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Barbados Has Elected Its First President

Kumari Sonali

Barbados Has Elected Its First President:

Barbados has elected its first President, a key step in preparations to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as head of state of the Caribbean island.

  • Sandra Mason, the current governor-general, is set to be sworn in as President on November 30, the country’s 55th anniversary of independence from Britain.
  • In September 2020, Ms. Mason, 72, announced the break with Britain, saying “the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind.”
  • Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands.
  • Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
  • It is at roughly 13°N of the equator.
  • Barbados lies on the boundary of the South American and the Caribbean P

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