Jamaica is 'moving on' and embracing its destiny as an independent country, its leader told Britain's Prince William on Wednesday, later calling the Caribbean nation's switch to a republican model 'inevitable'.
Britain's Prince William expressed 'sorrow' for his country's role in the slave trade at a state dinner in Jamaica on Wednesday eveningKINGSTON - Jamaica is"moving on" and embracing its destiny as an independent country, its leader told Britain's Prince William on Wednesday, later calling the Caribbean nation's switch to a republican model"inevitable".
"I want to express my profound sorrow. Slavery was abhorrent, and it should never have happened," William said, calling the transatlantic slave trade an atrocity that"forever stains our history." "It is inevitable that we will move towards becoming a republic in fulfillment of the will of the people of Jamaica and our ambitions of becoming an independent, developed and prosperous country," Holness tweeted after the men met Wednesday.
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