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: Canadaโs Abstention and the Call for Reparatory Justice
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BVI News on March 27, 2026 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has welcomed what it describes as a โhistoricโ United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity, a move leaders say strengthens the regionโs long-running push for reparatory justice. The resolution, adopted by the United Nations General … Continue reading CARICOM pleased as UN declares slavery the โgravest crime everโ
Lahoma Thomas is the only Canadian to win Oxford's inaugural Early Career Researcher First Book Prize By: Savara Khokhar March 13, 2026 Long before Lahoma Thomas became a scholar, she was a child sitting beside her grandmother in the Caribbean, surrounded by women talking about their lives, their communities and the challenges they faced. Those … Continue reading TMU prof wins international prize for book on Black women and political power
Old building of Le Nouvelliste on Rue du Centre in Port-au-Prince before the gang attack on April 25, 2024. Photo credit: Archives of Le Nouvelliste The Haitian government and Le Nouvellisteโs leadership hope recognition will help preserve and digitize more than a century of Haitiโs oldest daily newspaper byย Juhakenson Blaise Mar. 12, 2026 Overview: Haitiโs … Continue reading Haiti nominates Le Nouvelliste archives for UNESCO heritage register
The Canada-Caribbean Institute 2026 Research Symposium opened today at the St. Augustine Campus of The UWI. In his Keynote Presentation, Canada's former Ambassador to the United Nations, the Hon. Bob Rae shared wide-ranging views on Canada-Caribbean relations, the shared colonial history of the Caribbean and Canada, reparations, security challenges in Haiti and the importance of … Continue reading Keynote Presentation from The Hon. Bob Rae to CCI Research Symposium now available on-line
Performing Power: Royalty and Reckoning in the Caribbeanโ brings together academics from the Visible Crown project to examine the enduring and contested presence of the British monarchy in the Caribbean. The panel explores how royal tours, especially the pivotal 1966 tour, were carefully choreographed by the Palace and diplomatic officials in order to promote a stable, benign … Continue reading FSS | Performing Power: Royalty and Reckoning in the Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda Sunday July 5 to Sunday July 26, 2026 This will be the first year that the University of Toronto will offer a summer course in Antigua and Barbuda. There will be one course offered. The course examines the structural foundations of violence and the histories of colonial law that undergird Caribbean jurisprudence. It … Continue reading Summer Abroad – Antigua and Barbuda (July)
Bicentenary and Centenary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 1825-2025 By Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD, FRHistS IIt is profoundly significant that in 2025, the Roman Catholic Church in Guyana (South America), and especially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, witnessed three momentous milestones, notably, 65th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral (1960-2025) marking … Continue reading Researching the History of the Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Georgetown, Guyana
Prof. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith recently delivered the 21st Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture to the Grenada Bar Association. The video of this event is now available. Well worth a viewing. https://youtu.be/qawH-j6nET8
On December 13, 2025 Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves will be sharing research from her book ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐จ-๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐: ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐๐ฎ๐ฒ๐๐ง๐) ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐ published by the Guyana Heritage Society in 2014, as well as subsequent research findings. This will be exactly 100 years after the Cathedral was opened. Incidentally, … Continue reading From Ashes to Ferro-Concrete: A History of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Guyana 1914-2014