Head of The Grenada Reparations Committee, Arley Gill, wants CARICOM countries to do more as it relates to the struggle for reparative justice.
Gill was speaking at a ceremony yesterday where the Trevelyan family, descendants of a British plantation owner offered an official apology and a payment of some 100,000 pounds sterling for the suffering our ancestors.
The British planter was in Grenada at the time of the colonial system of slavery, which brought pain and horror to African-descent-slaves on the plantation in several
The apology and payment is seen as the first bright spark for reparative justice, championed by the Grenada Reparations Committee, in collaboration with the CARICOM Reparations Commission.
At a ceremony yesterday where the apology was made and the reparations money delivered, Head of the Grenada Reparations Committee, Arley Gill, cried out for other European, Spanish and French descendants like the Trevelyans who benefitted from the slavish past to come forward and make reparation.
Gill says when thinking reparative justice, Grenada and the rest of the region are also thinking about a broader economic and social development plan.
Gill flashed back at the centuries-old trafficking in human cargo to be slaves on the plantations in the region, which fuelled European industrialization, which we have not yet been duely compensated.
