Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal visit to Jamaica is being overshadowed by an open letter published on Monday signed by 100 prominent Jamaicans asking the couple to just “sey yuh sorry!” for Britain’s colonial past. There was also a protest on Tuesday in advance of their arrival, calling for slavery reparations from Britain. Marco Werman speaks with the person who wrote the open letter to the royal couple and took part in Tuesday’s protest: Rosalea Hamilton, the founder of Jamaica’s Institute of Law and Economics.
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