Reparations on CARICOM Heads of Government agenda

By Michelle Nurse On Jun 26, 2015

Prime Minister of Barbados, the Hon. Fruendel Stuart

When the CARICOM Heads of Government gather here early next month for the 36th Regular Meeting, they are expected to continue “fleshing out” the initiatives that have to be taken to push the reparations agenda forward.

This disclosure has come from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who acknowledged that progress was being made towards Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery and that there was consensus across the region that leaders must go in that direction.

Mr. Stuart, who chairs the Reparations sub-committee, said the Heads viewed it as necessary to have talks with those former slave trading countries, England, France and Holland. “This is not a diplomacy of protest; it is a diplomacy of engagement because most of those countries are now our friends and who better to discuss issues like this with than friends.