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Barbados

September 2024

  • A two-storey greybrick college entranceway flanked by bright green grass, palm trees and blue sky

    Anglican group launches £7m project in Barbados to atone for slavery atrocities

    Funds will help communities living on the Codrington estate, which was home to two sugar plantations

July 2024

  • Damaged fishing boats rest on the shore after the passing of Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fish Market, Bridgetown, Barbados on July 1

    Hurricane Beryl strengthens to category 5 storm as it ‘flattens’ island in Grenada

  • Wind passes through palm trees

    ‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Grenada

June 2024

  • man wearing blue shirt walks past planks of wood on a building

    Caribbean prepares as Hurricane Beryl becomes earliest category 4 on record

  • A satellite image of the Atlantic and Caribbean with a circular storm visible.

    Tropical Storm Beryl predicted to turn into first hurricane of season

  • A house built to be dismantled quickly … Under the skin of the ocean, the thing urges us up wild, by Whittle.

    Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn

  • Robert Beckford

    Will the Anglican church come clean and pay its debt over slavery? Not from what we have seen so far

    Robert Beckford

May 2024

  • A view from the classical portico of Codrington College, which was established on the sugar plantation formerly owned by the Church of England’s missionary arm.

    Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

  • Codrington College, an Anglican theological college in St John, Barbados.

    Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy

April 2024

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

    Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax
  • Fishers working with a net

    ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

    Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change
  • Richard Drax standing outdoors on a sunny dayduring a two minute's silence

    Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

    Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

March 2024

  • Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery<br>Undated handout photo of Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon and chairwoman of the oversight group for the investment fund set up to address the Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery. A £100 million investment fund set up to address the Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery is too small and slow, according to a new report which calls for a target of £1 billion. The funding programme was announced in January last year for investment, research and engagement to "address past wrongs". Issue date: Monday March 4, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story RELIGION Slavery. Photo credit should read: Rich Barr/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    ‘It’s not a lot when you consider the harm’: Why bishop is calling for £1bn in C of E reparations for slavery

    Bishop of Croydon Rosemarie Mallett is calling for the Church of England to atone for African chattel slavery

January 2024

  • Three fishermen working on nets on a beautiful sandy beach fringed with palm trees, with small boats pulled on to shore behind them

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Plenty more flying fish in the sea? Tobago’s fears as Bajan boats move in

    As prized shoals of flying fish move away from Barbados and closer to Tobago, decades-old tensions between the islands are growing over fisheries, sustainability and territorial waters

December 2023

  • People relaxing at Accra Beach, Rockley, Barbados.

    The Guardian view on the Caribbean: the island-shaped arguments about historical injustice

  • The US might be the ‘best place to hide and launder ill-gotten gains’, said its treasury secretary, Janet Yellen.

    The Guardian view on a UN treaty: stop rich nations acting like the tax havens they condemn

  • Portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah taken in August 2000

    Benjamin Zephaniah obituary

  • Mia Mottley with King Charles at Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021.

    Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations

October 2023

  • Graham Campbell looking at a book in a library

    World’s first reparatory justice master’s launches in Glasgow and West Indies

    Partnership between Glasgow University and University of the West Indies was established as part of a reparative justice programme

June 2023

  • Simon Tisdall

    Amid the battle of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, a new global order struggles to take shape

    Simon Tisdall
    While the US and China vie for supremacy, smaller countries, championed by Barbados PM Mia Mottley, are speaking out on key challenges of climate, poverty and migration
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