Reparations

from Caribbean National Weekly August 10, 2023

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Attendees included ambassadors and representatives from AU member states and the Caribbean Community political and economic union (CARICOM)

Hilary Beckles, who leads the CARICOM reparations commission, emphasized the signiﬁcance of the gathering during a press conference

Beckles noted that “humanity cannot go forward with all the toxic interferences of colonization ”

“We have to clean up this mess to allow humanity to function,” Beckles added

The CARICOM reparations commission, established to demand reparations from former colonial powers like the United Kingdom, France, and Portugal, sees the continual racial victimization of the descendants of slavery and genocide as the “root cause of their suﬀering today,” according to its 10-point reparation plan

Among the results of the Bridgetown assembly was a proposition for a cooperation roadmap between the AU and CARICOM, as detailed in the UWI statement Youssouf Mandoha, an AU oﬃcial, pointed out, “It is crucial to recognise how slavery, colonialism and racism intersect and impact the lives of Black people around the world ”