Queen has to go - It’s for Jamaicans to decide - Portia

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reiterated the Jamaica Government’s position on shifting Jamaica further away from its neo-colonial state by putting plans in place to remove the Queen as Jamaica’s head of state. In an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Observer yesterday, Simpson Miller said that utterances by Shaun Bailey, special advisor to Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, would not throw the island off course in its quest to move away from the monarchy. “What we said before, we are sticking to it,” Simpson Miller said at the end of the service of thanksgiving for the life of athletics administrator Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook at St Augustine’s Chapel on Kingston College’s North Street campus.