slavery

Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), Professor Verene Shepherd announced  that the the list of countries to be targeted for reparations was being expanded. She made the announcement recently at a press conference held at…
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On the anniversary of abolition, we must end the discrimination that is the legacy of that horrific past By Guy Hewitt, High Commissioner of Barbados in London 1 August, 2018 (The Guardian)  Lest we forget, 1 August marks the 184th…
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Emancipation Day Message by Dr. Hilary Beckles, Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission We join annually with communities across the world in marking the moment in which the crime of chattel enslavement was confronted and uprooted…
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A loan that was taken by the British Government to pay slave owners for the abolition of slavery in 1834 was not fully repaid until 2015. This disclosure was made by Vice-Chancellor of The UWI and Chair of the CARICOM Reparations…
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