Human Trafficking in Barbados.
Human trafficking in Barbados is a horrific episode in the
lives of many Guyanese women in Barbados. All of these women
aren't coming to the island on their own, but are being
brought.
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Human trafficking is affecting Barbados an island in the Caribbean whose inhabitants for the
most part are of African descent, and who have been affected by
the horrors and shame of slavery, and human trafficking.
This being the case one would think that the inhabitants would
frown on any type of disenfranchisement such as slavery raising
its ugly head, but how quickly we forget.
Slavery has crept upon
the shores of Barbados in the form of human trafficking. There
exist in Barbados, and in other Caribbean territories where
young women from within and outside of the region are being
"shipped" from territory to territory as prostitutes. These sex
workers are being advertized in the print media and the internet
as "escorts".
These "escorts" are being brought to Barbados chiefly from
Guyana where they are being lied to that on they arrival in Barbados,
they would be offered a genuine job as maybe a waiter, but on
reaching the shores of Barbados they are placed on red light
districts such as Nelson Street. They passports are taken, and
they are forced to sell themselves to pay for the trip.
(This is human trafficking).
Many of these women arrive on the island having come from poor
and improvised societies in Guyana, continue in the
situation in order to send money home, and chiefly because they
are afraid. Some of these women continue to operate in strip
clubs, rum shops, and in spas offering "exotic massages" to
locals and tourists in hotels and on yachts. (This is human
trafficking)
Some have been in Barbados so long that they are now in the
island illegally. Nothing is being done for these young enslaved
women who are alone and afraid.
Its truly a sad day in Barbados as most have become the men
and women who once enslaved us all. No longer can we speak
against the enslavement of our forefathers as some of us
allow slavery to continue right under our noses. How can we
have anything to say against the Caucasian race who once
enslaved us?
Certain organisations within the island are
adamant about seeking damages for African peoples during
slavery, but would not lift one little finger against the
enslavement of Guyanese young women in Barbados. Could this
thing be morally right?
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