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The Associated Press reports:
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.
Barbados didn’t need permission from the U.K. to become a republic, although the island will remain a member of the Commonwealth Realm. It’s an event that the Caribbean hasn’t experienced since the 1970s, when Guyana, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago became republics.
Barbados became independent from the United Kingdom in November 1966, more than three centuries after English settlers arrived and turned the island into a wealthy sugar colony based on the work of hundreds of thousands of African slaves.
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Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. https://t.co/kZnZ45IfDa
— NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington) November 30, 2021
Barbados became a republic on Tuesday, cutting ties with Queen Elizabeth II and ending nearly 400 years of British rule. The island swore in its first president, Sandra Mason, at a ceremony attended by Prince Charles and Rihanna.https://t.co/7df327EP8u pic.twitter.com/MkRlA2URLF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 30, 2021
As Barbados said goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and transformed into a republic, Prince Charles acknowledged the “appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history.” https://t.co/12u2tPnvEe pic.twitter.com/B58u20I0pF
— ABC News (@ABC) November 30, 2021