"The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind."
Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic by next year, making it the first country to drop the monarch in nearly three decades. https://t.co/xHpLWPuw0f
First Brexit, now Barbexit. The Caribbean island set to become a republic ahead of Australia @TurnbullMalcolm. I remember singing Jerusalem and pledging allegiance “to my country Barbados and to it’s flag” under a huge portrait of the Queen at school assembly. Bygone Barbados 🇧🇧
Barbados to relieve the UK Queen of her duties by 2021.
“Barbados will take the next logical step toward full sovereignty and become a republic by the time we celebrate our 55th anniversary of independence.”
This is the globalization of #BLM.