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JAMAICANS CALL FOR REPARATIONS AS BRITISH ROYAL COUPLE ARRIVES

Jamaican leaders demand apology and slavery reparations as Prince William and
Kate visit as part of Caribbean tour.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are on a tour of the Caribbean that coincides
with the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II [Toby
Melville/Reuters]
Published On 22 Mar 202222 Mar 2022
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Jamaican activists, as well as prominent professors, politicians and other
leaders, have rejected a visit by the duke and duchess of Cambridge, calling on
the United Kingdom to apologise and pay reparations for hundreds of years of
slavery.

Britain’s Prince William – the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II – and his wife
Kate landed in the capital Kingston on Tuesday afternoon as part of a wider,
week-long Caribbean tour.


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The royal couple’s trip coincides with the 60th anniversary of Jamaica’s
independence and the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
It also comes at a time of growing scrutiny of colonial-era British conduct in
the Caribbean and elsewhere.

In an open letter published on the weekend, 100 Jamaican leaders said they saw
“no reason to celebrate” the Queen’s coronation “because her leadership, and
that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in
the history of humankind”.






“During her 70 years on the throne, your grandmother has done nothing to redress
and atone for the suffering of our ancestors that took place during her reign
and/or during the entire period of British trafficking of Africans, enslavement,
indentureship and colonialization,” the letter read.

Dozens of people also gathered on Tuesday outside the British High Commission in
Kingston, singing traditional Rastafarian songs and holding banners with the
phrase “seh yuh sorry” – a local patois phrase urging Britain to apologise.

“I am a descendant of great African ancestors, I owe it to them to be here,”
customer service worker Hujae Hutchinson, 27, said at the rally, where activists
read out 60 reasons for reparations.

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“I want to make the British crown recognise that they have committed a great
crime against the African people and that they must apologise and give back what
they have taken from the ancestors.”



The royal couple’s visit to Jamaica comes just months after Barbados in November
officially became a republic, replacing the British monarch as its head of state
and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first
English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.



While the country remains a republic within the Commonwealth, experts said its
decision to break ties with the Queen could fuel republicanism in other
countries, especially in Jamaica, where the two main political parties support
breaking away from the monarchy completely.

Hundreds of thousands of enslaved African people toiled in Jamaica under more
than 300 years of British rule and faced brutal conditions.



There were numerous bloody rebellions, with one woman called “Queen Nanny”
leading a group of formerly enslaved Africans known as Jamaican Maroons, whose
tactics became renowned and battered British forces. “Queen Nanny” remains the
sole woman of Jamaica’s eight national heroes.

In their letter on Sunday, the Jamaican leaders said they would be celebrating
60 years of freedom from the United Kingdom – but stressed that an apology was
“necessary to begin a process of healing, forgiveness, reconciliation and
compensation”.

Jamaica lawmaker Mike Henry, who has long led an effort to obtain reparations,
also told The Associated Press news agency that an apology is only the first
step for what he described as “abuse of human life and labour”.

“An apology really admits that there is some guilt,” he said.

Protesters gathered in Kingston to demand that the UK pay reparations for
centuries of slavery [Kate Chappell/Reuters]


Prince William and Kate first visited Belize during the weekend, and after two
days in Jamaica they will travel to the Bahamas.

Even before the pair left the UK, a protest by a few dozen villagers at a
planned Belize tour stop prompted organisers to change Sunday’s itinerary in the
country, known until 1973 as British Honduras.

On Monday, they visited a British military training camp in the Chiquibul Forest
Reserve in central Belize, and Prince William later pointed out that the country
had joined others in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“Today, we think of those struggling in Ukraine and we stand with them in
solidarity,” he said during a formal dinner on the grounds of the Cahal Pech
Archaeological Reserve with Belize’s prime minister.

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