Caribbean Movement for Reparatory Justice We are not beggars! We are not subservient! We do not want Charity and handouts! We want Justice! Reparatory Justice! Sir Hilary Beckles Reparations for the slave era is an issue that has  increasingly resonated  in recent years and CARI...

The chairman of CARICOM’s Reparation Commission, Sir Hilary Beckles, has penned an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron pleading for him to respond to the calls for compensation by the British for the period of slavery in the region. According to Sir Hillary, otherwise, there c...

Basseterre, St. Kitts – (SKNIS): A two-day conference hosted by the St. Kitts and Nevis UNESCO National Commission and forming part of the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the UNESCO International Scientific Slave Route Project, has reopened the dial...

When the CARICOM Heads of Government gather in Barbados early next month for the 36th Regular Meeting, they are expected to continue “fleshing out” the initiatives that have to be taken to push the reparations agenda forward. This disclosure has come from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart,...

NEW YORK, USA (CMC) — An international conference on reparations has ended here with a call for Caribbean governments to proceed urgently with the recommendation that the slave-owning and slave-trading European nations be invited to attend an inter-governmental reparatory justice summit in 201...

SCORES OF reparations advocates, Pan-Africanists and social justice activists from the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean will gather in New York City this week (April 9-12) for an historic Reparations Summit which will see the formal launch of the National African-American Repar...

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 23, 2015 (SKNIS): Final checks are being made by officials in St. Kitts and Nevis to ensure that all is set for Tuesday’s (March 24) start of the 33rd Model OAS General Assembly (MOAS) for Universities of the Hemisphere.   Specialist with the MOAS Pr...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will not “pursue the issue of reparations on the basis of a diplomacy of protest” but “on the basis of a diplomacy of engagement,” assures Barbados Prime Minister R...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will not “pursue the issue of reparations on the basis of a diplomacy of protest” but “on the basis of a diplomacy of engagement,” assures Barbados Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart. Prime Minister Stuart, who Chairs the Prime Minister...

The fifth summit between Caricom nations and Cuba will be held in Havana. Caricom-Cuba continues to model stronger ties among Caribbean nations strengthing solidarity and cooperation in the region. On Monday, the Fifth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit with Cuba will take place in...