The CARICOM Reparations Commission heads to the United Kingdom this week as part of a renewed push to build support for reparatory justice, amid what it described as growing global momentum.
A statement from the CARICOM Secretariat said the July 13 to16 mission will include meetings with diplomats, academics and civil society organizations, as well as a presentation at the UK Parliament.
The Commission says the visit is aimed at strengthening strategic partnerships and advancing public education and civil society engagement on reparatory justice.
According to the CRC, the visit comes as CARICOM member states prepare for the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua & Barbuda and follows several recent developments that have strengthened the international reparations movement.
These include the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in March of a Ghana-led resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement the "gravest crime against humanity."
The CARICOM Reparations Commission heads to the United Kingdom this week as part of a renewed push to build support for reparatory justice, amid what it described as growing global momentum.
A statement from the CARICOM Secretariat said the July 13 to16 mission will include meetings with diplomats, academics and civil society organizations, as well as a presentation at the UK Parliament.
The Commission says the visit is aimed at strengthening strategic partnerships and advancing public education and civil society engagement on reparatory justice.
According to the CRC, the visit comes as CARICOM member states prepare for the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua & Barbuda and follows several recent developments that have strengthened the international reparations movement.
These include the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in March of a Ghana-led resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement the "gravest crime against humanity."
Braverman's claim
The visit will come against the background of a controversial statement by former Conservative Home Affairs Minister Suella Braverman, who on July 3, claimed that “former colonies should pay the British back for the considerable investment, effort and contribution that this country made which laid the foundations for many flourishing democracies today.”
She was responding on X to news that Jamaica (a member of CARICOM) planned to lodge a formal petition for reparations later this year.
When asked to respond to Braverman’s comment, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados described it as “asinine.”
“I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them,” Mottley later wrote on X last Thursday. “The Caribbean does not owe Britain for slavery, for colonial extraction, or for laws that treated African people as chattel. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for justice, and history itself has already told the truth.”
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