King Charles heads to Caribbean as calls for slavery reparations grow

Straits Times27 October 2026, 07:05 UTCUnited Kingdom

LONDON, Oct 27 - King Charles heads to the Caribbean this week on a tour which comes against the backdrop of increasingly vocal demands from the region that Britain pays reparations for its role in the slave trade.

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