The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 sent complex waves through the Jamaican diaspora and across the island itself — accelerating the republic movement, prompting fierce debate about the meaning of grief, and marking the end of an era that connected the Caribbean to the Crown through memory, loyalty and loss.

Queen Elizabeth II’s death on 8 September 2022 intensifies Jamaica’s republican ambitions as Charles III accedes to the throne. The Home Office launches a media campaign in Jamaica for Windrush claimants. The compensation scheme surpasses £64 million and the UK resumes deportation charter flights to the island. Our quarterly diaspora and Windrush update.

Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales visit Jamaica in March 2022 and are met by reparations protests and a prime ministerial declaration of republican intent. More than 100 Jamaican leaders sign a formal slavery letter. The Windrush compensation scheme continues and 21 Jamaicans are rescued from a deportation charter flight. Our quarterly diaspora and Windrush update.

In March 2022, Prince William arrived in Jamaica to protests and a prime minister who told him Britain was being left behind. Three months later, a bronze family stood in Sunday best atop a pile of suitcases at Waterloo Station — the National Windrush Monument, unveiled by the same prince.

When Barbados became the Caribbean’s newest republic in November 2021, it electrified a conversation about Jamaica’s own constitutional future from Kingston to Brooklyn. In the same month, a damning parliamentary report found that only five per cent of Windrush scandal victims in Britain had received compensation.

Twenty-three Windrush generation members die without receiving compensation, prompting legal action against the Home Secretary. Jamaica demands £7.6 billion in reparations as the British High Commissioner dismisses the claim. Barbados becomes a republic in November 2021, intensifying pressure on Jamaica to follow suit. Our quarterly diaspora and Windrush update.

Two years after the Windrush Compensation Scheme launched, the Al Jazeera and Home Affairs Committee findings reveal that the vast majority of eligible claimants remain uncompensated. The Good Law Project escalates legal pressure. Jamaica PM Holness calls for justice. Windrush Day 2021 marks another year without closure. Our quarterly diaspora and Windrush update.

In six weeks in the spring of 2020, a pandemic arrived and a man was killed on a street in Minneapolis, and the world the Jamaican diaspora had known changed in ways that are still being measured. The lockdown and George Floyd’s murder defined a generation.

When Boris Johnson entered Downing Street in July 2019 with a promise to deliver Brexit by any means, the Caribbean community in Britain faced a simple and frightening question: what would leaving the European Union mean for people whose right to be here had already proved more fragile than anyone had admitted?

As Boris Johnson enters Downing Street and Priti Patel takes over the Home Office, the Windrush Compensation Scheme completes its first months of operation — but applications are slow, payouts are minimal, and the community asks whether justice will ever come.