The reparations funds will reportedly come from Ms Trevelyan’s BBC pension and the money will be administered by the University of the West Indies (UWI).
A LEADING BBC journalist has announced she is leaving the corporation to join the Caribbean’s fight for slavery reparations.This comes a few weeks since Ms Trevelyan and other members of her family apologised for their ancestor’s role in slavery on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
The family owned six sugar plantations and owned more than 1,000 enslaved Africans at three plantations in the Caribbean country. Ms Trevelyan has also urged British authorities engage with the region on talks about reparations with “CARICOM and bodies such as the Grenadian National Reparations Commission.”
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