As momentum grows across the Caribbean reparations movement, Saint Lucia’s youth are preparing to take a leading role in discussions on historical justice and the legacy of African enslavement through a planned National Youth Parliament initiative.

Every now-and-then, one feels very good about something – and that’s exactly how I felt on Thursday evening (May 7, 2026), while following a youth debate on Reparations in the St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) national parliament.

It is “inconceivable” that reparatory justice from Britain for the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans will not be “front and centre” of the next Commonwealth leaders’ meeting, the former prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has said.

DECLARING that the Caribbean’s fight for reparation must not “fall prey to distractions and sideshows”, former St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has dismissed arguments about African involvement in slavery, labelling them as attempts to divert attention from the role European states played in slavery.