A Royal Send-Off.

ROYAL weddings; REPARATIONS for historical injustices; RELIGIOUS leaders; POWER (Social sciences); HEADS of state; POLITICIANS; SLAVE trade; XENOPHOBIA

In the past seven months, politicians representing Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Jamaica have announced that their countries are taking steps to remove the British monarch as their head of state and to become republics. On Friday, March 25, exactly one week after the royal couple touched down in Belize, they had their final dinner in Nassau, hosted by Belize's governor-general. Throwback: Prince William and Kate Middleton evoke an earlier colonial era during a military parade in Jamaica. FEATURES ON TUESDAY, MARCH 15, SIX MONTHS BEfore the death of Queen Elizabeth II would reignite a conversation about the British crown's colonial legacy, the chairman of Indian Creek, an Indigenous Maya village in southern Belize, received a call. [Extracted from the article]

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