Tasmania’s Anglican Church cut its redress sale list from 107 to 73 properties, sparing churches such as Evandale and Hagley, but the Southern Midlands still faced losing seven of eight churches.

At least 350 Christian-owned properties on Iraq’s Nineveh plains were occupied by officials while their owners were displaced by the Islamic State, with only 50 blocked from sale, a Premier report said.

The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle sold St James Church at Bungwahl, built by a pioneer in 1873 and given to the church, for more than $450,000, taking 40 per cent for abuse redress as locals protested.

A Gleaner history traced the Moravian Church in Jamaica from 700 donated acres near Santa Cruz in 1755 to the Carmel estate, the purchase of Fairfield and a chapel on donated land at Hopeton, showing how land shaped the mission.

David Cameron arrives in Jamaica in late September 2015, announces £25m for a prison and tells parliament the country should move on from slavery. The visit becomes one of the most diplomatically provocative acts in Caribbean-British relations in a generation — and galvanises support for reparations across the region and the diaspora.

Cameron’s unexpected majority in May 2015 signals five more years of hostile environment immigration policy and continued refusal to discuss reparations. But the Caribbean is not waiting: CARICOM’s ten-point programme is gaining traction, and Jamaica’s parliament is preparing to formally back the reparatory justice cause.

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.

In March 2014, CARICOM heads of government unanimously adopt a ten-point reparatory justice programme — the most comprehensive and formally organised reparations claim in the history of the Caribbean. Meanwhile, the Immigration Bill makes its way through Westminster, carrying measures that will deepen the hostile environment for Caribbean-born British residents.

In July 2013, the Home Office deploys billboard vans in six London boroughs telling illegal immigrants to ‘Go Home or Face Arrest’. The vans drive through streets where Caribbean families have lived for half a century. At the same moment, CARICOM is establishing a formal Reparations Commission. Britain’s message to the Caribbean could scarcely be more contradictory.

In the first half of 2013, CARICOM heads of government commit to establishing a formal Reparations Commission, building the Caribbean’s collective case for redress from European colonial powers. In Britain, the hostile environment is taking shape in policy and legislation that will have profound consequences for the Caribbean diaspora.