Exclusive: Why Jamaica Is Filing A Petition For Slavery Reparations With The King Now

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Olivia Grange, Minister for Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport of the Republic of JamaicaOlivia Grange, Minister for Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport of the Republic of Jamaica

The government of Jamaica is filing a petition calling for slavery reparations to coincide with a particularly horrific chapter from the country’s past, a minister told HuffPost UK.

Jamaica’s culture, gender, entertainment and sports minister Olivia Grange is in Britain to ask King Charles, as Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three specific questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

That includes whether the seizure of Africans, their forced transportation to Jamaica and...

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