Jamaica Submits Slavery Reparations Petition to King Charles III

Jamaica takes its case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III - AP News

Jamaica takes its case for reparations for Britain’s role in slavery to King Charles III  AP News

Jamaica to bring slavery reparations petition to King Charles

The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles

Slavery’s legacy continues ‘to deprive our country and our people’, says minister, as group prepares to appeal to Jamaica’s head of state A landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaican over slavery reparations, aiming to confront historical crimes that still disadvantage former British colonies, the Caribbean nation’s culture minister has said. The petition will be lodged with Charles, Jamaica’s head of state, on Monday. Continue reading...

By Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

Jamaica to petition King Charles over slavery reparations

Jamaica will ask King Charles III to refer questions about the legality of slavery and Britain's potential obligation to provide reparations.

Jamaican minister to file slavery reparations petition to King Charles during UK visit

A Jamaican government delegation visiting Britain is set to file a petition addressed to King Charles on Monday, raising the question of slavery reparations, Kingston’s culture ministry said. Culture Minister Olivia Grange will lead the delegation “to advance Jamaica’s push for reparations for the African ancestors who suffered under hundreds of years of enslavement”, the ministry said in a statement. The petition asks the king, who is Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three questions on the...

By Agence France-Presse

Jamaica’s legal approach: Were forced transportation & African enslavement lawful under English law?

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the country’s reparations initiative attempts to shift the debate over British slavery from the terrain of political discretion to that of legal accountability. Rather than beginning with the question of what Britain should pay, Grange insists on a logically prior question: was the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans in Jamaica ever lawfu...

By FRANCE24

Jamaican minister to file slavery reparations petition during UK visit

Jamaican minister to file slavery reparations petition during UK visit

Jamaica steps up slavery reparations campaign with petition to King Charles III

Jamaica is testing a new legal route in its long-running campaign for slavery reparations, asking Britain’s monarch to put key questions before the Privy Council.

By RFI

Jamaican delegation to petition UK's King Charles over slavery reparations

The petition asks the British monarch to refer three questions on the legality of the transatlantic slave trade to Jamaica’s highest court of appeal based in London.

SHAMEFUL

Jamaica’s decision to lodge a petition today with King Charles to seek legal guidance on its slavery reparations claim from Britain has been branded as a disgrace by Pan-African advocate Dr Imani Tafari-Ama. “It is embarrassing. It is so embarrassing,” Tafari-Ama told The Gleaner yesterday. She noted that the Caribbean Community has already established a 10-point reparations plan to facilitate and guide the global African reparations movement.

By Sashana Small/Staff Reporter

Jamaica to bring slavery reparations petition to King Charles

The Jamaican government will hand a petition to King Charles regarding slavery reparations on Monday, the country's culture minister, Olivia Grange, has said.

By Abubakar Ibrahim