{"id":15611,"date":"2020-09-30T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2020-10-15T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:49:55","slug":"barbados-civil-partnership-instead-of-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/barbados-civil-partnership-instead-of-life-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados: Civil partnership instead of life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mia Amor (!) Mottley. That is the name of the Prime Minister of Barbados. Lesbians and gays on the former British island could well write her into the history books as the gods’ messengers of love. Until now, homosexuality has been punishable with life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

On 15 September, Dame Sandra Mason, Governor General of Barbados and representative of Head of State Queen Elizabeth II, announced her intention to decriminalise homosexuality and “recognise a form of civil union for couples of the same sex to ensure that no person in Barbados is discriminated against in the exercise of civil rights that should belong to them”. Mason stated in Parliament’s opening address that the legal systems of modern societies recognise many different forms of human relationships. Barbados should<\/p>\n

“do nothing less, because compassion, decency, empathy, kindness, fairness and justice are what distinguishes us as a people”.<\/p>\n

The speech opening the new parliamentary term is commonly seen as a benchmark for the government’s agenda for the coming years.<\/p>\n

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For the time being, however, there will be no formal equality for marriage. This is to be decided in a separate referendum, which LGBTIQ* associations naturally consider to be a suboptimal approach, as there should be no referendums on human rights.<\/p>\n

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Mia Amor Mottley: Public-spirited, empathic and with almost absolute power<\/h2>\n

Mia Mottley has been Prime Minister of the Caribbean island since 2018. After a rather dirty election campaign, in which the opposition tried to discredit Mottley with speculations about her gender, Mottley and her party achieved a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections on 24 May 2018 – 74.6 percent of the votes and all 30 parliamentary seats went to the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).<\/p>\n

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say hello to my new prime minister and most importantly the FIRST FEMALE prime minister of Barbados … the honorable Prime Minister @mamottley \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde7\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udc9d\ud83d\udc9d\ud83d\udc9d\ud83d\udc9d well deserved and about time! breaking barriers and making history in so many ways!!! Congratulations \ud83d\ude0d \ud83d\udc85\ud83c\udffe<\/a><\/p>\n

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