St. Kitts and Nevis National Reparation Committee

22/05/2025

I participated in this live Q&A today. If you are interested in the MSc/MA Reparatory Justice degree from University of Glasgow and The University of the West Indies, please view and/or share.

Find out everything you need to know about the Reparatory Justice MSc MA postgraduate degree at the University of Glasgow and the University of the West Indi...

23/08/2024

https://youtu.be/xgUyLz-T_IE?feature=shared

In observance of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, Dr Hilary Brown, Programme Manager, Culture and Community Develo...

26/05/2024

17/04/2024

Presenting at 3rd meeting of the 3rd Session of the Permanent Forum for the People of African Descent on Reparations, Sustainable development and economic justice at Palaid de Nations, Geneva Switzerland.

19/03/2024

Golden Rock Estate on the island of St. Kitts was the location where the act to abolish slavery was proclaimed on August 1st, 1834. The enslaved weren't freed at that time. According to the abolition act passed August 1833 in England and later passed in St. Kitts in July 1834, the enslaved would enter the apprenticeship period. This apprenticeship era lasted 4 years. The Europeans said the enslaved needed time to ease into freedom but this was really to appease the owners of enslaved persons by giving them additional years of free labour as compensation for the loss of their property(the enslaved Africans). In addition to that there was the financial compensation to the enslavers. The owners of Goldenrock compensation package can be seen in the images below. 170 enslaved £2784 8s 4d compensation amount. What does that equate to today. Where are the descendants to the owners today? Source ucl.ac.uk

21/01/2024

Let's trace the money....Over the coming weeks as we do more research the names of Planter families who were compensated for the loss of enslaved Africans at abolition of slavery in 1834 specifically for St. Kitts and Nevis. One of the big names which appears in the UCL database is Wastel Briscoe and John Briscoe. I looked up the name and found the following history of the family. Hope this post will help us identify where the descendants are today so Reparations can be made to the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Hastings was the home of some of the wealthy Brisco family who had houses in Hastings Old Town and at Bohemia and Coghurst for most of the 19th century. It seems that the Briscos came to England...

19/11/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/african-and-caribbean-nations-agree-move-to-seek-reparations-for-slavery

African Union and Caricom members establish global reparations fund and call for formal apologies from European nations

31/10/2023

I think I handled myself reasonably well sitting for my very first time in an interview with a UK based TV channel, Channel 4.Thanks Dr. Verene Shepherd for allowing me the opportunity to represent. The conversation, the advocacy continues.

King Charles has begun his state visit to Kenya with a speech addressing some of the abuses during British Colonial rule - saying that "abhorrent and unjusti...

22/10/2023

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20231022/carla-astaphan-benjamin-greene-and-his-role-slave-trade

The Caribbean, and by extension, the global reparations movement has picked up tremendous steam over the past year. From 2013 when Caribbean leaders made the decision to create the CARICOM Reparations Commission to seek reparatory justice for the...

20/10/2023

https://www.sknis.gov.kn/2023/09/21/caricom-reparations-commission-attributes-recent-progress-to-strategic-partnerships/

Wednesday, 20 September 2023 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown):  Reflecting on ten (10) years of activities aimed at defining a path to