Special Envoy on Reparations Trevor Prescod addresses $18 million reparations project
Channel: Barbados Today
Date: 2023-09-12

The island’s Special Envoy on Reparations and Economic Enfranchisement Trevor Prescod says his office has been left in the dark about the $18 million reparations project announced by the United Kingdom-based charity United Society Partners in the Gospel for the descendants of slaves on the Codrington Estates in St John.

Last Friday, the charity issued an apology for the role the Codrington Estates played in the enslavement of Africans and announced that the project will help to improve the circumstances of the descendants of slaves now living on the estates by helping them to acquire freehold lots, scholarships and entrepreneurial training.

But Prescod told the Annual General Meeting of his St Michael East constituency last evening, there was no discussion with his office prior to the announcement.

📸: Remy Rock