PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL STUART has warned that Barbados and other global countries are under threat from human trafficking.
Declaring this a new form of slavery, he said it is no less dangerous than what existed for our forefathers. 
“The battle fought and won by General Bussa still has to be fought because although slavery as we knew it then was abolished, today a much more subtle but no less dangerous kind of slavery is very much a part of our global landscape.
“It rejoices in the name of human trafficking, which is what slavery was. When we all thought we’d put that behind us it has now reappeared in a new form,” he said.
The Prime Minister’s comment on Saturday night preceded the three hour production From Bussa to Barrow and Beyond at Golden Grove Plantation, St Philip.
It was staged to celebrate the bicentennial of the 1816 Bussa Rebellion and the 50th Anniversary of Barbados’ Independence.
During the ceremony, chairman of the Barbados Reparations Committee Professor Pedro Welch symbolically passed on the reparations baton to Monique Jackman, Guyana’s deputy consul general in Barbados. (WILLCOMM)
