The Urgent Call for Reparations for Slavery Hits Home By Grenada National Reparations Committee St George’s, Grenada, April 16, 2022: National Reparations Committee (GNRC) commissioners are appalled but not surprised by a recent revelation by researchers in the United Kingdom that in the early 1770s— the Bank of England acquired and subsequently owned 599 enslaved […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Monday, 19 July 2021) – The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) welcomes recent developments in the movement for reparatory justice, especially in the Caribbean and across the United States, and the wide media coverage of the movement in the aftermath of the globalization of the Black Lives Matter campaign. Rastafari, civil […]
National Council on Reparations to continue Nation-wide Consultations (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Tuesday, 14 Jul. 2020) – Speaking at a recent media engagement sponsored by the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, expressed the Jamaican government’s ongoing commitment to the cause of reparations for the […]
Cites need for a “Development Compact” with Britain and Europe (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Tuesday, 14 Jul. 2020) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is calling for a Caribbean Marshall Plan and for reparations to address “the economic decline” that the region will face as it confronts a combination of the negative […]
Says the time has come for a Caribbean Development Plan (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Wednesday, 8 July 2020) – Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), is calling for a reparations summit involving the governments of the Caribbean and of Europe and with representatives of their private corporations, universities […]
Now is the time to move “From Apology to Action” The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) will convene a virtual media engagement on July 6 to update the media on recent developments in the CARICOM region’s push for reparatory justice for the historical crimes of native genocide and African enslavement in the Caribbean region. The media […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Hon Gaston Browne has emphasised that financial reparations were the best way for colonisers to make amends for the wrongs they had committed. The Prime Minister was speaking at the opening of a symposium titled “Western Banking, Colonialism and Reparations” at the Jolly Beach Hotel in […]
(Issued on behalf of the CARICOM Reparations Commission) This announcement was made by the Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), Prof Verene Shepherd at a press conference held at the Regional Headquarters of The University of the West Indies (UWI) on June 10. She also revealed that the CRC was in the process of preparing […]
