PINK NEWS: Barbados scraps ‘buggery’ and ‘serious indecency’ laws in ‘resounding victory’ for LGBTQ+ people
It’s now hoped more countries, where being gay is still illegal, will follow in Barbados’ footsteps.
On Monday, 12 December, the High Court of Barbados further undid its colonial-era homosexuality laws by scrapping Sections 9 and 12 of the Barbados Sexual Offences Act.
Also known as “buggery” and “serious indecency” laws, which criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy, punishment ranged from life imprisonment under Section 9, and up to 10 years in jail under Section 12.
Chief executive of the Human Dignity Trust, Téa Braun, said: “This is a resounding victory for LGBT people in Barbados, which is the third country in the region to decriminalise through the courts this year. » | Chantelle Billson | Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Thursday, December 02, 2021
Barbados erklärt Unabhängigkeit: Zerfällt das Reich der Queen? | DW Nachrichten
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Barbados Cuts Ties with Queen, Becomes World's Newest Republic | DW News
Nov 30, 2021 • Barbados removed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as head of state at midnight local time on Monday. The Royal Standard flag that represents the queen was lowered in the capital Bridgetown in a ceremony that coincides with the country's 55th year of independence. Dame Sandra Mason was inaugurated as the first president of the Caribbean country, having been elected by a two-thirds majority vote in the Barbadian parliament.
In attendance at the celebrations was Prince Charles, heir apparent to the British throne, who arrived in the country on Sunday. "We the people must give Republic Barbados its spirit and its substance," Mason said in an address. "We must shape its future. We are each other's and our nation:s keepers. We the people are Barbados." After a display of dance and music from the island, Barbadian singer Rihanna was declared a national hero by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who led Barbados' republican movement.
Barbados is the first Caribbean country to abolish its monarchy since the 1970s, when Guyana, Dominica, and Trinidad and Tobago became republics. The last time Queen Elizabeth was removed as head of state was in 1992 when Mauritius proclaimed itself a republic. Although the country ceases to be a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign, it will remain within the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of 54 countries of which both republics and monarchies are members.
In attendance at the celebrations was Prince Charles, heir apparent to the British throne, who arrived in the country on Sunday. "We the people must give Republic Barbados its spirit and its substance," Mason said in an address. "We must shape its future. We are each other's and our nation:s keepers. We the people are Barbados." After a display of dance and music from the island, Barbadian singer Rihanna was declared a national hero by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who led Barbados' republican movement.
Barbados is the first Caribbean country to abolish its monarchy since the 1970s, when Guyana, Dominica, and Trinidad and Tobago became republics. The last time Queen Elizabeth was removed as head of state was in 1992 when Mauritius proclaimed itself a republic. Although the country ceases to be a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign, it will remain within the Commonwealth of Nations, an association of 54 countries of which both republics and monarchies are members.
Queen Congratulates Barbados as It Becomes a Republic
THE GUARDIAN: Monarch sends message marking ‘momentous’ day and wishing Barbadians peace and prosperity
The Queen on a walkabout in Barbados in November 1977. Photograph: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images
As Barbados removes the Queen as its head of state and becomes a republic, the monarch has sent her congratulations on the nation’s “momentous” day.
Prince Charles arrived on the Caribbean island on Sunday to join the inauguration ceremony of the president-elect, Sandra Mason, who replaces the Queen as head of state overnight as Barbados sheds the vestiges of a colonial system stretching back 400 years.
In a message to Mason, the Queen wished all Barbadians happiness, peace and prosperity in the future.
She said: “On this significant occasion and your assumption of office as the first president of Barbados, I extend my congratulations to you and all Barbadians. » | Caroline Davies | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
La Barbade scelle son divorce avec la reine Elizabeth : ANALYSE - Cette île de 430 km², indépendante depuis 1965, va devenir mardi une république en élisant à sa tête la présidente Sandra Mason. »
Der Queen bricht ein Land aus der Krone: Nach 396 Jahren verlässt Barbados die britische Herrschaft: Die Bürger von Barbados wollen die Queen nicht mehr als Oberhaupt ihres Staates. Fast drei Jahrzehnte nachdem sich Mauritius aus dem kolonialen Erbe gelöst hat, folgt am Dienstag die Karibikinsel und setzt Königin Elizabeth ab. Der Buckingham-Palast akzeptiert die Entscheidung und feiert sogar mit. »
As Barbados removes the Queen as its head of state and becomes a republic, the monarch has sent her congratulations on the nation’s “momentous” day.
Prince Charles arrived on the Caribbean island on Sunday to join the inauguration ceremony of the president-elect, Sandra Mason, who replaces the Queen as head of state overnight as Barbados sheds the vestiges of a colonial system stretching back 400 years.
In a message to Mason, the Queen wished all Barbadians happiness, peace and prosperity in the future.
She said: “On this significant occasion and your assumption of office as the first president of Barbados, I extend my congratulations to you and all Barbadians. » | Caroline Davies | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
La Barbade scelle son divorce avec la reine Elizabeth : ANALYSE - Cette île de 430 km², indépendante depuis 1965, va devenir mardi une république en élisant à sa tête la présidente Sandra Mason. »
Der Queen bricht ein Land aus der Krone: Nach 396 Jahren verlässt Barbados die britische Herrschaft: Die Bürger von Barbados wollen die Queen nicht mehr als Oberhaupt ihres Staates. Fast drei Jahrzehnte nachdem sich Mauritius aus dem kolonialen Erbe gelöst hat, folgt am Dienstag die Karibikinsel und setzt Königin Elizabeth ab. Der Buckingham-Palast akzeptiert die Entscheidung und feiert sogar mit. »
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Barbados Elects First President as It Prepares to Drop Queen as Head of State
THE GUARDIAN: Caribbean nation elects governor general to new role prior to former British colony becoming a republic
Dame Sandra Mason, the governor-general of Barbados, will replace the Queen as the island’s head of state.Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
Barbados has elected its first president with just weeks to go until the Caribbean island becomes a republic and ceases to recognise Queen Elizabeth as its head of state.
The island’s governor general, Dame Sandra Mason, was elected almost unanimously by the former British colony’s parliament on Wednesday, with only one member declining to vote.
Mason, a 72-year-old judge and former ambassador, will be sworn in on 30 November, the 55th anniversary of her country’s independence from Britain in 1966.
The prime minister, Mia Mottley, hailed what she called a historic landmark for the island of about 290,000 inhabitants. “How can anyone deny the rightness of the moment?” Mottley said, according to the Barbadian newspaper the Nation. » | Tom Phillips | Thursday, October 21, 2021
Barbados Elects Its First Head of State, Replacing Queen Elizabeth: The country’s Parliament chose Sandra Mason, the governor general, to assume the symbolic title, a decisive move to distance itself from Barbados’s colonial past. »
Barbados has elected its first president with just weeks to go until the Caribbean island becomes a republic and ceases to recognise Queen Elizabeth as its head of state.
The island’s governor general, Dame Sandra Mason, was elected almost unanimously by the former British colony’s parliament on Wednesday, with only one member declining to vote.
Mason, a 72-year-old judge and former ambassador, will be sworn in on 30 November, the 55th anniversary of her country’s independence from Britain in 1966.
The prime minister, Mia Mottley, hailed what she called a historic landmark for the island of about 290,000 inhabitants. “How can anyone deny the rightness of the moment?” Mottley said, according to the Barbadian newspaper the Nation. » | Tom Phillips | Thursday, October 21, 2021
Barbados Elects Its First Head of State, Replacing Queen Elizabeth: The country’s Parliament chose Sandra Mason, the governor general, to assume the symbolic title, a decisive move to distance itself from Barbados’s colonial past. »
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