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memorial, no gestures can fill the void in the hearts they have now, or that you, you have lost someone, feel as well. being here today and hearing the name of your husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, brings it all back, as if you got that phone call ten minutes ago. the american people, we owe you. you know, you sit down in the street, in normalfamilies, all neighbours, and every day you worry and you worry you could get that phone call, and now you are look...

Saint George, February 11 (Prensa Latina) Grenada authorities today maintain monitoring of the underwater volcano Kick’em Jenny, located eight kilometers from the northern coast, after reports of an increase in its seismic activity.

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St. George, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) Grenada will host the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)'s Conference from April 22 to 24, 2024, to discuss sustainable tourism development.

We begin ourjourney by looking at university college londons database of slave ownership in the british caribbean. so, shall we see what happens if i type in my name? lets have a go at it. all right. lets get in there. trevelya n. 0k. and then lets put grenada. lets see what its going to come up with. good heavens. we have reverend george trevelyan. harriet trevelyan. john trevelyan. so this is showing us that my ancestors owned what looks like hundreds of slaves on grenada... yes. ..on the temp...

Do you think its fair that my family got money when slavery was abolished, but the slaves here in grenada got nothing? no, not at all. it wasnt fair. i believe that the slaves were the hard workers. they are the ones that should really get some form of compensation. there was a lot to reflect on after id met mr hankey and the students and seen the plantations. as a schoolgirl, id been taught that britain led the world in abolishing the slave trade. my history lessons glossed over how britains em...

Of cambridge were when they were in jamaica this march. caribbean governments want more from britain than expressions of sorrow over the slave trade. ..should never have happened. the british government, first of all, must apologise wholeheartedly. and notjust the british government, we cannot leave out the monarchy. the royal family played a critical role in sanctioning and participating in the slave trade and slavery. britains government has never apologised for slavery. the foreign office tol...

At the end of an eventful week, we sat with our guides, nicole phillip—dowe and dc campbell, to reflect on what wed learned. this is grand anse beach, where it all began in 1609 when the british first tried to land and colonise grenada. the carib natives repelled the british, only to be invaded by the french. what, to you, is the legacy of slavery, as you sit on grenada today? well, the people will never forget. the evidence is all around us. we do have structures. we do have memories. we do h...

So education, for me, its always been a medium of advancement. so i think thats an extremely great idea. exceedingly great idea. but we cant undo the past. no, we cant. we cant. its learning to accept that it happened. but how do you deal with it now that youve come to terms with the fact that this is what has happened? and education, for me, is one of the ways that you can repair that damage. the devil slave masterjabjab is a reminder of grenadas not so distant past. he shouts hes a prominent c...

Or is it that they genuinely did not know the extent of this? it really opens those questions. theres an active debate on grenada about the brutal legacy of slavery and how to make amends for the past. grenadas national reparations commission is engaging the countrys youth in a discussion about what exactly reparations even mean. weve come here to this school to find out what the students have to say. so good afternoon again, girls. students: good afternoon. today we want to chat about the legac...