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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

King Charles urged ‘as human brother’ to support reparations talks at Caribbean summit

Hilary Beckles, CARICOM Reparations Commission chair, speaks into microphones at a podium
Hilary Beckles gives a speech during a plenary session at the high-level consultative conference on the next steps to the landmark UN resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans on 18 June 2026. Photograph: Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images

The head of the Caribbean’s reparations commission has appealed to King Charles as a “human brother” whose family he said had benefited from slavery to support reparations talks at next month’s Commonwealth leaders meeting in the Caribbean.

Speaking at a press conference before the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) in Antigua and Barbuda next month, Prof Hilary Beckles urged the king to use his influence to advance slavery reparations talks between Britain and the Caribbean.

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