"In Guadeloupe and Martinique, where more than 90 percent of the population has chlordecone in their blood, residents continue to demand financial compensation from the French government."
"As a kid in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Georgina Lambert spent her days playing beneath banana trees and swimming in rivers that shimmered with sunlight. She had no idea that the soil beneath her feet, the water she swam in and the air she breathed were laced with chlordecone, an extremely toxic pesticide.
Lambert was born in 1980 near the banana plantations in southern Basse-Terre, on Guadeloupe’s fertile volcanic soil. Her father, from Haiti, had moved to the island to answer the call for plantation labor.
“I still remember the banana plantations where we went to play. I spent most of my time outside, eating fruit, playing under the trees,” she said. She also remembers hugging her father when he came home from working in the plantations all day, and the strong chemical odors that lingered on his work clothes."
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