Caribbean countries decide to demand reparations from UK for slave trade

A group of 15 Caribbean governments has unanimously agreed to put slavery reparations on the table at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa on October 21, Report informs via Daily Mail.

It comes after the the Prime Minister of Barbados told the United Nations that reparations for slavery and colonialism should be part of a new 'global reset'.

Mia Mottley, who is leading the demands from the West Indies nations, met the King in London earlier this month for talks in advance of the 56-nation Commonwealth gathering.

Mottley has praised Charles for declaring two years ago that slavery is 'a conversation whose time has come', although Buckingham Palace declined to reveal the contents of their latest 'private discussions.'