Arriving in Baliceaux, it is hard to imagine that this private island in St Vincent and the Grenadines was once the site of one of history’s worst genocides perpetrated by the British government.
Shrouded in mystery, folklore and historical intrigue, with fishermen reporting sightings of skeletons in the surrounding ocean as coastal erosion drags old burial grounds into the sea, the island, which is barely a mile long, remains undeveloped and uninhabited. It is now the focus of a campaign to honour the thousands who died and were buried there more than 200 years ago.
