The Caricom Reparations Commission advocacy visit to the UK is historic, as it is the first of what we anticipate will be a series of engagements to raise consciousness and awareness, correct misconceptions about the reparations movement and build strategic partnerships to take this critical agenda to right historical wrongs forward, Dr Hilary Brown, a member of the delegation and Caricom's programme manager of culture and community development, said.
Thousands marched in the Brazilian city of Belem on Saturday, as the UN's COP30 climate conference marks its halfway point. Organizers dubbed the event the "Great People's March." The mass mobilization comes after two Indigenous-led protests that disrupted the climate conference earlier in the week. On Saturday, demonstrators marched 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) through the city. Environmental activists were joined by Indigenous people holding banners, flags, chanting slogans, and blasting music from speakers.
Less than three months ago, Victor Jones was among more than 900 men who received apologies from Florida officials and checks for $21,000 as reparations for the horrific abuse they endured as children at state-run reform schools. On Sept. 30, Jones is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County. He would be the third former student at the notorious reform schools to be executed in little more than a year.
