Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has described as “asinine” a suggestion by a U.K. lawmaker that Britain's former colonies should repay it for its historic investment in them.
“I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them,” Mottley wrote on X late Thursday. “The Caribbean does not owe Britain for slavery, for colonial extraction, or for laws that treated African people as chattel. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for justice, and history itself has already told the truth.”
