Removing the Queen, Republican Status - Just the Start
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20220424/patrick-robinson-irrelevance-readiness-independence#slideshow-2 I believe that truly becoming 'independent' is not dependent on words on a piece of constitutional paper. I guess that makes me a gradualist? This is one of the few occasions where I agree with Prime Minister Holness that it does not matter what you say or what is written, it's what you do, how you act that defines you. Despite the political rhetoric to the contrary, the way 'independent' Jamaica has acted so far, the level of political and constitutional discourse at the grassroots level, the corruption, the violence and the general lack of any discipline in the country defines most Jamaicans as uneducated simpletons who should not be responsible for themselves. One consequence of the 'independence' we have been granted so far is that Jamaica has become such a terrible place that most Jamaicans who can, choose to leave. Our 'independence&#