Reparations

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 6, 2026 — Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is…

There is something wonderfully revealing about land. Long after governments change, flags are replaced and constitutions are rewritten, the land…

Jamaica’s decision to take its reparations campaign directly to King Charles III this September marks another significant chapter in a…

Eight months after Hurricane Melissa, the Jamaican diaspora is redefining what it means to build back home — from Windrush reforms in Britain to a landmark diaspora conference in Montego Bay and a global reparations push reshaping Caribbean diplomacy.

Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Jamaica in April 2015. He landed at Norman Manley International Airport, met Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, spoke about diaspora connections, and left. Jamaica decriminalised cannabis the same month. In May, Britain re-elected a Conservative government.