Prime Minister, Dickon Mitchell, believes colonization has had a seriously debilitating effect on small territories particularly in the Caribbean and still reeling today from the impact.
He was last evening engaged in delivering the keynote speech at the Grenada Bar Association’s 19th Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture, which focused on the premise, “Reparations, Republicanism and the Rule of Law: What next after 50 years of Independence”.
With the need for reparations as a means of compensation for the slave era being the much talked- about issue in several circles these days, especially fuelled in the halls of history, politics and academia, the Grenadian leader believes it’s time for an apology from the colonizers.
The general view is that the colonizers pulled out of the colonization and afforded the colonies independence with the development of their countries in tatters.
Prime Minister Mitchell noted that the consequences of slavery is 400 years of exploitation that has left the colonies undeveloped, poor, marginalized and subject now to disasters and threats created by industrialization, with the reality of climate change threats.
The Grenadian Leader sees the situation in the post colony era as one where the Caribbean is paying a hefty price.
