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Barbados now a republic, Rihanna named national hero
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic today with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.
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