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 slavery
Good to see you there my, friends thank you so much, much appreciated. thank you. and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour, really happy to have you here, hope you had a good holiday weekend. out as of tonight, midnight tonight on the eastern 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 there will no longer be a queen of barbados. there will be a president. dame sandra mason. she s currently the governor general of barbados. that technically means she s been the top representative of the queen there, but tonight that job goes away. barbados will cease to have a queen or king for that matter. it will become as of tonight an
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 slavery. 18-year-old life expectancy. that is the worst known life expectancy for anyone enslaved in the world at any time in the world. they had major uprisings in the early 1800s, but slavery was not abolished under the british empire until 1834. so that s more than 200 years of brutal, brutal slavery in barbados. and it was not until more than 100 years after that in 1960s that barbados stopped being a
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
Thanksgiving? barbados is leaving the british monarchy. that s what they re doing. what s on your to-do list? tonight we ve got a lot of news we re watching in addition to the moment ceremony coming up in the caribbean. our government in the united states, for example, is due to run out of money and shut down at the end of the week, on friday, unless congress acts to avert that. our supreme court is convening the day after tomorrow to hear a case that has been teed up to overturn rw roe versus wade. the court won t rule right away. that will take some matter of weeks or months. that said, we re not naive. we know what the purpose of this case is and we know why the republicans picked the particular justices they picked