By Orita BaileyNoted speaker, lawyer and activist Michael Lorne,
in his lecture to the people of St. Kitts declared, that we the
descendants of the millions of enslaved Africans deserved, had a
right to REPARATION and were failing in our duty if we failed to
pursue REPARATION from the former enslavers and colonisers.
After expressing his gratitude and pleasure at being invited to
be the Keynote speaker for this lecture, and thanked to The
Governor General his Excellency Sir Cuthbert Sebastian for his
hospitality, Mr Lorne commended the National UNESCO Slave Route
Project Committees, for their hard work and diligence. He also
commended the previous speaker Mr Leonard Stapleton, historian
and researcher who gave a short presentation on his work for the
Project – an inventory of sites where enslaved Africans were
held, lived and died. He lauded the Federation, “While St. Kitts
and Nevis might appear as only a dot on the world map, in the
struggle for dignity and pride and glory, St. Kitts-Nevis is
very big indee