'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.
The Caribbean nation's Governor-General, Sandra Mason, said in a speech on Tuesday that"the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind."She said the country will become a republic as early as November of next year, when it celebrates its 55th anniversary of independence from the British empire.
"A royal source told CNN that the decision is a matter for the government and people of Barbados, adding that it was not"out of the blue" and had been"mooted and publicly talked" about many times.Several countries dropped the Queen as head of state in the years after they gained independence, with Mauritius the last to do so, in 1992.
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