Fifty years after Jamaican independence:

"Jamaica would have been better off being part of the British Empire rather than an independent state, according to a poll taken by local newspapers.

Results from a survey commissioned by The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper showed that 60 percent of respondents supported this notion, 17 percent rejected it."
                -International Business Times, June 29, 2011.

Image: One of the 121,397 Jamaican children to turn out to welcome Queen Elizabeth II, 2002.