The Sydney Morning Herald tells us that -
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne stood
sombrely as Queen Elizabeth's standard was lowered
and the new Barbados declared.

At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday a new republic
was born to the cheers of hundreds and with Barbados
ditching the Queen as its head of state - forging a new
path with its first President and severing its last
remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the
first English ships arrived at the Caribbean Island.

Prince Charles has stated that -
The creation of this republic offers a new beginning.
The Queen has sent her warmest wishes.

Will Australia be next

The use of the word ‘ditching’ tells us more about the poster than about Barbados.
Hundreds cheering; I thought that the population was in the thousands;287,000 plus.to be a bit more precise.

The Caribbean island's ditching of the constitutional
monarchy is significant ( "ditching" was a term widely
used by quite a few newspapers - including The Herald Sun).
It is significant not just for the monarch and her heir,
but for the new republic, and others that may follow.

Joe Little, the managing editor of - Majesty Magazine
said the declaration was a "natural progression..."

"I think eventually it's one that will continue, not
necessarily in this current reign, but in the next -
and probably accelerate."

Royal officials have said little about the end of nearly
4 painful centuries of British rule and influence on
Barbados. Prince Charles did acknowledge in his speech
the suffering caused by the British. Barbados was a key
centre in the slave trade.

Lets not forget that in 1947 India emerged as an independent
republic. Then we have Fiji (1987) Mauritius (1992) have
since become republics following in the footsteps of
Caribbean nations - Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad, and Tobago
in the 1970s.

In Britain a YouGov poll in May indicated support for
scrapping the monarchy was low among older age groups.
In contrast 41% of those aged 18 to 24 said they wanted an
elected head of state.

The changing attitudes to monarchy could be as a result of
greater awareness about the legacies of colonialism and
support for anti-racism movements and a fairer society.

"As the older generation starts to die, we're going to see a
big spike in support for republicanism," said Graham Smith
from the anti-monarchy pressure group Republic.

"I think the only people that think monarchy has a big role
to play are the British and the Royal family."

Will these feeling accelerate world-wide - including in
Australia?

Interesting times ahead.

Foxy,
Do you think Australians would be as patriotic as the people of Barbados ?

I guess it will be the poms pouring foreign "AID" into Barbados. There is no chance such an island will be able to fund itself, with Covid 19 destroying the tourist industry.

It will cost the poms a fortune, unless the islanders go for China's Belt & Road Initiative, which would let them off the hook, & bankrupt the little island.

Watch Barbados go further down the drain, the homicide rate is near twice that of the USA.
Perhaps becoming a republic will lower it now that the UK influence has diminished.

The fact that newspapers are in bad taste no way excuses it in others.