On this day, the Queen of England ceases to be the head of state of Barbados; the word “royal” will 1 be removed from the names of institutions and they will no longer bear the insignia of the British Queen; the new head of state is the newly-elected president, Dame Sandra Mason. [...] The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada congratulates the people of Barbados for this achievement in their long ongoing fight to affirm their right to be and settle scores with the 400 years of colonial history which started with the seizure of the island by English slave-owners in 1627, the introduction of the brutal system of slavery to run sugar plantations, formal independence 55 years ago and no. [...] Despite the achievement of universal suffrage in 1951 as a result of the people’s struggle for empowerment, the constitutional and legal structure remains the one established to facilitate the control of Barbados by the neo-liberal financial oligarchy and their institutions and under tutelage of foreign powers, especially the U. [...] Vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, the Barbadian historian and chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, said that the declaration of the Republic marks an historic moment for Barbados, the Caribbean and all post-colonial societies. [...] This dependence ran so deep that The Emancipation Statue standing in Bridgetown, when Britain responded to the diminishing Barbados, symbolizing the breaking of the chains returns from its colonial project with the ‘gift’ of of slavery at the moment of emancipation independence, Barbados was compelled to accept the British monarch as their own.
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