{"id":202,"date":"2020-09-20T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=202"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:20:08","slug":"barbados-aims-to-become-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Barbados Aims to become Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; has been bubbling away for 40 years &#8211; 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. [&#8220;Long live Barbados as a republic, soon to be free of tarnished &#8216;global Britain'&#8221; by Guy Hewitt, The Guardian online, 22 September 2020]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/22\/barbados-republic-free-tarnished-global-britain-queen-windrush-scandal\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}