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September 30, 2015

Jamaicans Call for Reparations for Slave Trade Ahead of Cameron Visit 
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Jamaicans are calling for Britain to pay billions in reparations for its
role in the transatlantic slave trade, ahead of British Prime Minister
David Cameron's first official trip to the island today. Writing in the
Jamaica Observer, Hilary Beckles, chairman of the Reparations Commission
of the Caribbean Community, called on Cameron to recognize the U.K.'s
"legacies of slavery that continue to derail, undermine and haunt our
best efforts at sustainable economic development and the psychological
and cultural rehabilitation of our people."

 

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