenison2045]

Thar be dragons there. Cheers!

[@chandlerdempsey8412]

God save the King!

[@zinamac8611]

They focus on the history of slavery, but forget that Jamaica bought many Jacubite slaves from Scotland.

[@1Drgnrydr]

The world should ditch the monarchy .

[@youtubech6090]

Canada must be republic

[@titusmccarthy]

Should be an anarchy.

[@kawaiii7225]

should've happened a long time ago

[@stevenmacdonald229]

Jamaica you say...Let them do what they want, let's be honest it's no great loss, nobody really gives a toss what they do.

[@jameydenison2045]

Well I don't know, you and I were interested enough to watch the video and then make comments about it. So there is that.

[@stevenmacdonald229]

@@jameydenison2045 It was all over the internet news ye nugget, I didn't realise by putting a post up meant it was on my mind 24 hours a day. Fud.

[@dellboid]

​@@jameydenison2045I agree with this. And Jamaica is a significant and important nation within its region and its people deserve our respect as much as anyone else in the world.

[@joshparsons207]

Canada will only do so if Australia and New Zealand does first I don't know why we need them to do it first

[@McLKeith]

It’s time Canada rethought its ties to the monarchy. Congratulations Jamaica, on this subject you’re ahead of Canada.

[@SC-vo9eh]

Monarchies are long past their due date. Good for JA

[@therealblairsmith]

The British did not invent Slavery , can't change the world's past and continually look back through today's lenses. They did help put an end to the slavery of the time. Hundreds of Brits were lost in that fight which can never end it seems. Today's slavery is a little bit different though, isn't it? 👓

[@simoneletter3912]

You must have this believe that we jamaican want to be held under bristh rules

[@alkebulanman3280]

What about Justice? Go away with your lies and PROPAGANDA!

[@theetortoise]

Right 🙄 they only reaped the rewards of it, accruing capital (and interest from that capital) while their subjects suffered. If they can claim to have ended it, they should claim to have benefited from it, apologize, and pay reparations.

[@johnsmith-kc5hl]

@@theetortoise Who alive in Jamaica today was ever enslaved by the British?

[@brianjones2384]

​@@johnsmith-kc5hl It affects everyone in that country because they would have been more productive as a nation.

[@georgenesbeth8742]

They should do that a long time ago what are they waiting on from they see that you have to get a visa to go to England it means they are finished with you

[@FactPointVideo]

Jamaica is free to do what it wants. That's not an issue. The relentlessness with which CBC promotes the republican cause in Canada through repeated stories like this one is a strange part of the Corporation's ideology of grievance. Perhaps they would serve their audience better by asking First Nations if they want to do away with the Monarchy in Canada. Spoiler alert: They don't.

[@alohatoerings2484]

Remove “him!” it’s time for all the people the locals the past brutality goes…..

[@thesmithersy]

What were they smoking? Oh wait a minute.....

[@DonnaJenkins-v3e]

maybe we should have no government

[@Peorhum]

The American influence. No need to do so Jamaica.

[@user-uk6yz1my8h]

Best decision ever. It will uplift the people.

[@Eurotool]

Burn, Babylon, burn

[@krystaljapzon3205]

❤❤❤

[@MEGIDIOT]

That’s a sexy pair of statues

[@davidhorsley2717]

This is, I suspect, a a political project by a political class obsessed with a less than informed historical understanding of Slavery, the wider British Empire and the legal and constitutional process by which countries of the Commonwealth gained independence. Things may not be as easy as people realise because there is more to becoming a republic than just getting rid of the Monarchy, the whole way the law, nationality and citizenship are codified would change. Will a proper constitutional convention lead to an informed debate? Is a referendum result a foregone conclusion? I am not so sure on both counts.

[@navr8307]

CBC just showed us all a BBC on national television

[@beautifulone5509]

It's about time! BYE!!

[@rahulshan8820]

Yaaahhhh

[@transcend3145]

👍

[@burdock4419]

Docrtine of discovery must fall

[@changsiah2]

I have a little mixed feelings and I'm from Singapore Although I don't know how King is going to be ruling the country and in Queen Elizabeth has been so far not done anything evil But I understand and respect your opinions about British rule and everything but so far they they haven't done evil has been working well with the Us and other countries

[@faribasabaei9822]

That is great news It's time to remove the those free loaders . Canada must to do it too .

[@sandrastewart2450]

Lucky jamaca i hope britain does it soon but i doubt it were bloody lumberd with him

[@dennis2376]

Slavery was not only done by Britain but also African people.

[@jeycalc6877]

not only that it was in fact african people who enslaved africans and sold them to the british

[@marxistliberalhater4459]

It began with the African people and continued after England denounced it. Too bad Jamaica is too blind to see it.

[@kpartners5487]

And is that your justification for travelling 6000 miles down the Atlantic looking for people to buy and kidnap?? Why not use your own mother, father, families, and neighbours????

[@boogsybrooks]

You know the difference between slavery and chattel slavery? I doubt you do.

[@-ucanthandledatruth01-12]

What do you mean "looking"? Eh? Do it *NOW*!! Show them you have SOME dignity. And don't just mean it appear as though you've severed ties, but yet still be contractually obligated to Europeans. We must Stop being the social instruments to the primary benefit of other groups.

[@adwoaghana1622]

Great news. Its been hanging for toolong. What’s stalling it?

[@annalore5513]

the monarchy NEEDS 2b abolished.

[@jameydenison2045]

I can 4c the benefit of that.

[@jazzgill4011]

Oh we are allowed to comment here. Somethings not right

[@UncleBuZ]

Idol worship.

[@dystopianalphaomega609]

What a myopic view. Literally no country in world history has done more to end slavery and the slave trade than Britain. At great expense and effort as well.

[@francesbernard2445]

We must feel some empathy for people who had to watch the only people in Britain who were trying to help end slavery at the time having to bribe the slave owners into not treating their employees only like slaves. While often continued to be mistreated anyway.

[@kman5768]

If it happened to your family and ancestors, you will be singing a different tune!

[@titusmccarthy]

LOL. What a pack of lies. British are disgusting.

[@mangojulie123]

Yes. But what did they do after slavery was abolished? They then brought indentured laborers from other colonial territories under appalling conditions in order to continue the economic pillage of the former enslaved territories, and by more forcefully imposing their colonial rule on those colonies. It wasn't a bed of roses, was it?

[@dellboid]

​@@kman5768I think you'll find that 99.9% of all Britons did have it happen to their ancestors. There's this warped view that the absolute super elites that run countries were the 99% of everyone in history and the extreme poverty and malnutrition that affected the UK historically through virtually its entire history didn't happen. Normal people in Britain has only really enjoyed any kind of real social prosperity since the end of the second world war (after we sent our youth to get butchered on the contient in the millions) - after the end of empire!

[@marxistliberalhater4459]

LOL. Yeah baby!

[@jeycalc6877]

We should only get rid of monarchy is Quebec agrees to stop equalization

[@jeycalc6877]

@言行一致 its possible

[@jccarriere3719]

Everyone wants to seperate but still look for handout...hahaha