Caribbean

Could Guyana’s Exxon ruling scare big oil off risky exploration?

Ruling requiring ‘unlimited guarantee’ from oil firms to cover costs of spills could change offshore drilling throughout region

Amy Westervelt

17, May, 2023 @1:02 PM

Sunak was brutally honest, so let me return the favour: the Commonwealth today is irrelevant | Kenneth Mohammed

As former colonies pay tribute to the unapologetic descendant of their imperial masters, Britain’s refusal to pay reparations for slavery makes a mockery of the coronation

Kenneth Mohammed

02, May, 2023 @7:30 AM

‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs

Members of terrorised Port-au-Prince communities armed with rocks and machetes carry out wave of lynchings

Tom Phillips, and Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince

30, Apr, 2023 @10:15 AM

Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for UK slave trade or to pledge reparations

PM says ‘trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward’ in response to Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Aletha Adu Political correspondent

26, Apr, 2023 @3:35 PM

Laura Trevelyan urges King Charles to apologise for historical links to slave trade

Ex-BBC journalist who made formal apology on behalf of her family to descendants of enslaved also wants UK government to express remorse

Nadeem Badshah

15, Apr, 2023 @7:34 PM

Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals

Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement

Lanre Bakare

01, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM

The Guardian’s slavery links: it’s right to finally confront the wrongs of the past | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the Guardian’s investigation uncovering its founders’ connections with the slave trade

31, Mar, 2023 @5:13 PM

King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt | Barbara Blake-Hannah

Money can only ever begin to make amends, says activist and former broadcaster Barbara Blake-Hannah

Barbara Blake-Hannah

31, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM

Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins

Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

28, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

Listening to the descendants of slaves must be the first step in restorative justice | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Laura Trevelyan, who is trying to make amends for her family’s slave-owning past

27, Mar, 2023 @5:06 PM

Trinidad and Tobago is failing children locked in Syrian camps – it must bring them home | Kenneth Mohammed

During Covid, the Caribbean republic shut its borders, stranding citizens overseas; now it has left children vulnerable to illness, death and IS recruitment