article_snippet: Barbados could be set to replace the Queen the Queen as head of state after the Caribbean island's prime minister set out the Caribbean island's prime minister plans for the Queen to become a republic.
article_snippet: Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, left, who has announced plans for the Caribbean island to replace the Queen as head of state .
article_snippet: A draft bill would have to be put to before the Caribbean island's parliament, but Mr Pilgrim said: 'Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, left, who has announced plans for the Caribbean island nation to replace the Queen as head of state don't expect any opposition coming from his party.' '
article_snippet: If the Queen is replaced as head of state, the Caribbean island will retain links with the British Crown through the British Crown membership of the Commonwealth.
article_snippet: the Queen is represented on the nation by the largely ceremonial role of the governor general.
article_snippet: In 2005, the then prime minister Owen Arthur outlined the then prime minister Owen Arthur proposals for dropping the Queen the Queen in favour of a locally elected president, but the process was not completed.
article_snippet: In 2012, Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller also pledged to replace the Queen as head of state.
article_snippet: The Queen is sovereign of 15 the Commonwealth realms, in addition to the UK, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Canada, Australia and New Zealand .
highlights_snippet: This would mean that the Queen would be replaced as head of state .
  