Author: Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

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‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen

As violent spirits are unleashed in Sky’s Possession, observers see confident creatives reclaiming the island’s narratives in a form of ‘cultural reparation’ A woman opens a 300‑year‑old box, unleashing a violent spirit – it is the spirit of colonial…

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Jamaica hails King’s decision to refer slavery reparations petition to privy council as ‘really big deal’

The move comes after Jamaica’s culture minister Olivia Grange travelled to the UK earlier this month to lodge the historic petitionKing Charles has referred a landmark slavery reparations petition from Jamaica to a high-level UK appeals court for legal…

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Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations

Petition to king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state, is formally lodged in landmark visit to UK by officialsA palpable surge of emotion swept through Brixton’s New Park Road Baptist church as the packed congregation rose to sing Bob Marley’s Redempti…

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Jamaican delegates arrive in UK to hand slavery reparations petition to King Charles

Slavery’s legacy continues ‘to deprive our country and our people’, says minister, as group prepares to appeal to Jamaica’s head of stateA landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaica over slavery reparations, aiming to confront histori…

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