Caribbean nations will seek $33 trillion from European governments and an apology for their role in the transatlantic slave trade as part of a new push for reparations.
A bloc of 15 Caribbean nations hopes to begin negotiating with Britain, France, Spain and Denmark over a ten-point plan that would include a formal apology, funding for health and education and the cancellation of debt and direct payments to governments.
Britain owes $19.6 trillion, Spain should pay $6.3 trillion and France owes $6.5 trillion, according to a report produced by an American consulting firm that sought to calculate legal damages for the enslavement of 19 million people over four centuries.
The Emancipation Statue in Barbados, one of 15 nations that are members of Caricom, a political and economic union calling for slavery reparations
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Verene Shepherd, a Jamaican professor of history and vice-chairwoman of the reparations commission for Caricom, a