Quite amusing seeing the

[Lazie]

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs of Jamaica pleading with both the government and opposition to come together to move forward with the constitutional reform ... only for His Majesty's agent posing as opposition leader to stand up reminding us why this reform has stalled. How the heck you want to separate from the king when an Englishman is waiting to be PM? An Englishman who has been NOTHING but an obstacle to the process.

[Jangle]

Opposition boycotts constitutional reform meeting

THE uphill task the Government faces as it embarks on the process to make Jamaica a republic while severing ties with the British Monarchy was on full display Wednesday when the parliamentary Opposition boycotted the second meeting of the joint select committee examining the Constitution (Amendment) Republic Bill.

A week earlier, on January 15, Opposition Leader Mark Golding, who is also president of the People’s National Party (PNP), posed four questions to Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, one of which was to clarify the stance of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Golding had indicated that the answers to his questions could determine the Opposition’s future participation in the committee meetings.

With deep distrust between the two political parties, Golding has insisted that the process to make Jamaica a republic while ditching King Charles as Jamaica’s head of State must be twinned with making the CCJ Jamaica’s final appellate court. He has argued that it makes better sense to also cut ties with the United Kingdom Privy Council, currently Jamaica’s final appellate court, at the same time the country abolishes the monarchy.

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025...eform-meeting/


This is giving flashbacks of Trump making the Republicans in Congress to forego the joint partisan border reform bill in order to have something to campaign on, which in hindsight, proved to be very effective.