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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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.
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 […]
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
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 […]
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, […]
ADDRESS BY DR. THE HON. RALPH GONSALVES PRIME MINISTER, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF ON THE OCCASION OF THE THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
I have the distinct honour and pleasure of addressing the Caribbean Community on the historic occasion of the Bicentenary of the passage […]
by Professor Rex Nettleford
I come from that part of the Americas – the Caribbean – which is arguably the living laboratory of the dynamism of the encounters between Africa and Europe on foreign soil, and both with the Native American who had inhabited the real estate of the Americas time out mind, during periods of […]
The adoption of the Resolution by the 61 st General Assembly of the United Nations, which was co-sponsored by CARICOM Member States and which designated 25 March as the International Day to mark the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, set in motion a series of international events to mark this historic moment. The Nineteenth […]
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