{"id":21227,"date":"2022-03-22T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:46:54","slug":"people-of-belize-reject-will-and-kate-jamaicas-about-to-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/people-of-belize-reject-will-and-kate-jamaicas-about-to-do-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"People of Belize reject Will and Kate &#8211; Jamaica&#8217;s about to do the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The UK state charm offensive headed by the royals Will and Kate has not started well. This article by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/global\/world-analysis\/2022\/03\/21\/people-of-belize-reject-will-and-kate-jamaicas-about-to-do-the-same\/\"> Eliza Egret<\/a> was first posted by <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/global\/world-analysis\/2022\/03\/21\/people-of-belize-reject-will-and-kate-jamaicas-about-to-do-the-same\/\"><strong><em>The Canary<\/em><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/global\/world-analysis\/2022\/03\/21\/people-of-belize-reject-will-and-kate-jamaicas-about-to-do-the-same\/\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PEOPLE OF BELIZE REJECT WILL AND KATE &#8211; JAMAICA&#8217;S ABOUT TO DO THE SAME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/william-kate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21228\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/william-kate-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/william-kate-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/william-kate-768x402.jpg 768w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/william-kate.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As William and Kate embark on a charm offensive tour of the Caribbean, people are taking to the streets and social media to let them know they\u2019re not welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The tour to commemorate the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee began on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/prince-william-kate-tour-central-america-caribbean\/\">19 March<\/a>. Their first stop is Belize, and locals have not let the visit go unchallenged. In a victory for the people \u2013 and embarrassingly for the Royals \u2013 a visit to Indian Creek village was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingbelizenews.com\/2022\/03\/18\/indian-creek-villagers-feel-disrespected-protest-royals-coming-to-their-village\/\">hastily cancelled<\/a>\u00a0due to protests. William and Kate had been due to visit a cacao farm owned by Flora and Fauna International (FFI), of which the prince is a patron. But residents held up signs saying \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingbelizenews.com\/2022\/03\/18\/indian-creek-villagers-feel-disrespected-protest-royals-coming-to-their-village\/\">Colonial legacy of theft continues<\/a>\u201d because FFI continues to prevent the villagers from accessing land. The villagers said they felt \u201cdisrespected\u201d, as they weren\u2019t even told about the impending visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Britain should apologise for \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next on William and Kate\u2019s tour is Jamaica. People plan to take to the streets in the capital of Kingston too. As race correspondent Nadine White\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nadine_Writes\/status\/1505670552371015682\">tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>NEW: A protest is due to take place in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jamaica?src=hashtag_click\">#Jamaica<\/a> on Tuesday as Prince William &amp; Kate visit the country during their royal tour. Organisers have also penned an open letter to the monarchy calling for slavery reparations. More on this soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jamaica60?src=hashtag_click\">#Jamaica60<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AdvocatesNetwork?src=hashtag_click\">#AdvocatesNetwork<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-8-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21229\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-8-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-8-1.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-8-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">__________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK state charm offensive headed by the royals Will and Kate has not started well. This article by Eliza Egret was first posted by The Canary. &nbsp; PEOPLE OF BELIZE REJECT WILL AND KATE &#8211; JAMAICA&#8217;S ABOUT TO DO THE SAME As William and Kate embark on a charm offensive tour of the Caribbean,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855,1858,1867,1846,1874,1868,8975],"tags":[9085],"class_list":["post-21227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploitation-and-emancipation","category-oppression-liberation","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-british-imperialism","category-republicanism","category-against-imperialism","category-black-liberation","tag-author-eliza-egret"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":3302,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21241,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions\/21241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}