CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) Back row L- R: Ambassador David Comissiong, Senator Trevor Prescod (Barbados); Mr Arley Gill (Grenada); Mr Dorbrene O’Marde (Antigua); Mr Earl Bousquet (Saint Lucia); Mr Eric Philipps (Guyana); Ms Carla Astaphan (St. Kitts & Nevis); Dr Damien Dublin (Dominica) Front row L-R: Dr Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean (The Bahamas); Professor Verene Shepherd (Director, Centre for Reparations Research, The UWI); Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (Chairman, CRC); Dr Hilary Brown (Programme Manager, CARICOM Secretariat); Ms Laleta Davis Mattis (Jamaica)

CARICOM REPARATIONS COMMISSION ATTRIBUTES RECENT PROGRESS TO STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Wednesday, 20 September 2023 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown):  Reflecting on ten (10) years of activities aimed at defining a path to reconciliation, truth and justice for victims of slavery and native genocide and their descendants, the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has attributed recent progress to strategic alliances with key stakeholders.

Strategic Partnerships

The CRC has built […]

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CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL ADVOCACY FOR REPARATORY JUSTICE: A MESSAGE FROM THE CARICOM REPARATIONS COMMISSION ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

In honour of the International Day for People of African Descent, the CARICOM Reparations Commission has issued the following Statement:

“The CARICOM Reparations Commission welcomes the opportunity to join the global community in observing the United Nations International Day for People of African Descent and to highlight the ongoing need for the international community to respect […]

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Grenada PM, the Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Dr. Nicole Phillip-Dowe, GNRC’s Vice-Chair and Deputy Director (Ag.) of The UWI Open Campus Country Sites, Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, VC of The UWI and Chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission and Arley Gill, Chair of the GNRC with the letter of apology presented by the Trevelyans

Historic reparative apology guided by The UWI and CARICOM Reparations Commission

(The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Press Release)—The first point in the Caribbean-led reparatory justice programme jointly championed by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and CARICOM calls for ‘formal and sincere apology’ as a precondition of healing for descendants of enslaved peoples.

The Trevelyan Family apology on Monday, February 27, during a forum […]

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CARICOM Reparations Commission and UWI Centres welcome Royal African Delegation

he UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Monday, February 27, 2023—A high-level delegation of royal African traditional leaders from AIDO Network International, will visit Jamaica from February 28 to March 6 for a series of activities hosted by the CARICOM Reparations Commission, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies (UWI), and its Centre for […]

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Reparations Webinar for The Saint Lucia Diaspora on Independence Sunday

The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) and the Office of the Ambassador for Diaspora Affairs will on Sunday present a special Webinar for the Saint Lucian and Caribbean Diaspora on ‘Reparations for The Caribbean & The Diaspora: Why, How and When?’ The Sunday, 21 February 2021 event — from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm […]

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CRR/SLNRC Regional Secondary School’s Virtual Lecture Conquest, Colonisation and the Imperial Project

Thank you Madame Chair – Professor Shepherd/Sister Verene
I am indeed pleased to bring comradely greetings from the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission – to the Centre for Reparation Research, the St Lucia National Reparations Committee and to the guest lecturers on this the third in the series of. I am sure that I am […]

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UN Committee issues recommendations to combat racial profiling

GENEVA (26 November 2020) — The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today published its guidance to combat racial profiling, emphasizing, among other issues, the serious risk of algorithmic bias when artificial intelligence (AI) is used in law enforcement.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), made up of 18 individual experts, has […]

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‘Regional and Revealing, Upbeat and Uplifting!’

‘Regional and Revealing, Upbeat and Uplifting!’

CASTRIES Saint Lucia, Thursday September 24, 2020:– The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) is promising an inaugural lecture in its schools that will be regional in content and purely Caribbean in character, with Saint Lucian and Caribbean students – and teachers – to get a first indication of how […]

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Saint Lucia NRC launches 2020-21 Annual Lecture Series

Monsignor calls for ‘Bold, Frank and Honest’ Regional Reparations Conversation

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, August 21, 2020:– A Saint Lucian church leader has paid tribute to early contributors to the struggles for Black Liberation and Social development in and from the Caribbean between the 1970s and the 21st Century and called for the current discussion on Reparations […]

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Caribbean Observes 186th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery

The “Bussa” Statue, in Barbados, created to commemorate the nation’s slave rebellion in 1816.

GEORGETOWN-Guyana -The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will observe the 186th anniversary of the abolition of slavery on Saturday, with the chairman of the regional integration movement, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves saying that this year’s observance is taking […]

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Saint Lucia NRC Planning Ahead for XXX Anniversary of Sir Arthur Lewis’ Passing

The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) and several stakeholder entities are organizing a year of activities leading to the XXX Anniversary of the passing of Sir Arthur Lewis, the island’s first of two Nobel Prize winners, who was also a pioneer of the Caribbean Reparations Movement.

The planned activities will follow the successful 2020 Sir […]

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Parallel 2020-2021 Saint Lucia Reparations Lecture Series to target Citizens, Schools and Kweyol Speakers

The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) announces two new parallel initiatives coming soon, later this year: a year-long National Online Reparations Lecture Series starting in August and a similar series for Schools in September.

The lecture series, which are jointly sponsored by the NRC and The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus […]

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