{"id":1698,"date":"2012-01-06T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:09:04","slug":"jamaica-to-become-a-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica to Become a Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Miller Simpson, announces at her inauguration\u00a0that Jamaica would be well on the way to becoming a republic by the end of the year.\u00a0 A previous attempt stalled in 2007.\u00a0 Jamaica&#8217;s\u00a0change\u00a0could influence other small Caribbean nations.\u00a0 Domenica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have already become republics while Barbados has\u00a0previously announced it intended to.\u00a0 Jamaica&#8217;s move is considered to be motivated by anti-slavery sentiment and\u00a0a desire to distance itself from the colonial power and from\u00a0final appeals to the Privy Council.\u00a0 The decision by the new Jamaican\u00a0Government will\u00a0have to pass at\u00a0referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Miller Simpson, announces at her inauguration\u00a0that Jamaica would be well on the way to becoming a republic by the end of the year.\u00a0 A previous attempt stalled in 2007.\u00a0 Jamaica&#8217;s\u00a0change\u00a0could influence other small Caribbean nations.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}