August 9, 2026: CARICOM or the Caribbean Community has spent this year pressing its case for reparations with real momentum. Every CARICOM member state backed a United Nations resolution in March recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as humanity’s gravest crime. Jamaica’s government has said publicly, repeatedly, that it intends to remove the King as head of state. It is one thing to ask a king to answer for the sins of his ancestors. None of this means CARICOM’s reparations case is wrong, or that the region’s demands on Europe should wait until every member state becomes a republic first.