Last year on Nov. 30, the Caribbean country of Barbados made a huge power play by severing ties with Britain and monarch Queen Elizabeth II and deeming itself an official republic. In doing so, the ...

The Dominican Republic will host Barbados in a Concacaf Nations League matchup on Monday on Paramount+. The two squads met last Friday, with the Dominican Republic capturing a decisive 5-0 victory in ...

Barbados is famous for its beaches, for its obsessive love of cricket, and for being the birthplace of rum (and Rihanna!). Then on November 30, 2021 it became famous for something else: Removing the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - 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.

Prince Charles denounced the "atrocity of slavery" and Britain’s legacy of the slave trade as Barbados removed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as head of state. On Monday, the 73-year-old, who is ...

Prince Charles has left Barbados after its first day as a republic that broke the country's centuries-old ties with the British monarchy and saw Rihanna collect her National Hero award. The Prince of ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — 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.

Barbados swore in its first ever president on Tuesday, becoming a republic 55 years after the island first gained independence. Queen Elizabeth was formerly the head of state of Barbados. However, ...

Barbados on Tuesday removed the Queen as its head of state and became a republic. Barbados was seized by the British in 1627 and became independent in 1961. In a letter to the new president, the Queen ...

Queen Elizabeth will have one less realm after this week, when Barbados severs its final imperial links to Britain by removing the 95-year-old as its head of state and declaring itself a republic. The ...

On its first anniversary of complete independence from British rule, a writer reflects on how Barbados continues to celebrate what it now means to be free. Last year on Nov. 30, the Caribbean country ...