Black News · Civil Rights · September 20, 2026
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- Caribbean nations call for reparations from UK for transatlantic slave trade (via jpost.com)
Caribbean nations call for reparations from UK for transatlantic slave trade. Caribbean officials are considering legal strategies in an effort to get the United Kingdom into a negotiation for a reparations deal, The Guardian reported on Saturday. The recent push came during the CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations, which took place from Thursday to Saturday, the Guardian reported. The conference was hosted by Barbados, and, according to its website, featured between 150-20 representatives from numerous Caribbean nations, including governmental officials, academics, activists, and cultural leaders. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley compared slavery to the Holocaust during the conference, the Guardian cited, pointing out that the German government had repaid the Jewish community $95b. She said that she did not want anybody to “diminish the fact that in this country here, which I have the honor to lead, that from settlement in 1627, 400 years ago next year, for 211 years, not six, people were treated as chattel. “If they dared to speak or to do things that were displeasing, their lives and limbs were put at risk. What is absent is the will,” she said. Repair Campaign adviser calls for multigenerational plan “We need a concrete, multigenerational plan,” Ralph Gonsalves, former prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines who now serves as an elder and adviser for the Repair Campaign, said.[1]
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