Caribbean seeks slavery reparations from colonial powers

Leaders of Caribbean nations have adopted a plan on seeking reparations for what they say are the lingering ill-effects of the Atlantic slave trade.

A British law firm hired by the Caribbean Community said the regional leaders have authorised a 10-point plan that would seek a full apology and debt cancellation from former colonisers such as Britain, France and the Netherlands.

The decision was made at a summit in St Vincent.

The Leigh Day law firm says the group also wants European help in strengthening cultural, health and educational institutions.

Lawyer Martyn Day says the programme is a “fair set of demands on the governments whose countries grew rich at the expense of those regions whose human wealth was stolen from them”.