For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment over its po­si­tion on repa­ra­tions, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go is be­ing over­looked de­spite progress at the Unit­ed Na­tions.

This week, the Unit­ed Na­tions vot­ed to de­scribe the transat­lantic chat­tel slave trade as the “gravest crime against hu­man­i­ty” and called for repa­ra­tions as “a con­crete step to­wards rem­e­dy­ing his­tor­i­cal wrongs”.

In a Face­book post, Dr Row­ley said he played a role in ad­vanc­ing the repa­ra­tions agen­da along­side re­gion­al lead­ers with­in Cari­com. He ref­er­enced dis­cus­sions at a Com­mon­wealth of Na­tions meet­ing in Samoa, where Caribbean rep­re­sen­ta­tives chal­lenged ef­forts to ex­clude the is­sue from for­mal talks.