Overview
- Caribbean leaders completed a three-day CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations in Barbados on Sept. 17–19 and agreed to push reparations onto the agenda at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua in November.
- Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley convened the conference and appointed a technical committee to assemble economic evidence intended to support legal claims and negotiations.
- CARICOM has revised its Ten-Point Plan to seek monetary payments, debt relief, and non-monetary remedies such as health and education programs as forms of redress.
- Advisers and officials are actively weighing legal routes including a state complaint at the International Court of Justice, referrals to the UK’s Privy Council, and claims under UN racial-discrimination treaties.
- The UK has formally rejected paying reparations, so the campaign now aims to use multilateral forums and legal mechanisms to force negotiation or secure authoritative rulings, though no binding international decision has yet been issued.