Things are still ticking over in Barbados. Although little information is coming out of the Government – certainly no timetable – an Advisory Committee, headed by a woman, has been appointed to report to the Prime Minister in September on public consultations and several procedural issues including how the republic would function; selection of the head of state and the like. Here’s an update from a Canadian journalist following events [“Barbados is ready to say goodbye to the Queen” by Stephanie Fillion, Foreign Policy online, 28 June 2021]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
