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Incumbents

Monarch: Elizabeth II (to 30 November)
Governor-General: Sandra Mason (to 30 November)
President: Sandra Mason (from 30 November)
Prime Minister: Mia Mottley

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados
27 July – Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced on the Day of National Significance in Barbados that her cabinet had decided that Barbados would become a parliamentary republic by 30 November, and accepted the recommendations of the Forde Commission^[1]
20 September – Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2021 was introduced to Parliament^[2]
28 September – the House of Assembly passed the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2021^[3]
6 October – Senate passed the bill^[4]
12 October – incumbent Governor-Genera Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by Prime Minister Mottley and Joseph Atterley, leader of the opposition, as candidate for the first president of Barbados^[5]
30 November – Barbados becomes a republic,^[1] Dame Sandra Mason becomes president, replacing Elizabeth II as head of state.^[6]

Deaths

23 January – Sylvanus Blackman, weightlifter (born 1933).^[7]
6 February – Ezra Moseley, cricketer (born 1958) (Glamorgan, West Indies cricket team, Barbados national cricket team); traffic collision.^[8]
16 March – Sir Courtney Blackman, economist and diplomat (born 1933).^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b "Barbados to become a parliamentary republic by November 30". Loop News. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Constitution (Amendment) (No. ) Bill, 2021". Parliament of Barbados. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Barbados Parliament Gives Greenlight to Republican Status". CaribbeanNationalWeekly.com. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Constitution (Amendment) (No. 2 ) Bill, 2021". Barbados Parliament Bills Archive. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Letter to the Speaker RE Nomination of Her Excellency Dame Sandra Mason as 1st President of Barbados" (PDF). Parliament of Barbados. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Barbados becomes a republic and parts ways with the Queen". BBC News. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
^ "Sylvanus Blackman". olympedia.org. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
^ "Ezra Moseley, former West Indies fast bowler, dies in accident aged 63". ESPNcricinfo. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
^ "PM's statement on the passing of Sir Courtney Blackman". Barbados Today. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.

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2021 in the Caribbean

British West Indies
Danish West Indies
Dutch Caribbean
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French West Indies
West Indies Federation

West Indies

Antilles

Greater Antilles

Cayman Islands
Cuba
Jamaica
Navassa Island
Puerto Rico

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Lesser Antilles

Leeward Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern Caribbean

Leeward Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward Islands

Dominica
Grenada
- Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Martinique
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan Archipelago

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean continental zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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