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Caribbean Life, April 14-20, 2022
Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad,
agitation and protests from a slew of nongovernmental
organizations and a clear picture
is beginning to emerge as to where the
fight for compensation is headed.
As the Prince William and his delegation
resettled in London and having reviewed
a tour that clearly went wrong, Caribbean
leaders are now preparing to dispatch a
demand letter to European capitals requesting
formal talks on the issue.
The matter was discussed at last month’s
mid-year heads of government conference
in Belize where the group decided to draft
the missive to Europe, the second such in
the past seven years. As PM of Barbados,
the island has the lead responsibility for
reparations. In the draft, Mottley complains
bitterly about London’s contempt for survivors
and the sloth of Europe to engage the
region.
“The countries in the Caribbean region
were subjected to generations of resourceextraction
and dehumanization of their people
in order to fund the economic growth of
European countries which colonized those
nations. We had no development compact
given to us at the point of independence,
but there was a compensatory package for
those who were slave owners, and there was
a further package for the apprenticeship
system,” she said.
She argued that Britain deliberately
ignored the victims of the brutal slave trade
and had set about finding about Sterling 47
million pounds way back at the time of abolition,
to pay slave owners.
“Fast forward now, 130 years to Jamaica
becoming independent, Trinidad, Guyana,
Barbados and we go down the line. None
of us were given a development compact.
We had to start providing for our people
without the benefit of any sort of development
funding. We had to deal with lack
of housing, educational opportunities, and
healthcare facilities, and we had to do this in
spite of the fact that substantial wealth was
extracted from our countries for centuries.”
This week, Assistant CARICOM Secretary
General, Douglas Slater said the “draft is
still being worked on and that is the only
update that we have as work is still being
done on it. I can’t say when it will be completed,”
he said of the document that is
being circulated among member nations
for input.
As the groundswell for reparations continues
unabated, Jamaican government
parliamentarian Mike Henry said that a
team of regional and London-based attorneys
have joined forces to sue Britain in
courts to make the UK comply with regional
demands.
The team is preparing to act because
many in the 15-nation bloc seem to believe
that not enough is being done to force the
hand of former slave traders.
“I have given them the case, which is
being done pro bono by a select team of
lawyers, including UK lawyers, for the attorney
general to take it to the Jamaica cabinet
for approval. If they are going to take two
years more then I must assume that they
don’t want it, and I am about to take a decision
to go public in order to get it done,”
the Observer newspaper quoted Henry as
saying.
The region has also asked for a summit
with Europe and recently amended tactics
to also link up with the African Union (AU).
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Britain’s Charles, Prince of Wales, greets Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley
ahead of their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change
Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain Nov. 1, 2021. Jane Barlow/Pool via
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