BBCNEWS Global Questions August 10, 2021 01:43:00
Century. because barbados was the first british slave society. absolutely, and a lot of the laws and a lot of the iniquitous practices came out of here. and that's why you've heard me say that our parliament has had broken service — that we have both been seen as an instrument of oppression but it's now a tool of empowerment in the last 80 or so years. we start from that perspective. reparations for us is a development issue, and it's one we believe whose time has come. 20 years ago, when we first started having this discussion, people would laugh us out of the room. when emancipation came, ...