00:00Barbados Prime Minister Maia Motley has criticized a suggestion by a British lawmaker that Britain's former colonists should repay it
00:09for its historic investment in them.
00:12She was speaking after Suella Breverman, a former British Home Secretary who is now a member of the anti-immigration
00:18reform UK party, wrote in a post on Exxon July 3 that the British Empire did so much good for
00:25the world.
00:27And certainly the notion that we should pay the United Kingdom for oppressing us, for enslaving us and for treating
00:38us as chattel.
00:40And that is the difference. Slavery existed before, but this was the first time that human beings were defined as
00:50chattel.
00:51Breverman was writing in response to another parliamentarian who noted that Jamaica planned to lodge a formal petition for reparation
00:59later this year.
01:00I have no doubt that there are British parliamentarians who want to distract people from the domestic politics of the
01:05United Kingdom at this point in time.
01:07But the Caribbean should not be used as a prop in those circumstances. Thank you.
01:13In recent years, Britain has insisted it will not pay to make amends, while Caribbean leaders have called for a
01:20formal apology in various mentions, including debt cancellations.
01:24The British leaders have before, and the British müsstires and the British have called for a regularity.
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