Barbados ready to dismiss Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state - The Washington Post

“The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind, ” the island nation’s governor general said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/barbados-ready-to-retire-queen-elizabeth-ii-as-its-head-of-state/2020/09/16/41cfac82-f81c-11ea-85f7-5941188a98cd_story.html