Premier Wheatley & Hon Fraser support Jamaica's reparations petition to King Charles III
The petition, according to The Guardian, asks the monarch to use his authority to request legal advice from the judicial committee of the London-based Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.
It wants Charles to ask whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful, if it constituted a crime against humanity, and whether Britain is under an obligation to provide restitution to Jamaica for slavery and its enduring consequences.
Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon Olivia A. Grange, arrived in the United Kingdom on the weekend along with members of Jamaica’s National Council on Reparations.
In an interview with The Guardian, she said Jamaicans are resilient people, citing the country’s ability to bounce back from Hurricane Melisa in 2025; however, she said there is still a lot of work to be done.
“You can imagine if we did not have those inherited problems, the legacy that came out of slavery, how much better we would have been able to do so.”
Jamaica is right- Hon Fraser
Acting Premier Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, that he supports Jamaica’s decision.
“Who among us, including myself, can dare argue or even question Jamaica, the undisputed leader in the Region when it comes to liberation and standing up to the British?”
He said it was 64 years ago that Jamaica was the first in the English-speaking Caribbean to stand up to the British. “[They] got their independence, and here we are still sucking salt. Jamaica is right, and I applaud them for it.”
Hopeful the UK will recognise the necessity of this process- Premier Wheatley
Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) told our news centre, “As a fellow advocate of the reparations movement, I applaud Jamaica's bold step of personally delivering Jamaica's reparations petition to King Charles.”
Reparations, he said, are not simply a matter of money; it is about acknowledging a historic wrong and repairing the relationship between the UK and Jamaica.
“I am hopeful that the UK monarch, government, and people will recognise the necessity of this process of repair and respond favourably,” Premier Wheatley said.
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25 Responses to “Premier Wheatley & Hon Fraser support Jamaica's reparations petition to King Charles III”
We should feel safe demanding our freedom and independence
Slaves were property, ie, chattel property. Slaves could be gifted, provided for favors, beaten and abused, used as collateral, used to pay off debt, sold, murdered, etc. Remember the 1811 murder in the Virgin Islands (British) of Casper by his Master Arthur Hodge for supposedly letting a mango fall to the ground. The brute Arthur Hodge was arrested, charged, tried for murder and found guilty by his fellow white planter jurors and sentenced to death by hanging. It was the only time in the slave world where a slave master was convicted for murdering a slave.
Moreover, the Crown and UK writ large were engaged in a benefited from the fruits of exploited free slave labor. Slave labor pulled the UK and other European countries of deep depression..Slavery and slave labour built the UK’s economy, created special, entitled, hierarchical, upper class, etc societies. Slave owners and descendants and British Society writ large benefitted from slavery and slave labour. However, to this day, neither slaves nor their descendants have received not eben a simple apology or farthing in reparations. Under the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, HM Treasury borrowed £20 Million to compensate slave owners for the lost of their chattel property. The loan was supposedly paid off in 2015.
Jamaica, along with other former British colonies are suffering from the legacies and pathologies of slavery and colonialism. Time for reparative justice.
Look at the BVI's inveterate and impkacable problems - ALL of them persist, and are because the duly elected leaders (that you keep electing and re-electing) routinely lie, cheat, and steal from you, and "they ain't White" my dear readers....
Do the political leaders of the Capitalist nations such as USA & UK not lie?
I am probably missing your point. Beemuda has tons of resentment towards the UK btw.
Since emancipation these islands have made slow but steady progress with the little help provided by the UK whether freely of forced.
I find that reparation claims for the Atlantic Slave Trade makes no sense at this point.
Reparations will never come!
PRINCE GEORGE, might just be the King, in which we may get to see such a robust response!
Please my VI people, do not say it's all in the past! Britain just paid off it's compensatory debt/loan (millions of pounds) in 2015; (to the enslaver on the abolition of slavery because our ancestors were considered lost of property - on the same level as pigs, cows etc).
Please access Youtube BBC with documentaries related to this topic.