Barbados

The 33-year-old multi-faceted singer was bestowed with the honor of becoming a National Hero of Barbados

Barbados has stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history

For some small island nations, limiting global warming is about survival, their delegations have told the COP26 climate summit.

Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe has filmed his speech to the COP26 climate summit knee-deep in the ocean to show the effect of rising sea levels.

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, said at COP26: “I have no choice but to keep on repeating it. What will it take for you to listen to us?”