Report by Omar Malik
72-year-old Sandra Prunella Mason has been elected as the first-ever President of Barbados – an east Caribbean island nation. She won the elections after bagging two-thirds of the votes in the two houses of Parliament – House of Assembly and Senate. Sandra Mason has been serving as the eighth Governor-General of Barbados since 2018.
She has also served the Barbadian Government earlier as the Registrar of The Supreme Court and was the first-ever woman to serve on the Barbadian Court of Appeals. She was awarded the Dame Grand Cross for her extraordinary services to the country.
Dame Mason’s formal oath ceremony is scheduled to happen on November 30th, 2021 which is also the 55th Barbadian Independence Day.
Since the country’s independence from the British Rule in 1966, Queen Elizabeth II has been its Head of State. After being sworn in as the first President of Barbados, President Mason will replace Queen Elizabeth II and thus end the current monarchy to establish the Barbadian Republic.