The Trevelyan family, descendants of a British plantation owner in Grenada at the time of the colonial system of slavery here, today offered Grenadians an official apology for the horrors our foreparents endured on their plantations.
The apology, together with the sum of 100,000 pounds sterling, was handed over giving tangible meaning to the country’s reparation process.
This has come following a visit here last year by Laura Trevelyan, Head of the New York BBC Office.
Laura and members of her family were at today’s Reparation ceremony making what’s considered as a worthwhile reparations gesture.
The letter of apology was signed by several other members of the Trevelyan family, witnessed bby officials of the Grenada National Reparations Committee and by other citizens in the audience at the Grenada Trade Centre
Laura Trevelyan explained the beginning of the reparation process for them.
Head of the Regional CARICOM Reparations Committee, Sir Hilary Beckles, sees the whole business of fighting the reparations issue as being an age-old proposal.
It’s been deemed a travesty of justice when the British Government compensated the plantation and slave owners, especially when slavery was abolished.
Beckles hailed the Rastafarian movement for keeping up the struggle.
