The Caribbean Community (Caricom) maintains as one of its priorities the demand for reparations from the United Kingdom for the transatlantic slave trade, a claim it plans to make during the meeting of heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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This summit, which takes place between this Sunday and next Wednesday in Antigua and Barbuda, a Caricom member and former British colony, will be attended by King Charles III, who this week also visited the Bahamas and Guyana.
Prior to the event, Carla Barnett, secretary-general of Caricom, an organization made up of fifteen Caribbean countries with headquarters in Guyana, assured that the issue of reparations is on their agenda because they are “crimes against humanity that we can never forget.”
Barbados welcomes the UK Prime Minister’s acknowledgement of the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade, his openness to a formal apology and his offer of structured dialogue.
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For Barnett, it is “a crucial moment in the search for reparative justice,” after the historic UN resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as “the most serious crime against humanity.”
Barbado Prime Minister Mia Mottly said in a statement that her country welcomes the UK Prime Minister’s acknowledgement of the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade, his opening to a formal apology and his offer of structured dialogue. Barbados, as a member of CARICOM, will engage in good faith while expressing its differences on reparations in a clear and respectful manner.
These differences should not stand in the way of progress in areas such as health, education, fighting poverty and inequality, and securing fairer debt terms for vulnerable states. The CARICOM Ten-Point Plan will continue to guide the quest for restorative justice.
The Commonwealth is made up of 56 countries with historical ties to the United Kingdom, including many African nations and most members of Caricom, an organization that created the Reparations Commission in 2013.
The president of this Commission, Barbadian historian Hilary Beckles, this month called for a resumption of the international debate on reparative justice and urged the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth to take concrete action.
“A democratic decision has been made on a global scale. The vast majority of humanity has stated that it is time to sit down and dialogue about the methodologies for repairing the legacies of this crime,” Beckles affirmed.
The historian insisted on the issue again this week and addressed Charles III directly, “the man who today reflects on his family’s history,” urging him to use his position as head of the Commonwealth to promote this dialogue.
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