{"id":3881,"date":"2014-03-10T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T01:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2014-03-10T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T01:25:18","slug":"lawyers-caribbean-adopts-plan-on-seeking-slavery-reparations-apology-from-european-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/10\/lawyers-caribbean-adopts-plan-on-seeking-slavery-reparations-apology-from-european-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers: Caribbean adopts plan on seeking slavery reparations, apology from European nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_121636234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3765\" alt=\"shutterstock_121636234\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_121636234-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_121636234-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_121636234.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent &#8211; Leaders of Caribbean nations have adopted a plan on seeking reparations for what they say are the lingering ill effects of the Atlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>A British law firm hired by the Caribbean Community says the regional leaders have authorized a 10-point plan that would seek a full apology and debt cancellation from former colonizers such as Britain, France and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made Monday at a summit in St. Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>The Leigh Day law firm says the group also wants European help in strengthening cultural, health and educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Martyn Day says the program is, in his words, a &#8220;fair set of demands on the governments whose countries grew rich at the expense of those regions whose human wealth was stolen from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent &#8211; Leaders of Caribbean nations have adopted a plan on seeking reparations for what they say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[895,896],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-caribbean","tag-slavery","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}