Commowealth realm with the Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State, Barbados in The Caribbean, announces that it intends to become a republic by 30 November 2021, 55th anniversary of its independence. This would be achieved by a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Parliament. No referendum is proposed. The attached article from The Guardian covers the history of republicanism in Barbados – has been bubbling away for 40 years – and the leadership instincts of current Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley. The last Caribbean country to hold a referendum to become a republic was Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2009 but that failed. The last Caribbean nation to become a republic was Domenica in 1978. [“Long live Barbados as a republic, soon to be free of tarnished ‘global Britain'” by Guy Hewitt, The Guardian online, 22 September 2020]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
