Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes
The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from theand 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 of his land for housing.
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? 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 an acre. At this price, the 21 hectares could net Drax Bds$8m .Barbados housing minister Dwight Sutherland, whose constituency in St George parish includes Drax Hall, said: “This is an acquisition process at market value.
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