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The Government of Barbados (GoB) is a unitary parliamentary republic, where the President of Barbados is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Barbados is the head of government.
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The House of Assembly of Barbados is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. It has 30 Members of Parliament (MPs), who are directly elected in single member constituencies using the simple-majority system for a term of five years. The House of Assembly sits roughly 40–45 days a year and is presided over by a Speaker.
On 30 November 2021, Barbados transitioned from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the hereditary monarch of Barbados to a parliamentary republic with a ceremonial indirectly elected president as head of state. The prime minister remained head of government while the last governor-general, Dame Sandra Mason, was elected as the country's first president on 20 October 2021, and took office on 30 November 2021.
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Cynthia Yvonne Forde ("Cinthy") is a Barbados born veteran politician, former first Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party, member of the Barbados Union of Teachers, current Member of Parliament for the constituency of St.Thomas and current Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.
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- ↑ "MP Forde's mother missing". Barbados Today. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ↑ "'Efforts of youth in clean-up programme paying off'". Barbados Today. 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
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