Caribbean Leaders Push for Slavery Reparations and End to Colonial Territories

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Key Facts

—Unified Manifesto A strengthened 2026 manifesto updates the CARICOM Ten Point Plan, adding stronger legal arguments for monetary compensation from European nations, monarchies, and institutions that benefited from slavery.

—Decolonization Demand For the first time, CARICOM has formally inserted decolonization as a key demand, calling for the return of remaining British, French, Dutch, and U.S. territories to local self-determination.

—Financial and Non-Monetary Claims Demands extend beyond monetary payments to include a Global Reparations Fund, formal apologies, technology transfer, public health investment, and debt cancellation to address ‘fiscal entrapment.’