Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew renewed global calls for reparations for slavery and colonial injustice during his address to the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking with conviction, Dr. Drew condemned the historical wrong in which enslavers, rather than the enslaved, were compensated at the abolition of slavery. “It remains one of history’s most grotesque inversions of justice. Those who profited from human bondage were rewarded, while the descendants of the enslaved were left with generational trauma and systemic inequities,” he declared.
He insisted that reparatory justice is not about revisiting the past but about correcting ongoing economic and social imbalances rooted in that history. “Reparations are about restoring dignity, equity, and opportunity to those who continue to carry the burden of an injustice centuries old. The Caribbean cannot and will not be silent on this moral imperative,” he added.
Dr. Drew urged the international community to treat reparatory justice as central to global fairness and development, framing it as a test of humanity’s commitment to righting historical wrongs.
Even as Dr. Drew spoke on reparatory justice at the United Nations, St. Kitts and Nevis has already taken concrete steps to translate moral conviction into action. Earlier in 2025, the Federation deepened its collaboration with The Repair Campaign — an international reparations advocacy initiative — through formal dialogues and engagements with the National Reparations Committee.That move has amplified the local struggle onto a global stage, helping connect voices in the Caribbean with reparations discourse in Europe and beyond.
Closer to home, the National Reparations Committee has shifted from purely symbolic demands to tangible negotiation strategies. It has publicly targeted the British firm Greene King for its historical links to slavery and compensation payments to plantation owners, asserting the company benefited directly from the slave economy in St. Kitts and should now face accountability. This approach indicates that the Federation is seeking not only acknowledgment but reparative redress.
These developments show that St. Kitts and Nevis is not waiting for external recognition alone — it is already pushing institutional mechanisms, partnerships, and reparation claims forward, giving life and momentum to the principle Dr. Drew raised: correcting a moral inversion, restoring dignity, equity, and justice.
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