Freedmen News Watch · October 21, 2026, 6:20 PM CDT
Key Facts
- Call for slavery reparations to move ‘beyond sorrow’ (via Royal Gazette | Bermuda)
Call for slavery reparations to move ‘beyond sorrow’.
A charity dedicated to tackling racism has expressed “deep disappointment” in comments made by a UK Government minister on reparations over the island’s legacy of enslavement.
Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda also called for discussions on the subject to “move beyond sorrow”.
It cited the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as a forum where the UK can open a “serious, good-faith conversation” with the Caribbean and the Overseas Territories, including Bermuda, on a framework for reparatory justice.
During a visit to the island this week, Uma Kumaran, British Minister of State, rejected the idea of reparatory justice after it was put to her by The Royal Gazette in the wake of her participation in signing the historic Hamilton II Declaration at Government House.
Curb stated: “Britain says it sees Bermuda as a partner. Partners do not tell each other that the past is closed when its debts were only settled in 2015, and when even the Church of England has accepted that those debts are not yet paid.”
Although Ms Kumaran said Britain was aware of the “painful history” of slavery, the charity said awareness did not amount to justice.
“Acknowledgement without repair is simply a more polished form of refusal,” Curb said, adding that Ms Kumaran’s comment was nothing new.[1]
Where It Happened
The pin marks Kingston as named in the report, not an exact address. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors. Street photo (1988): De Geo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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