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Ted Hennessey

Jamaican politician: Why not seek reparations if UK paid slave debt until 2015?

Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport (Jess Hurd/PA) - (PA Media)

A Jamaican politician has asked why her country should not seek slavery reparations when Britain was still paying off debt linked to slave-owner compensation just 11 years ago.

A team from the country has travelled to London to file a petition asking the King to refer three questions about transatlantic chattel slavery to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Caribbean island’s highest court of appeal.

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