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As reparations debate grows, Caribbean campaigners point to one British family's example
The Trevelyan fund has helped more than 50 students, as campaigners press Britain and other former colonial powers to consider broader redress.
- Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda this week for a summit expected to be dominated by debate over slavery and reparatory justice, with Caribbean governments pressing former colonial powers to engage more directly.
- In 2023, British journalist Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grenada to apologize for her family's colonial role, pledging £100,000 for education, which Caribbean advocates now cite as a potential model.
- The Trevelyan fund has helped more than 50 students through bursaries, prompting Nicole Philip, vice-chair of Grenada's National Reparations Committee, to ask: "If a family can come forward, apologise, and make reparations payments, why not the British government?"
- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham wrote in Saturday's Guardian he is open to a formal apology but rejected liability for historical wrongs, proposing instead a "new drive on debt" to help vulnerable countries.
- King Charles is expected to make a speech on Tuesday, while Trevelyan urged leaders to move beyond acknowledgment toward addressing the "legacies of the present.
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As reparations debate grows, Caribbean campaigners point to one British family's example
When British journalist Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grenada in 2023 to apologise for her family's role in colonial slavery and pledge £100,000 ($134,000) towards education, Caribbean reparations advocates saw more than an act of contrition.
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