Barbados celebrates as it officially becomes a republic, cuts ties with British monarchy

Editor's note: This is excellent news. More republics need to form breaking from the British monarchy. Well done, Barbados. Now just be on the alert for UK private mercenaries coming in to muck up your plans. 

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Source: Global News

Barbados ditched Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.

By Guy Faulconbridge and Brian Ellsworth | November 30, 2021

At the strike of midnight, the new republic was born to the cheers of hundreds of people lining Chamberlain Bridge in the capital, Bridgetown. A 21 gun salute fired as the national anthem of Barbados was played over a crowded Heroes Square. 

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, stood somberly as Queen Elizabeth's royal standard was lowered and the new Barbados declared, a step which republicans hope will spur discussion of similar proposals in other former British colonies that have the Queen as their sovereign. 

"We the people must give Republic Barbados its spirit and its substance," President Sandra Mason, the island's first president, said. "We must shape its future. We are each other's and our nation's keepers. We the people are Barbados." 

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