Barbados declared New Republic after 400 years

• Barbados has ditched the Queen Elizabeth of Britain as the Head of the State. 

• The Caribbean country formed a Republic with its first-ever President Sandra Mason and severed its last-remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 later after the first British ships arrived at the Caribbean Island.

• New Republic Barbados was born at the stroke of midnight to the cheers of hundreds of people lining Chamberlain Bridge in the Capital of Barbados, Bridgetown. 

• On the occasion, a 21-gun salute was fired as the National Anthem of Barbados was played over a crowded Heroes Square.