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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Natricia Duncan in Kingston

UK slavery reparations must be top issue at Commonwealth summit, says former Caribbean leader

Ralph Gonsalves, right, with the Jamaican culture and gender minister, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange.
Ralph Gonsalves, right, with Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, who is leading Jamaica’s reparations movement. Photograph: The Repair Campaign

It is “inconceivable” that reparatory justice from Britain for the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans will not be “front and centre” of the next Commonwealth leaders’ meeting, the former prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has said.

Ralph Gonsalves was in Jamaica to discuss the next steps of the “alive and growing” movement to advocate for reparations for hundreds of years of chattel slavery.

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