Sep 6, 2026 08:28 PM
(This post was last modified: Sep 6, 2026 08:49 PM by C C.)
Self proclaimed do-gooders in the UK (whether Labour or whatever government faction) need to take care of their welfare duties. Don't be like irresponsibly negligent fathers dodging child support after divorce.
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Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...ng-charles
INTRO: A landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaica over slavery reparations, aiming to confront historical crimes that still disadvantage former British colonies, the Caribbean nation’s culture minister has said. The petition will be lodged with Charles, Jamaica’s head of state, on Monday.
“We’re a resilient people. We were able to bounce back from [Hurricane] Melissa, for example,” said Olivia Grange, who arrived in London at the weekend with members of Jamaica’s National Council on Reparations. But we still have a lot of work to do, and you can imagine if we did not have those inherited problems, the legacy that came out of slavery, how much better we would have been able to do so,” she told the Guardian.
First announced in June last year, the petition asks the monarch to use his authority to request legal advice from the judicial committee of the London-based privy council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.
It wants Charles to ask whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful, if it constituted a crime against humanity, and whether Britain is under an obligation to provide restitution to Jamaica for slavery and its enduring consequences.
Grange said that these questions and a privy council response were critical to progressing the country’s reparations claims... (MORE - details)
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Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...ng-charles
INTRO: A landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaica over slavery reparations, aiming to confront historical crimes that still disadvantage former British colonies, the Caribbean nation’s culture minister has said. The petition will be lodged with Charles, Jamaica’s head of state, on Monday.
“We’re a resilient people. We were able to bounce back from [Hurricane] Melissa, for example,” said Olivia Grange, who arrived in London at the weekend with members of Jamaica’s National Council on Reparations. But we still have a lot of work to do, and you can imagine if we did not have those inherited problems, the legacy that came out of slavery, how much better we would have been able to do so,” she told the Guardian.
First announced in June last year, the petition asks the monarch to use his authority to request legal advice from the judicial committee of the London-based privy council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.
It wants Charles to ask whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful, if it constituted a crime against humanity, and whether Britain is under an obligation to provide restitution to Jamaica for slavery and its enduring consequences.
Grange said that these questions and a privy council response were critical to progressing the country’s reparations claims... (MORE - details)