“We now need to say to the British Government development is a shared responsibility…you have a role to play in this process, come back to the table and repair the damage you have done”. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), was speaking in his role as chairman […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]