It also includes two noted KCs, and the chair of the national reparations committee (another lawyer), while Christian religious groups are represented by two pastors, one of whom is a lawyer. It includes the attorney general, the Senate president, government and opposition senators and members of parliament. The CRC, described as lawyer-heavy, is co-chaired by the minister of legal and constitutional affairs and a former head of the Jamaica Defence Force. “The real work comes with decolonising our institutions, systems, processes, and psyches,” one realist commented. Jamaicans realise that removing the monarch as head of state is just the beginning. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images Andrew Holness (right) shakes hands with King Charles at Buckingham Palace last September.
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