In Jamaica, minister suggests multi-phased constitutional reform process could involve intermediate referendums

Legal and Constitutional Affairs Minister Marlene Malahoo Forte suggested on [18 April] that Jamaicans could be called on to participate in more than one referendum as the Government works to overhaul the nation’s Constitution. Malahoo Forte, who is the co-chair of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), was giving an update in Parliament a month after the members of the body were publicly announced. The work of the committee is being executed in three phases: bringing the Constitution home by having it enacted as an instrument of the Parliament of Jamaica; abolition of the constitutional monarchy with the establishment of the Republic of Jamaica; and other matters that fall within the provisions of the Constitution for which a referendum is required to amend. The minister said they would only proceed with matters on which they have consensus. [...] She said that the CRC has hit the ground running and that five meetings with the full committee have been held in the last month.
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