Chair of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent St. George’s: The Grenada National Reparations Committee (GNRC) extends congratulations to St. Lucia-born Dr. June Soomer, who is now Chair of the UN-backed Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD). The United Nations General Assembly launched the Permanent Forum in 2021 as a consultative mechanism […]
Delegates from Africa and other countries that met at a conference in Senegal, from December 4-8, were updated on the Caribbean’s struggle for reparations from Europe. Reparations are a call for “repair for the damage caused by indigenous holocaust and indigenous genocide’’ and the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, said lawyer Arley Gill, who is […]
St. George’s: The Grenada National Reparations Committee (GNRC) says direct Caribbean-to-Africa airlift should be a focus of ongoing attempts at strengthening ties between Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries and African Union (AU) nations. “There is perhaps no better way for Africans on the continent and those in the Caribbean Diaspora to reconnect than to be able to […]
STATEMENT BY THE GRENADA NATIONAL REPARATIONS COMMITTEE (GNRC) St. George’s, Grenada: On 1st August 1834, Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act. The Abolition Act prohibited the buying, selling and owning of human beings in British colonies. It was the beginning of freedom for 800,000 enslaved people in the English-speaking Caribbean. The significance of August 1st is […]
By Lincoln DePradine Local attorney Arley Gill, who is a leading advocate in the Grenada and Caribbean movement that’s demanding reparations for the enslavement of Africans in the region, has said that Britain’s King Charles must do more than express sorrow over slavery. Reparations payment, “ultimately, is what we want,’’ Gill said in an interview […]
St George’s, April 21, 2022: It’s been more than a week since the Grenada National Reparations Committee (GNRC) wrote a letter to Governor General Dame Cecile La Grenade, “seeking an audience with the Earl and Countess of Wessex’’, who were scheduled to visit Grenada next Tuesday, April 26. The visit, however, is reported to have […]
