barbados independence

CARICOM joins the government and people of Barbados in celebrating the country's fifty-sixth anniversary of independence on 30 November. "The strides Barbados has made since Independence have sustained its pursuit of progress and…
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(Barbados Today) After 396 years, the sun has finally set on the last vestiges of British colonialism as Barbadians awoke to a new dawn as the world’s newest republic. At midnight Tuesday – the very moment 55 years ago – when Barbados…
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(Barbados Government Information Service Press Release) All systems are go for the grand cultural celebration and Declaration of the Republic and Installation of the President, slated to start at 7:30 tonight. The cultural celebration…
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(British Vogue) To hear her Caribbean lilt or witness her open, effortless, gap-toothed smile, you wouldn’t know it, but Mia Amor Mottley, the first female Prime Minister of Barbados, is a woman in a hurry. “There’ve been seven prime…
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Barbados on its Fifty-Third Anniversary of Independence, noting that “as an independent nation, Barbados has achieved numerous accomplishments in, among other areas, music, sports, culture…
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