Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin and the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee are mov­ing for­ward, even af­ter she is­sued a sting­ing me­dia re­lease on Sun­day de­mand­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty from the or­gan­i­sa­tion over gov­ern­ment fi­nanc­ing.

Hours af­ter the state­ment, which was con­demned by for­mer min­is­ter of cul­ture Ran­dall Mitchell and Op­po­si­tion MP Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, Ben­jamin said she met with the ES­CTT.

“We met again as re­cent­ly as last night (Sun­day) and to­day. I am con­fi­dent in our shared com­mit­ment to ho­n­our­ing the lega­cy of Eman­ci­pa­tion with the dig­ni­ty and re­spect it de­serves. We move for­ward to­geth­er,” she said yes­ter­day.