Jamaica could seek slavery reparations from Britain

By Arthur Parashar Published: 16:00 EST, 25 February 2024 | Updated: 18:24 EST, 25 February 2024 Jamaica is understood to be mulling over plans to demand £500,000 payments from Britain in slavery reparations to fund its ‘dark tourism’ heritage sector. The Caribbean island, which is ruled by anti-royalist Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is said to be seeking funding from the UK Government and major museums to fund exhibitions about colonialism. Jamaica, which was under British rule until it became independent in 1962, may seek reparation payments of around half a million pounds for the centuries of slavery suffered.  The payments would go to conserving ports, hospitals and courthouses which are linked to imperialism, The Telegraph reports. The newspaper previously reported that Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s tourism minister, wanted to preserve Georgian sites such as the former homes of slave owners for ‘dark tourism’. ‘We are interested in what is called ‘dark tourism’, he said. ‘The built heritage is very, very important, because it tells a story in stone and sticks and mortar. ‘Jamaica, being a confluence of so many cultures and peoples, has a story that you need to connect with, because a little piece [of the British] is really here,...