Leaders of the Caribbean Rastafari community participated actively in the reparations conference.
October 15, 2014
no responses
Establishment of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee
The following is a press statement by Fred Mitchell, Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration made on March 24th, 2014:
At the Thirty-First Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regular Meeting held 23 July 2013, the Heads agreed on an action plan on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery, […]
October 12, 2014
no responses
Second Caricom Reparation Conference
By The Most Honourable P.J Patterson ON, OCC, PC, QC
Honourable Gaston Brown, Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, Hon. Freundal Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Chair of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Reparations, Minister Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture and Leader of the Jamaican Delegation. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of […]
September 29, 2014
no responses
Jamaica Calculates Its Reparations Money
By Bert Wilkinson
As governments and the civil society movement prepare for a major conference on reparations in idyllic Antigua next month, the Jamaicans have not surprisingly fired the first salvo in the battle over the amount that nations such as Britain would have to pay for their role in the brutal transAtlantic slave trade.
Jamaica’s […]
September 29, 2014
no responses
Cuba Supports Caribbean Reparations
Cites Haitian Revolution as “forerunner” of liberation movements in Latin America and Caribbean
NEW YORK, United States, Monday September 29, 2014, CMC – Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has called for “profound reform” of the United Nations, starting with the 15member Security Council, saying that the SecretaryGeneral should be “an advocator and guarantor of international […]
June 18, 2014
no responses
Africans Have Apologized for Slavery, So Why Won’t the US?
Five years ago I stood in a slave castle on Senegal’s Gorée Island at the infamous Door of No Return. Our guide told us that once Africans walked through this doorway, which opened right into the Atlantic Ocean, they were gone forever. During the slave trade, shackled blacks were led out the door and forced […]
June 9, 2014
no responses
Barbados Prime Minister Explains Unemployment Through Caribbean Slave History
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday June 9, 2014, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has cited traditional high Caribbean unemployment as a reason for current challenges to the National
Insurance Service (NIS) fund that pays relief benefits to workers who lose their jobs.
Derek Osbourne, an actuary at the Bahamian company, Horizonnow Consultants, who conducted an actuarial review […]
June 2, 2014
no responses
Ta-Nehisi Coates lay out the inescapable math of American racism
“If you say that African Americans have an inferior culture, have cultural pathologies that they’re carrying with them, it seems to me you have to ask why that would be,” Ta-Nehisi Coates says.
May 5, 2014
no responses
Reparations Are Imperative: The Stagnate “State of Black America”
I recently attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Report is an extremely important document because it provides key indicators of Black progress in a number of social and economic areas in relationship to White Americans. This year’s […]
April 24, 2014
no responses
Reparations: A Global Struggle After a Global Crime
Freedom cannot be compromised Nation of Islam minister tells a Chicago gathering focused on justice for the descendants of survivors, victims of trans-Atlantic slave trade
Photos: Haroon Rajaee and Tim 6X
The […]
April 1, 2014
no responses
Callie House and the Struggle for Reparations
By William Reed
Under President Barack Obama, the concept of affirmative action has fallen flat. Those who thought their fortunes would be better under a Black president are advised to support a role model such as Callie House. On the other end of the continuum, Callie House was a pioneering African-American political activist who sought […]
March 27, 2014
no responses
We Must not Apologize for Reparations Demands
By Renwick Rose
I remain unapologetic in my support for, and advocacy on, the issue of reparations for the victims of genocide of the indigenous people of the Caribbean and the inhuman trade in African people. It is my fervent hope that the vast majority of the people of the Caribbean, here and in the diaspora, […]
