{"id":1384,"date":"2015-12-14T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:27:32","slug":"barbardos-sets-the-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Barbardos Sets the Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prime Minister of Barbados has named 30 November 2016 as the date for the country to become a republic with a ceremonial president on the 50th anniversary of becoming a sovereign state. Like New Zealand, Barbados is following through quickly but the change is not yet assured.\u00a0The ruling\u00a0Democratic Labour Party has a majority in the upper house but not the lower house. A two-thirds majority\u00a0parliamentary vote is\u00a0 required and\u00a0the Opposition is as yet undecided on its stance. Neighbouring Domenica (1978) and Trinidad and Tobago (1976) are both already republics. In 2012, Jamaica also\u00a0announced it intends have its own head of state.\u00a0Both Barbados and Jamaica, like Australia, are\u00a0realms of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The last realm to remove QEII was Mauritius in 1992, before that Fiji\u00a0in 1987.\u00a0The number of her realms has halved during the Queen&#8217;s reign.See also\u00a0News Updates of 6 Jan 2012 (Jamaica) and 23 March 2015 (Barbados).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of Barbados has named 30 November 2016 as the date for the country to become a republic with a ceremonial president on the 50th anniversary of becoming a sovereign state. Like New Zealand, Barbados is following through&#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-1384","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\/1384","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=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}