Barbados’ top official for Pan-African Affairs and Heritage is sounding a critical alarm: decades of sidelining the island nation’s own history in national education has left generations disconnected from their core cultural identity, and systemic reform is the only solution to reverse the damage. Trevor Prescod, the minister holding this portfolio, reiterated his urgent call for a complete curriculum overhaul during remarks delivered Wednesday on the margins of a national cultural heritage workshop. He detailed that the gap in historical education stretches across every level of the country’s schooling system, from secondary classrooms through to post-secondary tertiary institutions.