SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history.

The island of Barbados has said goodbye to the British monarchy. The Associated Press reported that the Caribbean island has become a republic for the first time and removed Queen Elizabeth as its ...

The Royal Standard was lowered in Barbados for the final time on Tuesday - as the Queen was replaced as head of state and Prince Charles acknowledged the “appalling atrocity of slavery” the Caribbean ...

Barbados has officially become a republic, lowering the royal flag ending nearly 400 years of British rule over the island nation. They swore in their first president, Sandra Mason, initially a ...