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on the eastern most island in the caribbean, this older woman, who you might recognize, will no longer be the head of state. as of the stroke of midnight tonight, queen elizabeth will no longer be, among her other titles, the queen of barbados, as of tonight at midnight, there will no longer be a head of barbados. there will be a president. she s on the right side of your screen. her name is dame sandra mason. she s currently the governor general. that means she s been the top representative of the queen there, but tonight that job goes away. barbados will cease of a king or queen for that matter. it will become tonight a republic, an independent republic with a president and a prime minster. it will no longer be a monarchy. and i should mention, this is a friendly transition. 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 wil ....
no longer be, among her other titles, the queen of barbados. as of tonight, midnight, there will no longer be a queen of barbados. we will have a new head of state in that country. she will be the first ever president of barbados. she is here on the right side of your queen. her name is sandra mason. sandra mason is currently the governor general of barbados, that technically means she s been the top representative of the queen. but tonight, that job goes away, barbados will cease to have a queen, or a king for that matter, it will become as of tonight, a republican independent with the president and a prime minister, it will no longer be a monarchy. and, i should message, this is a friendly transition. prince charles, who is next in line for the british throne, when his mother s rain is, over he will be in there in barbados. for the ceremony that will mark the transition. barbados will keep its name, its flag and its dollar and its national anthem. there will be some c ....
independent republic with a president and a prime minister. it will no longer be a monarchy. and i should mention this is a friendly transition. prince charles who is next in line for the british throne when his mother s reign is over, prince charles is there? barbados for the ceremony that will mark the tradition. 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 are police forces called the royal barbados police force. that will change. they will be the barbados police service. they became a colony of the british empire 394 years ago, in 1627. barbados is where they solidified the sugar plantation model where slaves worked to death at an inhumanly unfathomable pace. the life expectancy of people enslaved to work on those plantations was 18 years. 18 jeers not the length of time they spent working on the plantations. was the average length of their life, period, under that form of s ....
passing president biden s economic agenda before the end of this year. and avoiding a debt default in the process. senator mazie hirono will join us to discuss the path forward. meanwhile, as the president heads to the midwest to tout his infrastructure law, we ll talk to two mayors, one from the east coast, one from the west, about what this historic investment could mean for cities. and beyond our borders, 400 years after the first english ship arrived to its shores, barbados has now cut ties with the british monarchy and is now the world s newest republic. this morning, there s new cdc guidance on boosters. the cdc now saying that all adults should get covid booster shots when they re eligible. it s a much broader recommendation than the one the agency released just a couple of weeks ago. the news comes as pfizer is expected to seek authorization for a covid booster for 16 and 17-year-olds amid concerns surrounding the omnicron variant. joining me now are our own ....
american and we ll celebrate in our own way over there. i give thanks to them on the other side of the atlantic on this day. thanksgiving is back but it will cost you. meals expected to be the most expensive on record and surging gas prices are hurting americans where it hurts. one of the busiest travel days of the year. all of this spelling major trouble for president biden. he is struggling to address american s concerns and the polls have responded accordingly. the president and his family are spending the holiday in nantucket and that s where we find jackie heinrich. good to see you both. the president s 45th year on nantucket. a tradition that politico reports he only broke for the pandemic and the death of his son, beau. it started when joe and jill first got together trying to find a way to avoid competing family holiday invitations as many people are familiar with. if you walk around the island and look at local newspapers a lot of stories about the bide ....