The Centre for Reparation Research, The university of the West Indies presents a seminar:
Friday, October 19, 2018
10:00am – 12 noon
Dr. Aleem Mohammed Room
Regional Headquarters, the UWI
2A Hermitage Road, Kingston 7
Presenter:
Professor Brian Meeks
April 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, a heroic uprising against the British Empire in its oldest colonial territory.
But this month also marks the bicentenary of an earlier and less well […]
St. Andrew, Jamaica. Today, 13 of the 15 independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries celebrate “Emancipation Day” with a public holiday and a day of national observance. Emancipation Day commemorates August 1, 1838 when the enslaved people of African descent across the region finally received emancipation from Chattel Slavery and Indentureship. On this 180th anniversary of […]
We join annually with communities across the world in marking the moment in which the crime of chattel enslavement was confronted and uprooted from our existential realities. For us, the moment is August 1st; other dates are determined elsewhere and officially recognized.
Marking the moment in a celebratory fashion remains necessary despite the despicable nature […]
The Centre for Reparation Research (CRR) has had an exciting nine months and we are delighted to share our news and activities with you – from the launch of the Centre in October 2017 to our dialogue with our church leaders in June 2018. How did it all begin? The CRR was approved by the […]
In a recent article published in The Gleaner titled ‘Caribbean expats mean much to Britain’, Lord Tariq Ahmad, the British minister of state with responsibility for the Caribbean, Commonwealth and the United Nations, took the opportunity to highlight the sterling contribution of the Windrush Generation to the UK’s post-World War II development.
Lord Ahmad’s history lesson […]
Expresses Commitment to Work with her on Reparations Matters
St. Andrew, Jamaica. The Centre for Reparation Research (“CRR”) congratulates Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados on her assumption of the leadership of CARICOM’s Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Reparations.
The Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee acts as a conduit between the CARICOM Reparations Commission (“CRC”), established in 2013 at the […]
Region Talk: Third Annual Carol Bristol Distinguished Lecture
On this episode of Region Talk we feature Third Annual Carol Bristol Distinguished lecture entitled “Get on Board […]
Photo: Mark Bell Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (at podium), speaks at Reparation Youth Conference, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown, Kingston, on Friday (May 25). […]
DIRECTOR of the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), Bernard Jankee says the issue of reparatory justice is one that (continues) to affect the labour movement.
He was speaking Monday at the the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) in downtown Kingston at a panel discussion on ‘Reparation and the Modern Labour Movement in Jamaica’ — […]
Caracas, May 8th – 10th, 2018
DECLARATION
We, activists, scholars, government representatives and social movements, gathered in the city of Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from 8th to 10th May, 2018, on the anniversary of the anti-slavery and humanitarian rebellion of the Maroon Jose Leonardo Chirino, which occurred in Las Macanillas, Falcon State, on May 10th, 1795, […]
The Caricom Reparations Commission is a project under the auspices of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM.
Archivering En Reparations (PPTX)
Greater Georgetown, Guyana
info@caribbeanreparations.org
592-222-0001/75
