This week is a significant one for Barbados as it removes Britain’s monarch as its head of state, having made the decision to become a republic. The Caribbean island nation was initially a creation of the British Empire and was settled as early as the 1600s. The often-unspoken part of …
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During a ceremony in the singer’s birthplace of Bridgetown, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley referenced Rihanna’s 2012 song ‘Diamonds’ to applause. “May you continue to shine like a diamond and bring honor to your nation,” the prime minister declared. Robyn Rihanna Fenty – who goes by the stage name Rihanna …
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Thanks to Bajan Prime Minister Mia Mottley making good on decades of unfulfilled manifesto commitments, aborted referenda and broken promises, on November 30, 2021, ‘Little England’ will cease to be the Weybridge of the West Indies and will become the latest in a long line of former New World plantocracies …
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Britain is under siege from all angles. Inside its borders, there’s serious unrest over how the government is handling the Covid-19 fallout and over its plans to break international law. Outside, there’s a battle with the EU over Brexit and lots of disappointed allies. Barbados is the latest to land …
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