Former cricketer Garfield Sobers arrives to attend the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony to mark the birth of a new republic in Barbados, Bridgetown, on November 29, 2021. [Reuters]
Barbados ditched Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.