Olivia Grange (right) said the petition’s request for Charles to seek legal advice from the privy council was critical to advancing Jamaica’s reparations claim. Composite: PA, Getty Images September 6, 2026 Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondeny Slavery’s legacy continues ‘to deprive our country and our people’, says minister, as group prepares to appeal to Jamaica’s head of state … Continue reading Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles
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An important preparatory event to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting later in the fall where this issue will be up for discussion one way or another. September 2, 2026 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Barbados will host the third Caribbean Community (Caricom) Regional Conference on Reparations later this month, the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat announced on … Continue reading Barbados to host third Caricom regional conference on reparation
August 31, 2026 GENEVA – The harms of the trafficking in enslaved Africans and racialised chattel slavery continue today through systemic racial discrimination and structural inequalities, giving rise to State obligations to provide reparatory justice, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said in a new General Recommendation. “Anti-Black racism, created to sustain chattel slavery, has … Continue reading Harms of trafficking in enslaved Africans persist today and give rise to reparation obligations, UN racial discrimination committee says
By Jacqueline Charles August 1, 2026 GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA Throughout the English-speaking Caribbean—and in Canada—Aug. 1 is observed as the day the British Empire’s official abolition of slavery took effect in 1834. But as former British colonies mark Emancipation Day on Saturday, Caribbean leaders and activists pushing for reparatory justice say it’s also time to … Continue reading Why Emancipation Day in the Caribbean is becoming a reckoning with slavery’s legacy
Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the commission, insisted at a briefing in London that reparations and decolonisation should go hand in hand. Photograph: Francis Kokoroko/Reuter At London briefing, Caricom Reparations Commission decries fact region remains ‘most colonised part of world’ Chris Osuh Tue 14 Jul 2026 The main reparations committee for Caribbean nations has called on … Continue reading Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation
Pope Leo XIV holds the pastoral staff as he celebrates the Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregoria Borgia) By NICOLE WINFIELD and PAOLO SANTALUCIA May 25, 2026 VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and … Continue reading Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
(Left to Right): UWI Pro Vice-Chancellor, of Global Affairs Ms. Sandrea Maynard; Chancellor Dr. Dodridge D. Miller; Assistant Secretary-General Dr. Sylverina Olaghere; Secretary-General of the CVCNU Professor Andrew Haruna; Vice-Chancellor of The UWI Professor Sir Hilary Beckles; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Academic–Industry Partnerships and Planning, and Principal of The UWI Five Islands Campus, Professor Justin Robinson. The … Continue reading The UWI’s Historic Hosting of Nigerian Vice-Chancellors
April 8, 2026 The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has applauded the recent adoption of a United Nations resolution that formally recognises the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. CRC Chair, Sir Hilary Beckles, described the resolution as a long-overdue step that lays the foundation for a global dialogue … Continue reading CARICOM Welcomes Historic UN Resolution Recognising African Enslavement as Humanity’s Gravest Crime
ByIka Washington on March 26, 2026 On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly made a landmark decision. The global body formally adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. The Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime … Continue reading The Gravest Crime: Canada’s Abstention and the Call for Reparatory Justice
BVI News on March 27, 2026 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has welcomed what it describes as a “historic” United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity, a move leaders say strengthens the region’s long-running push for reparatory justice. The resolution, adopted by the United Nations General … Continue reading CARICOM pleased as UN declares slavery the “gravest crime ever”