PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines does not hide his passion for wanting reparation for slavery, which he describes as a “brutal, exploitative and dehumanising system”. He insists that Caribbean countries do “have a very strong case to put to an appropriate tribunal” and has welcomed the decision of his fellow Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to establish a committee under the chairmanship of the Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart to drive the issue. Suriname has already said it would instruct the councils of the Union of South American States to collect “all relevant information for Suriname and CARICOM” on the reparation matter.