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Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says her government will re-empower the National Reparations Committee.

Speaking at the Emancipation Village this afternoon, she said her government will continue to seek payment from the governments of former colonial powers responsible for native genocide and the trans-atlantic slave trade.

Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh tells us more.
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00:00She created the Trinidad and Tobago National Reparations Committee in 2013 during her first term as Prime Minister.
00:08And now in 2025, Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa says she is determined to see the children of the enslaved get what is owed to them.
00:18She was speaking at African Emancipation Day celebrations at the Emancipation Village in Port of Spain on Friday.
00:24We will re-empower the National Reparations Committee.
00:31We will support CARICOM's charge at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings this October,
00:38pursuing debt relief, developmental financing and binding institutional reforms.
00:46This is a lawful debt forged in centuries of unpaid labour and stolen futures.
00:54She says reparations must be demanded and her government will do whatever it can to see it through.
01:01I commit my office, I commit every ounce of political capital to move reparations from aspirations to achievement.
01:11So our next generation inherits not just the memory of freedom, but the means to flourish in its fullness.
01:21Passat-Bissessa praised the efforts of the Emancipation Support Committee for always keeping emancipation efforts alive year after year
01:29and says she has instructed relevant ministries to work with them on a national action plan.
01:37Expending grants for drumming schools, mass camps, heritage archives, digital storytelling labs,
01:44we will empower the committee and empower our citizens.
01:48We will also look at curriculum restoration to embed African civilisation, enslavement, resistance
01:58and Afro-Trinbegonian achievement in the syllabuses of our schools.
02:03Cindy Raguba Chika Singh, TV6 News.
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