World News / 21 March 2022
Chaos for the Cambridges in the Caribbean
That’s being a bit dramatic, but alliteration called… Prince William and Kate have arrived in Belize for their first joint overseas trip since the start of the pandemic. The week-long visit, which will also include stops in Jamaica and the Bahamas to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, had been seen by royal watchers as an attempt to shore up support for the monarchy after Barbados cut ties last year and became a republic. But the trip took an unexpected turn just before the Cambridges arrived when a dispute broke out between villagers at a cacao farm and a conservation charity that Prince William is a patron of. Belize TV reported that the chair of the Indian Creek village Sebastian Shol said the tension surrounded the “meaning of consent in the context of communal land rights, rights to lands that were expunged in the colonial period by the British,“ adding “we don’t want them to land on our land.” A spokesperson for Kensington Palace said the visit would be moved to a different cacao-producing village.
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