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Drax Hall: Political Cowardice and the ‘rule of law’

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By Tee White

In late April, news broke in Barbados that the Barbados Labour Party government, led by Prime Minster Mia Mottley, was planning to make a payment of some BD$ 8 million (US$ 4 million, GBP 3.2 million) to Richard Drax, the current owner of Drax Hall plantation, as part of the compulsory purchase of 50 acres of that property. The government claimed that its intention in acquiring the land is to build 10,000 houses for low-income families.

When the announcement of the sale was publicised, the outrage among the people of Barbados was instant. Trevor Prescod, MP for St Michael East and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for reparations and economic enfranchisement summed up the country’s feelings when he declared that Drax must not receive a single cent from the people of Barbados.

Faced with a wall of anger in Barbados, across the Caribbean and globally, Prime Minister Mottley addressed the country on 24 April.  In her address, she announced that the government would pause the compulsory purchase of the land from Richard Drax and consult with the people of Barbados on how to proceed.

Drax Hall [Photo Credit: https://barbados.org/drax.htm]

An important question that this issue has raised is that of the rule of law. David Commissiong, Barbados’ ambassador to CARICOM, writing in his capacity as a private citizen, published a commentary in which he outlined the criminal involvement of the Drax family in the holocaust against enslaved Africans in Barbados and the enormous wealth they derived from their criminal activity. Nevertheless, he argued that “the Law of Barbados stipulates that whenever Government compulsorily acquires property it is under a duty to compensate the landowner by paying him the fair market value of the land that is being appropriated”. Therefore, he argued, the government’s hands are tied. He described the prospect of the payout to the Drax family as a “fundamental injustice”.

Read full article – https://caribbeanempowerment.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/barbados-drax-hall-political-cowardice-and-the-rule-of-law/

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212 responses to “Drax Hall: Political Cowardice and the ‘rule of law’”

  1. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    “Why put the burden on Barbados to become a Mecca of good governance ?”

    All they will end up doing is RE-EMPHASIZE their slavehood….that’s all they know and have to offer.

    ..no one is talking about educating the people about who they really are, so they can win and gain many other benefits.

    ….what good governance what…where will they ever get that from……steupppss.

    The world is tired of clowns.

    When they hear what is REALLY possible…they will be the first to develop bad minds…..that’s why much have to be kept away from and hope they find it on their own…or not..no one cares if they ever do.

  2. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Pacha…..it worked TO PERFECTION……but they had NO CLUE what the Spirituality System was about or would have LEFT IT ALONE…too late now:

    In an Excerpt of a Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883:

    “Your knowledge of the gospel which we wrote will allow you to order the Negroes anyway you want, and it will encourage them to love poverty. Convince the Negro that the poor are happier and will inherit the earth, and it’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of god. You have to detach yourselves from them and make them disrespect everything which they revere as sacred and gives them courage to confront us. I make reference to their Mystic (Spirituality) system which is a threat to our conquest. You must do everything in our power to make it disappear. By all means the Negro must be made Christian (READ: SLAVES), by only this way will they let go of their rich Culture and everything they respect about themselves.”

  3. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    You and I both know, that power was WAY OUTSIDE what they are capable of, still is…the beauty of ancestral POWERS not to be touched by anyone except those ordained…

  4. Truth and Correct Avatar
    Truth and Correct

    Waru on first impression the letter seemed like it could have been fake news
    but a quick check on google verify and proves that it may well be genuine

    10/10 for the Afrikan scholar

    the moral code in the bible has been twisted by the immoral

    God hides the kingdom from the wise and intelligent, but He reveals it to babes. Therefore, do not exercise your wisdom, mentality, or cleverness. As long as you place confidence in your knowledge, you are through with the kingdom.

    “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.”

  5. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    I have seen that letter, before the criminal missionaries carried out their jobs to perfection.

    Wee only have to read the junk slave minds post and ya got all the evidence ya will ever need…the destruction was all-consuming and total..

    There is still 1 million Slave minds in the Congo……just as there are many, many millions in the west….

    Yes…the Afrikan Scholars are ALL on their A-Game.

  6. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    I have seen that letter before…

    But there is so much more truth re the same topic that most don’t know…Slavers knew even less. ….still do…

  7. Black Uhuru Avatar
    Black Uhuru

    The whole world is Africa
    But the violence in Continent States
    So the Cities have no pity
    I see the hills and valleys and plains
    Said I want you to know they are all from ancient space
    You see people getting up every day
    go to work, eat the food
    and they don’t remember
    they can pray

    for Mother Nature Father’s grace
    You wouldn’t oppress the upright
    In Mount Zion I
    As long as instrument and players are here
    I and I will root out corruption of this world
    Words sound bound to free
    your path
    you’re begging on your bending knee
    My Father rued this world, and you want to know
    You mentioned his judgement will cover the Earth

  8. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    The people are LIVID and sending signals that the public servant/politicians need to START PACKING.

    Now they will see WHO has the POWER and finally know they have to TAKE control.

  9. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    Pacha…jewish converts caused nothing but confusion for themselves when they created a white king david that NEVER EXISTED….

    Now the bloodlines of our REAL Afrikan King David and the Solomonic Dynasty have CLAIMED their true existence…everything is turned upside down in a land that was never any holy land.

    The topic is the lead subject on everyone’s lips, near and far.

  10. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ Yolande Grant,
    The story surrounding the Drax’s family appears to have died a rapid death. Has the Barbados media circus followed up this story? No!!!

    Below is an article on Brazil. Brazil is relatively close to Barbados, yet our lazy journalists never publish stories such as the featured link below.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/aug/18/coffee-plantation-brazil-jongo

  11. Yolande Grant Avatar
    Yolande Grant

    That’s how it’s done from generation to generation, then they claim it wasn’t them it was the previous 4 generations who committed those crimes against Afrikan people in the west and they should not be held accountable for what dead people did…😀 then the next generation picks up the mantle…wash, rinse repeat…same excuse and justification 100 years later.

    I was in Jamaica recently, saw the Drax name large in charge in either the St. James or St. Ann’s parish. Ha!!

  12. John Avatar
    John

    I can tell you why it has died!!!

    Did you know that 160 acres of Drax Hall land has already been sold to various families under the Freehold Tenantries act at 10 cents a square foot?

    But there is more to it.

    Reparations has also ceased to appear in the press!!

    Why is that?

    It looks ridiculous to be moaning about it while at the same time desecrating the graves of the very people whose suffering is being used to promote it.

    That is hypocrisy.

    The GOB cannot count the number of Burying Grounds that have been obliterated and the number of remains it has authorised to be removed and moved with the earth to please!!

    It has no moral authority to make such an argument.

    Please let Hal know!!!

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