KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Britain Monday sought to present the peace of mind that Jamaica’s head of state won’t require a visa to enter the UK, as London sought to reply a query that had been posted on social media by the Minister of Authorized and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte.
In an announcement posted on X, previously Twitter, on Sunday, Marlene Forte, who can also be the co-chairperson of the Authorities’s Constitutional Reform Committee tasked with driving the method to Jamaica’s transfer in direction of republican standing, questioned why the Governor Normal be “required to use for & get hold of a visa to journey to the UK on official enterprise?”.
She additionally famous that the “Independence Structure of Jamaica 1962 offers the deepest safety to British Monarch in Govt of Jamaica. Governor-Normal is private rep of King Charles III”.
In her query, the Minister tagged the British Excessive Commissioner to Jamaica, Judith Slater Slater, and the UK Residence Workplace.
However in a response on X, the British Excessive Commissioner stated that the pinnacle of state doesn’t require a visa to go to the UK.
“The Governor Normal and Woman Allen usually are not required to acquire a visa, however reasonably a vignette, or stamp, is put of their passports which states that they’re exempt from requiring visas. That is renewed each two years,” Slater stated.
Jamaicans should get hold of a visa to go to the UK, together with going to the London-based Privy Council, the nation’s closing court docket of enchantment.
Britain imposed a visa restriction on Jamaica in 2003, arguing it was an immigration measure.
Earlier this month, Malahoo Forte stated Prime Minister Andrew Holness will, in “quick order,” disclose the administration’s place on whether or not Jamaica ought to accede to the appellate jurisdiction of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Courtroom of Justice (CCJ) established in February 2001 by the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) governments to interchange the Privy Council.https://caribbeantimes.com/grenada-grenada-to-host-a-major-regional-tourism-conference-next-year/.
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