“Now is the time to leave our colonial past completely behind,” Sandra Mason, the Caribbean nation’s governor general, said in a speech on Tuesday.
He said the country would become a republic in early November next year, as it celebrates the 55th anniversary of its independence from the British Empire.
The Queen is the head of state of the United Kingdom and 15 other countries that were previously under British rule – including Australia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica and the Caribbean and many other island nations in the Indian Ocean.
But many Barbadians have long agitated for the removal of its status – and with it, the symbolic presence of imperialism in its reign – and many leaders in this century have proposed that the country become a republic.
“Barbadians want a Barbadian prime minister. This is the ultimate statement of confidence in who we are and what we are capable of achieving,” the nation’s prime minister, Mia Motley, said in a speech at the state’s inauguration. Parliament on Tuesday.
“Thus, Barbados will take a logical step towards full sovereignty and become a republic by the time we celebrate the 55th anniversary of independence.”
A royal source told CNN that the decision is a matter for the government and the people of Barbados, adding that it is not “out of the blue” and has often been “intertwined and talked about in public”.
In the many years since independence in 1992, some countries have deposed the Queen, Mauritius was the last to do so in 1992.
But as the Barbados process was previously suggested as an issue for referendum, it could signal a new wave of nations in the face of pressure for rapid self-government, full self-government, especially as the historic historical role of the British Empire comes under renewal. Verification.
Messin quoted Barbados’ first prime minister, Errol and Walton Barrow, as saying “a return to the colonial complex.”
“That warning is as relevant today as it was in 1966,” he said. “After gaining independence half a century ago, our country can have no doubt about its capacity for self-government.”
Barbados remains a member of the Commonwealth, a union of 54 countries that were mostly British territories.
CNN’s Max Foster contributes to this report.
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