Photo by John Stillwell – WPA Pool/Getty Images By Malaika Jabali ·Updated October 22, 2021
Barbados elected Sandra Mason to be its first President on Wednesday. The decision comes after a joint session of the country’s House of Assembly and Senate, which elected her by a convincing two-thirds vote.
This move will replace Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, “in a decisive step toward shedding the Caribbean island’s colonial past,” CNN reports.
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