Barbadian historian, UWI vice-chancellor and CARICOM Reparations Commission chair
Caricom's reparations commission has convened in London to press Britain on sovereignty, decolonisation and reparations. It seeks a framework for negotiations and calls for a formal apology, debt relief and development programs, while urging the King to anchor decolonisation in policy. The Caribbean asserts it remains the most colonised region and demands concrete actions, including self-determination for overseas territories.
Leaders from Africa, the Caribbean and beyond have aligned on a 19-point framework, endorsed at a Ghana summit, to turn UN recognition of transatlantic slavery into concrete reparatory measures. The plan calls for debt relief, cultural restitution and new global panels to guide implementation, with growing cross‑regional support and ongoing debates over the specifics of compensation.