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September 17, 2020

Barbados Will Remove Queen Elizabeth as Head of State to "Leave Our Colonial Past Behind"
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The Caribbean nation of Barbados has announced plans to remove Britain's
Queen Elizabeth as its head of state. In a statement, the government
said, "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind."


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