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There is strong regional backing for Jamaica’s move to submit a formal petition to King Charles III seeking a landmark ruling from the Privy Council on the legality of slavery and Britain’s obligation to provide reparations.
Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chair of CARICOM, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure, during the closing press conference of the 49th Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James on Tuesday (July 8).
Dr. Holness said that the petition will seek a legal ruling on whether the Atlantic enslavement of Africans was lawful under common law, whether local laws supporting it were invalid, and whether slavery, as practised in Jamaica up to 1838, constituted a crime against humanity under international law.