The island of Barbados has said goodbye to the British monarchy. The Associated Press reported that the Caribbean island has become a republic for the first time and removed Queen Elizabeth as its ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - 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.

The Royal Standard was lowered in Barbados for the final time on Tuesday - as the Queen was replaced as head of state and Prince Charles acknowledged the “appalling atrocity of slavery” the Caribbean ...

Barbados is famous for its beaches, for its obsessive love of cricket, and for being the birthplace of rum (and Rihanna!). Then on November 30, 2021 it became famous for something else: Removing the ...

Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the Caribbean island nation’s government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past. A ...