Overview
- The CARICOM Reparations Commission, which began a four-day UK visit on Monday, delivered a detailed manifesto to British parliamentarians and Church of England leaders calling for formal negotiations on reparatory justice.
- The manifesto explicitly foregrounds decolonisation and lists six British overseas territories—Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands—for political return or transfer.
- CARICOM set out a broad reparations package that includes a formal apology, monetary compensation, debt relief, education and health improvements, Indigenous development programs and options for repatriation or resettlement.
- Delegation leaders described meetings with three senior Church of England clerics and MPs as productive but said the UK government has not committed to entering formal negotiations and previously abstained from a March UN resolution on the slave trade.
- Jamaica plans a legal escalation by filing a petition in early September asking King Charles III to refer slavery‑reparations questions to the Privy Council, a move that would shift the dispute into judicial review and raise stakes for future talks.