Usually at this time of the year, international legislators and high flyers at umbrella organizations such as the European Union, its Parliament and even the Caribbean Community Secretariat take an extended break from the daily grind of trade negotiations and global conferences to refocus on the main issues in the fall. So it is usually a struggle to get key players on various issues to pay attention to causes such as efforts by the Caribbean trade bloc to win reparations from European nations for the part they played in enslaving millions of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade.
But in the past week, the regional head of the Caribbean Reparations Commission and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad worked to ensure that the issue remained on the front burner. Both capitalized on annual slavery emancipation celebrations across the region to keep the reparations battle in the headlines.
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