Reparations
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Reparations for slavery? Wishing and hoping…
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE news that 14 countries making up CARICOM are about to launch a formal, concerted effort to lay out claims of reparations for slavery from Britain, France and the Netherlands immediately suggested to me that many of the leaders in our neck of the woods are either too taken up with pining for a lost love, or…
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Heads agree on reparations follow-up action
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the final day of their Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting agreed on follow-up action on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery. The Meeting agreed to the establishment of a National Reparations Committee in each Member State with the Chair of each Committee sitting on…
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Demand for slavery reparations deposited at Dutch embassy
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The compensation many descendants of Dutch slavery feel is due to them became official after members of the Committee Reparations Slavery Past Suriname deposited a claim at the Dutch embassy here. “We want to discuss the material and immaterial damage,” said Committee Chairman Armand Zunder as he presented a petition to Dutch charge d'affaires Ernst Noorman.…
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Britain’s expression of regret and the reparations debate
KINGSTON, Jamaica – England's expression yesterday of sincere regret and offer of compensation for the acts of torture that a British colonial government carried out against Kenyans fighting for liberation from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s, will, we expect, revive the reparations debate in the Caribbean. As reported on page 29 of today's Jamaica Observer, the simultaneous announcement…
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