Pro-republican campaigners in Jamaica this week renewed their longstanding demand to select their own head of state – and a poll showed a majority of the public were in favour.

The Caribbean island’s leader says its people want a ‘Barbadian head of state’ and aim to achieve the goal by November 2021.

Dozens of countries fear Boris Johnson is hindering reappointment of secretary general.

Prince Charles has arrived in Barbados as the Caribbean island prepares to remove the Queen as its head-of-state and become a republic.