2021 in Barbados

Events in the year 2021 in Barbados.

See also: 2021 in the Caribbean

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2021 Timeline of Barbadian history

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

Sandra Mason becomes the first president of Barbados.

• 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]