Here are excerpts from an op-ed (The New York Times) by Laurent Dubois (Duke University) on the legacies of slavery, reparation, compensation, abandoning condescending visions of the Caribbean, and “consigning racial discrimination, exploitation and political exclusion to the past.” Late one afternoon in March, officials unveiled a new monument at …
Different approaches to tallying the harm wrought by slavery produce a vast range of results, Carl Bialik reports for The Wall Street Journal. Fourteen Caribbean nations and a British law firm are trying to find the solution to a puzzle that has eluded many economists, historians and activists: how to …
LONDON — In a 2008 biography he wrote of an antislavery campaigner, Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, described the trade in human beings as an indefensible barbarity, “brutal, mercenary and inhumane from its beginning to its end.” Fourteen Caribbean countries that once sustained that slave economy now want Mr. Hague …
Slavery is alive and thriving, a new report says. But many of the 29 million modern day slaves might challenge your concept of who is a slave. It might be an indebted laborer, a victim of human trafficking, or, in the case of Haiti, the child working in the kitchen. …
Nick Harding worries about the new “linguistic affectation” that England’s young people have adopted—a hybrid of accents incorporating “Jamaican patois, American west coast and London.” He wonders why so many English children are speaking a version of what academics call ‘Multicultural Youth English’, or MYE—a mix of South Londonese and …
Brimstone Hill Cannon in St. Kitts (Thinkstock) The reparations movement in the Caribbean has lessons for blacks in the U.S. All of this activity by CARICOM doesn’t mean that there’s universal support across the Caribbean for reparations. There are plenty of voices against the idea. Before, during and after the …
Judges, Rodney Leon and the “Ark of Return,” the winning design for the Permanent Memorial in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Photo: DPI 23 September 2013 – A Manhattan-based architect of Haitian descent was today announced as the winner of an international competition to …
LAST month Rodney Leon, a Haitian-American architect, won a competition for a memorial to victims of the slave trade. His white marble “Ark of Return”, shaped somewhat like a paper boat, will stand outside the UN headquarters in New York. Inside the building, some Caribbean leaders have used their annual …
Alejandro Perez WE BE CLUBBIN’: Barbarito Torres, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal, and Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club When Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa convened with a group of seasoned Cuban musicians and American guitarist Ry Cooder to record an album of Cuban son music …
Chief Executive Officer of Fly Jamaica, Capt. Ronald Reece The United States Department of Transportation (Dot) has denied requests Caribbean Airlines and Fly Jamaica to fly direct from Georgetown to New York, saying the carriers did not provide compelling evidence that doing so …
