Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles addresses the UN’s commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Durban Conference on Racism and Xenophobia.
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The University of the West Indies expresses its dismay and disappointment in the development in Kingstown, Saint Vincent, that resulted in physical injury to the nation’s honourable and distinguished prime…
Watch Video — Professor Sir Hilary Beckles delivers speech “The Economics of Chattel Slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas.” during the May 20, 2021 virtual symposium on “Reparations Under…
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By Professor Sir Hilary Beckles — On behalf of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, allow me to congratulate members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties for conducting this Congressional hearing on the HR40 Bill. Your hearing comes at a time when the global movement for reparatory justice for 250 years of enslavement and genocide and for dismantling the structures of systemic racism and white supremacy…
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This is the third article in a series that highlights the question of slavery reparations in the Caribbean. (The first is here; the second is here.) It is based around issues discussed…
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This is the second article in a series that highlights the question of slavery reparations in the Caribbean. (See Part 1 here.) It is based around issues discussed in the…
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By George Alleyne — The CARICOM Reparations Committee wants $50 billion as money for an Investment Development Fund donated as a starting point by entities that profited from slavery, and apologised for their role, to begin the…
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This is the first article in a series that highlights the question of slavery reparations in the Caribbean. It is based around issues discussed in the NCG Bocas Lit Fest’s live stream…
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October 12, 2020 — The Centre for Reparations Research and the University of the West Indies presents it’s 3rd Anniversary Symposium “The Indigenous Peoples and Colonising Deformities: Africa, the Americas,…
![Al Jazeera — Should Britain pay Reparations for its part in the slave trade? Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Committee, tells us what the UK should do.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/should-britain-pay-reparations-for-its-part-in-the-slave-trade-910x512-1.jpg)
British banks, prime ministers and parish vicars made millions from the slave trade. Plus Wirecard’s missing billions. The toppling of slave owner Edward Colston’s statue amid the Black Lives Matter…
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Says the time has come for a Caribbean Development Plan Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), is calling for a reparations summit involving the governments…
Streamed Live July 6, 2020 — The CARICOM Reparations Commission in partnership with #UWITV presents From Apology To Action: CARICOM’s Call For Reparatory Justice.