Reparations Today

“The conversation gives us the dignity of agency which has been deprived of us by the actions of the Church of England.”

However, the Task Force wishes to make clear that as admirable and praise-worthy as this project is, we do not consider it to be a reparations or a reparatory justice project. Rather, we consider it to be a social justice project that is, no doubt, rooted in the strong ecumenical outreach and principles of the USPG.

Over the last decade, the Caribbean reparatory justice movement has seen an unprecedented injection of energy from private and public entities including governments, inter/non-governmental organisations, educational institutions, families, and activists, building on the centuries-old movement for emancipation and decolonisation more broadly.

The chairman of the National Reparations Commission in Suriname, Armand Zunder, says the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country “can and must learn” from its regional neighbours on how to tackle the decolonization process expeditiously

The Haitian government has appointed Fritz Deshommes, the rector of the State University of Haiti (UEH), as the country’s representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission, tasked with ensuring reparations and restitution.

In recognizing Emancipation Day on Thursday, August 1, 2024, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Hon. PJ Patterson in an address observing the day, expressed optimism, and acknowledged that support from nations within the Commonwealth, particularly nations in Africa and the Caribbean, could significantly accelerate the implementation of reparation justice.

The Bahamas National Reparations Committee was relaunched on Friday with its chairperson Dr. Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean telling reporters she believes it is only a matter of time before the descendants of the Atlantic slave trade are given restitution.

IN 1985, under the George Chambers administration, TT became the first country in the world to commemorate the end of African enslavement by marking Emancipation Day with a public holiday.

The Bahamas National Reparations Committee officially relaunched on Friday just days ahead of Emancipation Day and a decade after it was first formed.

England’s most senior cleric has declared that the £100 million fund, established to address the past wrongs of the Church and its role in slavery, must be managed by the descendants of victims.

Fergus said, “Reparations for genocide and enslavement of native peoples is the natural culmination of the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism…”