COMMONWEALTH countries currently number 54 in total and nearly all are former territories of the British Empire. Today Barbados announced it wanted to leave its "colonial past behind" and quit - what are other countries saying? Within the Commonwealth are 15 Commonwealth Realms, meaning there are 15 other countries with Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch. Barbados is one such nation - but the country has had enough. Today the Caribbean islands revealed it wants to remove the Queen as their Head of State and become a republic next year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- United States airline JetBlue has entered an arrangement to sponsor the Barbados Tridents Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket franchise.

The sponsorship deal will see Tridents players sporting the JetBlue logo on their team jerseys for the remainder of the competition, a release from the CPL said Monday.

LOUIS D’ or, Tobago, CMC- Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago lost to Barbados by two wickets in their opening match of the West Indies Under 17 cricket tournament here yesterday. Set 215 to win in 50 overs, Barbados cruised to 215 for eight off 48 overs after bowling out the Trinidadians for  214 in 47.2 over at Louis D’Or.

There were no big individual totals but four batsmen – Captain Leniko Boucher, his opening partner Dikembe Wilson, Nicholas Kirton and Yvan Grant – all top scored with 28.