Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year on Nov. 30, the Caribbean country of Barbados made a huge power play by severing ties with Britain and monarch Queen ...

Barbados marked its 55th Independence Day on Tuesday, Nov. 30, by officially removing Queen Elizabeth as head of state and commemorating its new status as a republic. The move from a constitutional ...

The island of Barbados has said goodbye to the British monarchy. The Associated Press reported that the Caribbean island has become a republic for the first time and removed Queen Elizabeth as its ...

SAN JUAN – Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders, ...

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Bridgetown, Barbados — Fireworks filled the sky over Barbados on Tuesday as the Caribbean island nation declared itself the world's newest republic, lowering Queen Elizabeth's flag as it severed ...

There's no simple way for me to characterize the emotions evoked by Barbados' official declaration of parliamentary republic status this week. My great-great-grandfather, Walter O.A. M. Collymore Sr., ...