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Barbados leader rejects ‘asinine’ claim by former UK minister that ex-colonies should repay Britain
Mottley says Caribbean nations owe Britain nothing and calls the repayment idea “asinine” as leaders push for reparations, apologies and debt relief.
- Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley rejected a suggestion from British Home Secretary Suella Braverman that former colonies should repay Britain for historical investments, dismissing the claim as "asinine" in a post late Thursday.
- Braverman, now a member of Reform, wrote on July 3 that the British Empire "did so much good," arguing colonies should repay the investment in response to Jamaica planning a formal reparations petition later this year.
- Last month, Mottley led a subcommittee of Caribbean leaders to launch a new slavery reparations manifesto at a conference in Ghana, continuing to advocate for formal apologies and debt cancellations from Britain.
- "The Caribbean will not be used as a prop for anyone," Mottley wrote, emphasizing that descendants of the enslaved should not pay for the "machinery that oppressed them" as she met with Caricom leaders in Lucia this week.
- U.N. human rights chief Volker estimates that 25 million to 30 million Africans were uprooted for slavery, with many sent to plantations across the Americas, underscoring the historical scale of colonial extraction.
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Independent EspañolSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley described as “absurd” the suggestion of a UK legislator that the former British colonies should reimburse her for her historic investment in them.
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Barbados leader rejects ‘asinine’ claim by former UK minister that ex-colonies should repay Britain
Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley is describing as “asinine” a suggestion that former colonies pay Britain back for its investment in them.
·New York, United States
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