#Mia Mottley``

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A Conservative politician is making millions off of slavery 190 years after slavery was abolished in Britain and its territories.

Tory Richard Drax comes from a filthy rich family notorious for having established the model for slave-based sugar plantations in the Caribbean in the 1620s. Even by the standards of a slave-based economy, the record of the Drax family was appalling.

The Barbados plantation was worked by up to 327 slaves at a time, with the death rate for both adults and children high. Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the 20-state Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) Reparations Commission and vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, estimates that as many 30,000 slaves died on the Drax plantations in Barbados and Jamaica over 200 years.

Thanks largely to their their ill-gained riches, the Drax family owns a 700 acre walled estate in Dorset which includes a deer park. And apparently they are getting even richer.

Despite threats to make Richard Drax pay reparations and seize his family’s plantation – described by one historian as a “killing field” of enslaved Africans – the government is now planning to pay market value for 21 hectares (about 15 football pitches) of his land for housing. The move has angered many Barbadians, especially those who say the Drax family played a pivotal role in the development of slavery-based sugar production and the Barbados slave code in the 17th century. This denied Black Africans basic human rights, including the right to life. Critics have called the planned deal an “atrocity” and said this is “one plantation that the government should not be paying a cent for”. Trevor Prescod, MP and chair of the Barbados National Taskforce on Reparations, said: “What a bad example this is. Reparations and Drax Hall are now top of the global agenda. How do we explain this to the world? “The government should not be entering into any [commercial] relationship with Richard Drax, especially as we are negotiating with him regarding reparations.”

It's baffling why the Barbadian government would enter into such a deal.

Drax, the MP for South Dorset, travelled to Barbados to meet prime minister Mia Mottley. It is understood he was asked to hand over all or a substantial part of Drax Hall plantation. If he refused, legal action would follow. Mottley’s spokesperson said the current Drax Hall purchase was not linked to reparations and the government “constantly acquires land through this process”. Mottley has pledged to build 10,000 new homes to meet demand on the island, where there are 20,000 applications for housing. A senior valuation surveyor said the market value for agricultural land with an alternative use for housing would be about Bds$150,000 (£60,000) an acre. At this price, the 21 hectares could net Drax Bds$8m (£3.2m). The land would be for 500 low- and middle-income family homes, which would be for sale.

I'd just grab the land and pay Drax a token £1 just so he legally can't claim he wasn't compensated at all for the transfer.

Barbados poet laureate Esther Phillips, who grew up next to Drax Hall, said the planned deal was an “atrocity” and a case of the victims’ descendants now compensating the descendant of the enslaver. “He should be giving us this land as reparations, not further enriching himself … at the expense of Barbadians. As Barbadians, we must speak out against this.”

And with the reported thousands of deaths during the 200+ years of slavery at the Drax plantation, how many people will be comfortable with the idea that their new home is built on what was essentially a forced labor camp which became a model for regional slavery? Isn't the Drax property on Barbados a large cemetery?

[miabrown007]

"An orchestrated love is almost more precious than a natural one; harder to give up something you spent that long making."

Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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Mia Mottley | TIME100

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meeting Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley on the sidelines of the Caricom (Caribbean Community) summit in Georgetown, Guyana, 28 February 2024

[nakeddeparture]

Bridgetown, Barbados. Population Growth. You know what the issues are. Mia has to find a non-human-resource way to repay the debt.

https://youtu.be/zo_pc1euPFA

There are too many bu*****s and too many wi*****s and too many w****es and plenty of sex organ di****ses in Barbados for the production of babies to be at an optimum. Males in their early 20’s buying ‘do***ie, please get h**rd’ pills. Close wunna ears if you don’t want to hear THE TRUTH. Naked!!

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my love for Prime Minister Mia Mottley is BOUNDLESS

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Is King Charles III Ready to Pay Reparations for Britain’s Dark Colonial Past

King Charles III and reparations have become central to a renewed global conversation surrounding Britain’s colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade. As the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) approaches in October 2024, a coalition of 15 Caribbean nations, led by CARICOM, is bringing the issue of reparations to the forefront. These demands, which could exceed $240…

[yemme]

When PM Mia Amor Mottley speaks, I listen. Intellect, paramount.

[dutty-lingo]

💥Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations💥

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“The environmental crisis of our time is also one of human rights and geopolitics – the antimicrobial resistance report published by UNEP today is yet another example of inequity, in that the anti-microbial resistance (AMR) crisis is disproportionately affecting countries in the Global South,” said Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, who chairs a UN-backed initiative of world leaders and experts examining the issue. AMR is among the top 10 global threats to health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2019, an estimated 1.27 million deaths globally were directly attributed to drug-resistant infections.  Overall, nearly five million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR.

‘Reduce pollution to combat ‘superbugs’ and other anti-microbial resistance’, UN News

[miabrown007]

"The best way to get a man to do what you want is by telling him he got a choice, got control, got the end of the thread."

Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

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All 14 independent CARICOM members have now formally recognized Palestine

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Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez, Bolivian President Luis Arce and Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the CELAC summit in Argentina today, 24 January 2023

[nakeddeparture]

Gang Members: Paul Hinds, Damian Bourne, Jason Best (Tyra’s ex) and Jabarri Wickham showed up in your news asking: Where’s the Money - Barbados.

https://youtu.be/BFMvxyNj2XY

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