Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019.  Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December 1966 address to the UN that the newly independent country would be "friends of all, satellites of none." Photo Copyright (c) 2019. 

"Beware....  He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear, and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is 'Republic!  Republic!  Republic!'"  Gladiator