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Barbados To Declare Itself A Republic – Casting Off The Last Vestiges Of British Colonialism

Barbados To Declare Itself A Republic – Casting Off The Last Vestiges Of British Colonialism

When the clock strikes midnight tonight in Bridgetown, Barbados (4am Irish time), the small Caribbean nation will declare itself a Republic, severing a near 400 year-old relationship with the British crown. In doing so they will be removing Queen Elizabeth Windsor II as head of state, an act signalling the death knell of British