Barbados is scheduled to remove England's Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and declare itself a republic on Monday, taking its movement for independence another step forward as it leaves British control. Replacing the monarch is Sandra Mason, the country's former governor-general, who will be named the island's first president. According to CNN, the Barbadian parliament elected Mason last month. Barbados will become a republic this week, replacing Queen Elizabeth as head of state. British colonizers enslaved over 380,000 people to work on Barbados' sugar plantations. Sandra Mason, set to be the first president, said she wants to "fully leave our colonial past behind." pic.twitter.com/mlx4GDyE0B — AJ+ (@ajplus) November 29, 2021 “The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,” Mason said in her speech last week as the then-governor-general. “Barbadians want a Barbadian head of state.” The island, which has a population of just under 300,000, has prepared a...
