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World Service,5 mins

Caribbean leaders push for slavery reparations

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Members of Caricom, the Caribbean’s political and economic body, are meeting on 10 March to co-ordinate their campaign for compensation payments against former slave owning nations. Martyn Day is the British lawyer representing Caricom's claim and Sir Hilary Beckles the chairman of Caricom and a professor of history at the University of the West Indies. What exactly is their claim?

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