Journey to Juneteenth: Caribbean Solidarity
STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF THE CARICOM REPARATIONS COMMISSION, SIR HILARY BECKLES, ON THE OBSERVATION OF JUNETEENTH As you, our African American compatriots, rise to recognise and celebrate the legal...
View ArticleBeckles Calls on Britain to Implement the Lewis Development Model for Caribbean
Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission and Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles, has once again called on Britain to come back to the table to discuss...
View ArticleBeckles Sends Emancipation Solidarity Message to Blacks in USA on Juneteenth
Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, Sir Hilary Beckles, on Friday expressed solidarity from the Caribbean with Black people in the United States on Juneteenth. The sentiments were...
View ArticleCaribbean Scholars Renew Reparations Call to Compensate for Native Genocide...
Scholars from the Caribbean recently renewed their call for reparations in recompense for hundreds of years of native genocide and enslavement in the region. The calls were made during a recent...
View ArticleCARICOM Reparations Commission Steps up Advocacy for Reparatory Justice
The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) will convene a virtual media engagement on 6 July to update the media on recent developments in CARICOM‘s push for reparatory justice for the historical crimes...
View ArticleBeckles calls for High-Level International Reparations Summit
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...
View ArticleJamaica Reaffirms its Commitment to Reparations
Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, Olivia Grange, has expressed the Jamaican government’s ongoing commitment to the cause of reparations for the Caribbean region. “The...
View ArticleBarbados Prime Minister Calls for a Reparations ‘Caribbean Marshall Plan’
Barbados Prime Minister, the Hon. 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 the negative...
View ArticleMessage from CARICOM Chairman on the 186th Anniversary of the Abolition of...
I urge all in CARICOM to focus on reparations for the enslavement of Africans on Emancipation Day, 2020. In our region, and elsewhere, we need to have a more thorough-going public education programme...
View ArticleNever Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste: Revisiting The CARICOM Single Domestic...
By Dr. Kai-Ann Skeete (Shridath Ramphal Centre Trading Thoughts) Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill who led Britain through World War II is credited as saying “never let a good crisis...
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