PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised to lead the charge in seeking reparations for the atrocities the African diaspora had experienced in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

She made the promise while addressing attendees, including delegates from Nigeria and Ghana, at the African Emancipation Day celebrations at Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, on August 1.

“I commit my voice. I commit my office. I commit every ounce of political capital to move up reparations from aspirations to achievement so our next generation inherits not just the memory of freedom, but the means to flourish in its fullness.