Sir Hilary Beckles heads Caricom Reparations Commission

Sir Hilary Beckles (Jamaica Gleaner photo)

Principal of UWI’s Cave Hill Campus Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has been elected as Chairperson of the Caricom Regional Reparations Commission, which is to develop and implement a regional strategy to pursue reparations for native genocide and slavery.

Sir Hilary was elected at the First Regional Conference on Reparations held last month at Kingstown, in St Vincent and the Grenadines, according to a press release from the Caricom Secretariat.

The three-day conference, which started on September 15, followed the decision adopted at the