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Barbados made a historic decision after recently electing the country’s first president, Black Enterprise reported. Last week, Barbados elected Dame Sandra Mason as the island’s first president after Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth
On Nov. 30, (the same date as the country’s 55th anniversary of independence from Britain) Mason will be sworn in as the president of Barbados. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said in the article that the election of a president as “a seminal moment” in the country’s past. “We have just elected from among us a woman who is uniquely and passionately Barbadian, does not pretend to be anything else (and) reflects the values of who we are,” Mottley said after the election.
Last September, the Barbados announced that it will go forth to change into a republic, in turn, removing Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain as the head of state, according to the article. The Guardian reported in 2020 that with this shift, Barbados would join Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, and Guyana with its movement to become a republic, according to the article.
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