On December 13, 2025 Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves will be sharing research from her book 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨-𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞: 𝐀 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐆𝐮𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚) 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟒-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒 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
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The Netherlands' King Willem Alexander, second from left, and Queen Maxima, left, pose for photos with Suriname President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons and her husband Glenn Geerlings, right, during an official welcome ceremony for the country's 50th independence anniversary, at the presidential palace in Paramaribo, Suriname, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bentik Paulus) PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Representatives … Continue reading Indigenous Surinamese accept Dutch king’s apology for colonial slavery
When and Where Tuesday, January 13, 2026 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm William Doo Auditorium, New College III 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C7 Speakers Audra A. Diptée, Ph.D Description Join us for a community event with Audra A. Diptée, 2025/2026 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Dr. Diptée will present on her … Continue reading Brown Bag with Audra A. Diptée – Chained in Paradise: History as the Battlefield for the Caribbean Future
On first official visit to UK, group calls for mutually beneficial programme to clean up ‘mess’ left by colonialism Sir Hilary Beckles: ‘All dimensions of our civilisation have been subject to severe extraction of wealth.’ November 18, 2025 Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent The Caribbean’s slavery reparations body has decried misleading press reports that suggest their aim … Continue reading Caribbean slavery reparations body decries claims it aims to ‘break UK Treasury’
November 14, 2025 The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) will undertake a groundbreaking visit to the United Kingdom from 17 – 20 November 2025 to advance its advocacy for reparatory justice. The delegation’s mission is to strengthen strategic partnerships and promote a joint programme of public education and engagement on the reparations agenda. The visit is … Continue reading CARICOM Reparations Commission Delegation to Visit United Kingdom for Strategic Advocacy Engagements
The "Battle of the Caribbean" There is much talk today of the Caribbean as a 'Zone of Peace". It certainly wasn't always. Last year we featured a very interesting story in the London Review of Books, written by Colin Douglas, of the place of the Caribbean in World War 2. The image below summarizes a … Continue reading Honouring Remembrance Week #2
Large number of NGOs issue a statement Yesterday, October 19, marked the anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada. Forty-two years later, regional sovereignty remains a vexed question in the Caribbean, and it is being put to the test by the current US military incursions that have resulted in six strikes against vessels in the … Continue reading In Nobody’s Backyard: Open Letter Opposing US Military Incursions and Reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
The University of the West Indies Press (UWI Press) is pleased to announce that two of its publications have received distinguished Caribbean awards. “Near a Plantation: Free Villages of Barbados, 1840-1945” by Professor Emeritus Sir Woodville Marshall has received the 2025 Elsa Goveia Memorial Book Prize. This biennial award, presented by the Association of Caribbean Historians, … Continue reading UWI Press Takes Home Two Prestigious Caribbean Awards
January 26, 2025 Written by Janine Mendes-Franco After much public discussion about the role of statuary, iconography and other visible aspects of the Caribbean's shared colonial past — the presence of which, to many, continues to whitewash the accuracy of the historical narrative — Trinidad and Tobago's government has decided to make changes to the country's coat of … Continue reading Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms
James Bowden, at the last minute, was unable to present his paper at our recent Research Symposium. We are very pleased to note that the paper has now been published by the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. ABSTRACT In 1917, the Privy Council Office of Canada produced a memorandum arguing that London should transfer the British … Continue reading From Sea to Sea to the Caribbean Sea: Canadian sub-imperialism in the British West Indies and Commonwealth Caribbean, 1917–2014