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 became an independent sovereign nation, it transitioned from a Commonwealth realm to a parliamentary republic […]

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