Barbados: In the first minute of this November 30, Barbados will become a Republic, when that country celebrates 55 years of independence until today attached to Buckingham Palace, Prensa Latina reports.
That midnight will be the final end of Barbados’ colonial ties with the United Kingdom; Queen Elizabeth II will lose a new Caribbean diamond, inserted in her crown since the seventeenth century.
It will be the fourth country of the former London possessions in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as head of state. Before that, Guyana (1970), Trinidad and Tobago (1976) and Dominica (1978) did.
At the Republic proclamation ceremony, 72-year-old former jurist Sandra Mason, who has served as Governor General since 2018, will be sworn in as the first president.