The notion of forcing the countries that benefited from slavery to pay reparations has been a decades-long quest. Individual countries including Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda already had existing national commissions. Earlier this month, leaders from the 14 Caricom nations voted unanimously at a meeting in Trinidad to wage a joint campaign that those involved say would be more ambitious than any previous effort. huffingtonpost/2013/07/25/slavery-reparations-caribbean-nations_n_3654231.html
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:13:13 +0000