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KINGSTON, Jamaica August 6, 2026 — Sixty-four years after the Union Jack came down at the National Stadium, Jamaica is still asking…
There is something wonderfully revealing about land. Long after governments change, flags are replaced and constitutions are rewritten, the land remembers. It…
Barbados’ Codrington Trust, custodian of lands left to found an Anglican college in 1710, says 25 residents got property conveyances in a year under an $18 million reparations programme, with all residents meant to be landowners by 2028.
Jamaica’s decision to take its reparations campaign directly to King Charles III this September marks another significant chapter in a debate that…
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.
Cuba is signalling openness to compensating Americans for property seized in 1959, but the offer is conditional on lifting the embargo, and excludes a large group of claimants entirely.
A new report has attempted to quantify what was once considered impossible to measure. Researchers now estimate that Britain extracted around 25 million years…
proposal by Reform UK to deny visas to citizens of countries pursuing slavery reparations has triggered a reaction far beyond immigration policy.…
Kidnapped from Igboland and enslaved in St Elizabeth, Archibald John Monteath became a Moravian evangelist, bought his freedom in 1837 and land in 1839, and was buried near the missionaries at Carmel.
Given 700 acres near Santa Cruz in 1755, Jamaica’s first Moravian missionaries built Carmel on swampland, held enslaved Africans to work it, and buried so many of their own there that the station was closed in 1823.
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