Tag: slavery
East End woman admits child cruelty
(CNS): Lurline Viola Smith Henry (59) will be sentenced later this month after admitting allegations of child cruelty when she appeared in court Friday. The woman is accused of enslaving a 12-year-old Jamaican boy after she convinced his family to let her bring the child to the Cayman Islands, where she could send him to […]
Family charged in child ‘slavery’ case
(CNS): A 59-year-old woman and her 42-year-old son from East End have been charged with stealing a child and cruelty to a child in relation to accusations they enticed a 12-year-old boy from Jamaica to the Cayman Islands, where he was abused, neglected and enslaved. Lurline Viola Henry Smith and Anthony Ricardo Jackson were arrested […]
Glasgow uni to pay £20M in slave reparations
(CNS): Having received millions of pounds in grants from British slave owners throughout the 19th century, the University of Glasgow has entered into a unique deal with the University of the West Indies to pay £20 million to fund an institution to work on solutions to Caribbean development issues. In a press release about the […]
No apology and no reparations from UK Prime minister
CNS): David Cameron said that the UK government will not be making any reparations for Britain’s role in the historic slave trade and has urged Caribbean countries to “move on”. Speaking during a trade visit to Jamaica this week, the UK prime minister was keen to emphasise the role Britain played in abolition as he […]
No retreat on slavery reparations CARICOM vows
(CNS): The prime minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, who is the chair of the CARICOM sub-committee on reparations, has made it clear that the Caribbean Community “is irrevocably committed” to pursuing restorative justice for the Atlantic Slave trade from the former slave trading nations of Europe. But he also has said the battle will be one of […]
Slavery monument to open at UN HQ
(CNS): A permanent memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade is to be erected in March on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York. The UN initiative to erect the monument, entitled ‘The Ark of No-Return’, was Jamaican-inspired and has been endorsed by CARICOM. The monument, designed by Haitian-American artist, […]
