KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 30, 2021 - President of the People's National Party and Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding has extended congratulations to the government and the people of Barbados on becoming a Republic, officially cutting ties with the British Monarchy and casting off its colonial past.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, November 30, 2021 - After four centuries of colonization, at midnight Tuesday November 29, Barbados transitioned from a Commonwealth country to become an independent parliamentary republic with Her Excellency Dame Sandra Mason, being sworn in as the republic’s first president.
MONTEGO BAY November 28, 2021 - At midnight on Monday November 29, Barbados will transition to being The Republic of Barbados, 55 years after gaining political independence from Britain on November 30, 1966. The Queen remained head of state, and the country stayed within the realm of the British Commonwealth.
KINGSTON, October 28, 2021 - Opposition Leader Mark Golding has lamented the length of time it is taking to remove the Queen as its Head of State and wants Jamaica to follow the lead by the government of Barbados in moving towards a republican status.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, October 20, 2021 - As Barbados prepares to transition to a republic in a few weeks, the House and Senate came together to elect Dame Sandra Mason as the first President of Barbados, another historic milestone on the road to the Republic.
MONTEGO BAY, October 14, 2021 - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amour Mottley on Wednesday held bi-lateral talks with Vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, reiterated that the relationship between the United States and Barbados was a very important one.
NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2021 - “How many more variants of COVID-19 must arrive before a worldwide action plan for vaccinations be implemented, and how many more people must die before the 1.7 billion excess vaccines in the possession of the advanced countries of the world are shared with those who had no access to vaccines?
MONTEGO BAY, September 24, 2021 - As Barbados moves to become a republic by November 30, 2021, the government's Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee has invited the Barbadian public to participate in a series of public consultations entitled “The Charter of Barbados.”
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados August 2021 - Dame Sandra Mason has been nominated to be the first President as Barbados moves to become a republic by November 30.
Social media is commending Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley for her forthright response to a BBC reporter’s question, suggesting that her country as well as other Caribbean Nations could become “pawns” of China.
