PM of Guyana welcomes move by Gladstone family, calls for apology from Dutch, British Governments

(Department of Public Information Press Release) While Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips welcomes the apology by the descendants of John Gladstone, a former British plantation owner, he is also calling for an apology and reparations from both the Dutch and British Governments, since various ethnic groups, specifically Africans have suffered by the hands of these colonisers.

The prime minister met with family members of Gladstone at his Camp Street Office on Saturday. 

“We demand an apology from the British Government just like how the Dutch Government would have apologised publicly. We suffered the same cruelty and crime against humanity in terms of slavery, which was started by the Dutch,” PM Phillips stressed.  

He said Guyana should be included in whatever apology and reparative mechanisms were being offered by the Dutch, since the country was not included in the initial sentiment.

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Source: CARICOM TODAY