The former British colony became tonight the republic. And without any revolution

Barbados — one of 16 countries where Elizabeth II still remained head of state. This role mostly symbolical, even to most United Kingdom, but symbols sometimes mean a lot of things. In a case with Barbados it is royal portraits in all public institutions, distinctions and uniform stripes with royal symbols at army, police and even post workers, and also numerous mentions of a name of the monarch in names of establishments, such as Hospital Queen Elizabeth. Such order of things existed on Barbados more than 400 years since the first there dropped an anchor...