{"id":1292,"date":"2015-03-23T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:02:33","slug":"barbados-to-remove-queen-as-head-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Barbados to Remove Queen as Head of State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announces that Barbados will remove the Queen and create a ceremonial President for his small Caribbean country colonised by the British in 1627. Barbados became independent in 1966 and has also in the last few years been visited by a number of British royals. Jamaica announced similar plans in January 2012 (see News Item for 6 Jan) but has not achieved the change to date. [&#8220;Barbados Plans to remove Queen as head of State almost 400 years after British colonisation&#8221; by Lizzie Dearden, The Independent online 23 March 2015. Note Australian PM Julia Gillard in one of the accompanying photos.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/barbados-plans-to-remove-the-queen-as-head-of-state-almost-400-years-after-british-colonisation-10128601.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announces that Barbados will remove the Queen and create a ceremonial President for his small Caribbean country colonised by the British in 1627. Barbados became independent in 1966 and has also in the last few years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}