The Reconstituted National Committee on Reparations held its media launch at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) on July 8.
On October 3 last year, Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne announced the appointment by Cabinet of a national reparations committee whose chairs will sit on the Caricom Regional Commission on Reparations.
According to the UN, "Victims have a right to reparation.
"Reparations must be adequate, effective, prompt and proportional to the the gravity of the violation and harm suffered."
The UN said slavery is regarded as one of the "darkest chapters of human history," as it lasted over 400 years, with over 15 million men, women and children being victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
Speaking at the launch, director of the Caricom Centre for Reparations Research (CRC), UWI, Mona...
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Author: ENRIQUE RUPERT