£7.5 trillion for slavery
Reparations commission says Ja would be due £2.3 trillion of total for caribbean
BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Slavery
THE National Commission on Reparations (NCR) says Jamaica would be due at least £2.3 trillion (approximately J$416.3 trillion) from any slavery reparations paid by Britain to the region.
This money would be able to pay off Jamaica’s national debt of $2 trillion and set the nation on a new economic path.
The figure was based on the NCR’s calculation of Jamaica’s 30.64 per cent of the £7.5 trillion calculated by British academic theologian, Dr Robert Beckford, as being owed by Britain to its former colonies
Reparations commission says Ja would be due £2.3 trillion of total for caribbean
BY BALFORD HENRY Senior staff reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Slavery
THE National Commission on Reparations (NCR) says Jamaica would be due at least £2.3 trillion (approximately J$416.3 trillion) from any slavery reparations paid by Britain to the region.
This money would be able to pay off Jamaica’s national debt of $2 trillion and set the nation on a new economic path.
The figure was based on the NCR’s calculation of Jamaica’s 30.64 per cent of the £7.5 trillion calculated by British academic theologian, Dr Robert Beckford, as being owed by Britain to its former colonies
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