Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad state. You've left them with terrible developmental challenges, and we believe you have a responsibility to… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts. — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket. — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before. — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
