Barbados under threat from human trafficking – PM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart has urged authorities to be on guard when it comes onto human trafficking.
Stuart, at a function to celebrate the bicentennial of the 1815 Bussa Rebellion and the island’s 50th anniversary of independence, said Barbados and other countries are threatened by human trafficking, which is a new form of slavery.
“The battle fought and won by General Bussa still has to be fought because, although slavery, as we knew it then, was abolished, today a much more subtle but no less dangerous kind of slavery is very much a part of our global landscape.
Stuart’s comments were followed by a three-hour production From Bussa to Barrow and Beyond.
Bussa, who was a slave, led the “Bussa Rebellion” —the first of three large slave rebellions in the British West Indies in the years leading up to Emancipation.
