Barbados is the Worlds newest republic, 400 years after it became a British colony.
Highlights
Barbados, the Caribbean Island nation, dismissed Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the state.
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason became President of Barbados and was selected to become the first president of Barbados in October 2021.
She was announced by Speaker of the House of Assembly, Arthur Holder.
The British made Barbados a slave Society when it first became an English colony in 1625. It gained its independence in 1966.