prince charles, who is next in line for the british throne when his mother's reign is over, prince charles is there tonight in barbados for the ceremony that will mark the transition. barbados will keep its name and its flag and its dollar and its national anthem. there will be some changes right away. right now there will police forces called the royal barbados police force. that will change because they'll no longer be royal. they'll be the barbados police service tonight at midnight. barbados became a colony of the british empire 394 years ago in 1627. barbados is where they solidified the sugar plantation model of slavery, where enuclaed people were worked to death at an inhumanly unfathomable pace. by some scholarly accounts on the early barbados sugar plantations, the life expect