BARBADOS

🔆Barbados:

✅Why in News: Nearly 400 years after the country became a British colony, Barbados has become the world‘s newest republic. 

✅ The Caribbean island nation removed Queen Elizabeth II as  

the head of the state in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles. Barbados, however, will continue to be one of the 54 Commonwealth nations. 

✅ Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands.  

✅It is in the western part of the North Atlantic, 100 km east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea. 

✅Barbados is located roughly 13°N of the equator.  

✅Barbados is outside the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.  

✅ Barbados, which is said to have been made a slave society‘ by the British, first became an English colony when a ship arrived at the Caribbean in 1625. 

✅ In 1966, Barbados gained its independence.