The CARICOM Ten Point Plan for Reparations: A Manifesto for the Coming Enlightenment

Excerpt from Prologue:

The CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Ten Point Plan for Reparations: A Manifesto for the Coming Enlightenment, is a document prepared principally for the governments and people of the Caribbean but conceptualised and designed to facilitate and guide the global African reparations movement. It outlines the development priorities for the Region as it demands reparations from the United Kingdom (UK), Europe and all enslaving nations, for their role in over four hundred years of native genocide, chattel African enslavement and violent extractive colonialism.

The focus is on these Crimes against Humanity and the continuing harms and suffering that remain as legacies of those actions. It recognises native genocide of the Indigenous Peoples, chattel enslavement of Africans and the deceptive indentureship of Asians, as three acts of the same play – criminal, extractive colonisation. The Ten Point Plan is a framework for promoting and demanding reparations and sets out the call for reparatory justice within the context of development priorities. As such, it also serves as a global public mobilization manifesto. It is not meant to determine the details of a negotiating strategy but
rather represents a collective vision for an approach to the pursuit of reparatory justice. It is then a strategic guide and framework and not a fixed reparations plan.