A concerned citizen who goes by the name, Ras Dakari, says he’s not satisfied with a recent announcement of a UK family making a payment to Grenada’s Reparations’ Committee.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter, Laura Trevelyan, will be in Grenada with other members of her family to make the payment at a function organized for the Trade Centre Annex on the 27th of this month.
Trevelyan and the rest of the team are reported to be descendants of a British aristocrat who had a direct role in the enslavement of Africans here.
She had previously come to Grenada and one of the places she visited was a plantation once owned by her ancestors.
Of that experience, Trevelyan said she felt ashamed and offered compensation, while she acknowledges it’s a drop in the bucket to right the wrongs of history.
The family will give 100,000 pounds sterling to establish a community fund for economic development in Grenada and the eastern Caribbean.
But, concerned citizen, Ras Dakari is of the belief compensation for slavery should be in the form of a payment more tangible.
Dakari says on the day of the function at the Trade Centre Annex, he’ll be leading a protest, dissatisfied with the reparations gesture.
