By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Black Christians are often forced to go on the defensive when the subject of slavery, God, and the Bible comes up. Atheists and other critics of God and the Bible are adamant that the Bible and its deity are very pro-slavery except when Jews are the subject of the enslavement. Black Christians […]
By Lincoln DePradine Local attorney Arley Gill, who is a leading advocate in the Grenada and Caribbean movement that’s demanding reparations for the enslavement of Africans in the region, has said that Britain’s King Charles must do more than express sorrow over slavery. Reparations payment, “ultimately, is what we want,’’ Gill said in an interview […]
By Arley N. Salimbi Gill St. George’s, August 23, 2022: As we commemorate another International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition—we must never forget the cruelty and harm meted out to our ancestors during the brutal and inhumane slave trade. And, despite slavery being abolished in 1838 throughout the British Empire, […]
15-year-old girl sold for US$300 to human trafficking network in Trinidad and Tobago During our eight-month human trafficking investigation in the Caribbean (July 2019 to February 2020), we discovered that there was a higher demand for sex and prostitution services in Trinidad and Tobago when compared with other English-speaking countries in Caricom. Our research took […]
