Mottley said other steps in the island’s transition included work on a new constitution, which would begin in January. Mason, who has been the governor general, a position appointed by the queen, since 2018, had been nominated to take on the position of president, subject to the parliamentary vote, the prime minister announced in August. Guyana led earlier republican movements in the Caribbean, cutting ties to the queen in 1970, followed by Trinidad and Tobago, and then Dominica. “Barbadians want a Barbadian head of state.”īarbados has since become the latest Caribbean island to shed the symbolic role of the queen and pursue the formation of a republic.
“The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,” Ms. The speech highlighted the urgency of self-governance, quoting a warning by Errol Walton Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados, against “loitering on colonial premises.” Mottley that was explicit in its rejection of imperialism. “It is a woman of the soil to whom this honor is being given,” she added.īarbados, a parliamentary democracy of about 300,000 people that is the easternmost island in the Caribbean, announced in September that it would remove Elizabeth as its head of state.
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“We believe that the time has come for us to claim our full destiny,” Prime Minister Mia Mottley said in a speech after the vote. 30, making Barbados a republic on the 55th anniversary of its independence from Britain. Sandra Mason, 72, the governor general of Barbados, became the country’s first president-elect on Wednesday when she received the necessary two-thirds majority vote in the Parliament’s House of Assembly and Senate. The island nation of Barbados has elected a female former jurist to become its next head of state, a symbolic position held since the 1950s by Queen Elizabeth II, as the country takes another step toward casting off its colonial past.
Sandra Mason, the governor general of Barbados, meeting with Prince Charles in Rooke/Pool
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