Caribbean leaders meet with UK representatives over slavery reparations – JURIST
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Committee met with Church of England clergy and British parliamentarians on Tuesday to discuss reparations for slavery.
In their effort to move from public advocacy to formal negotiations, CARICOM planned a visit to the United Kingdom from July 13 to July 16 to demand more than the previous one forgiveness or commemoration, but actual aid to Caribbean island nations. Hilary Beckles, Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, MOVED King Charles III “to start the conversation of decolonization and restorative justice for the crimes” he endured in the islands.
In their 50 pages manifestothe reparations commission called for development funding, support to help the health care and education crisis, debt cancellation, monetary compensation for indigenous peoples, and greater sovereignty for Caribbean territories that remain tied to Britain, France, the Netherlands, or the United States.
CARICOM is one Intergovernmental trade organization established in 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas, dedicated to regional integration among 21 countries in the Caribbean, stretching from the Bahamas to Guyana. Jamaica, one of its founding members, will be petition King Charles III on 6 September to refer a set of legal questions to the Privy Council regarding reparations for slavery.
Suella Braverman, a former British Home Secretary and a member of the anti-immigration Reform party in the United Kingdom, he answered for news of the petition protesting: “The British Empire did a lot of good for the world.“ She further stated that the former colonies should repay Britain for its “historic investment” in them. In an already viral reply On July 9, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley strongly rejected the idea that “descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them.” Mottley added: “The Caribbean does not owe Britain slavery, colonial extraction, or laws that treated African people as scum.”
