A four-member delegation from Antigua and Barbuda is currently in Barbados participating in the Third CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations, being held from September 17–19, 2026, under the theme “Reparatory Justice as the Coming Enlightenment.”
The delegation comprises Ambassador Dorbrene O’Marde, Ambassador Anthony Liverpool, Senator Angelica O’Donoghue and Dr. Lenworth Johnson.
The delegation attended Thursday evening’s Opening Ceremony, which featured addresses from CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Barnett, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, His Highness Papa Paul Jones Eganda, among an esteemed line-up of regional and international speakers.
Over the course of the conference, members of the Antigua and Barbuda delegation will participate in several high-level sessions alongside members of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Reparations, Heads of Government and representatives of CARICOM, the African Union, national reparations commissions, civil society and the global African diaspora.
Ambassador Dorbrene O’Marde, Chair of the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission (ABRSC) and Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), will moderate the session “The Global Architecture of Reparatory Justice: Leveraging International Institutions, Frameworks and Agreements.”
Dr. Lenworth Johnson will be featured on the panel “Pathways to Historical Accountability and Redress: Legal, Economic and Environmental Justice,” while Senator Angelica O’Donoghue is serving as a Conference Rapporteur and will contribute to the presentation of the Rapporteur’s Report and Summary of Main Recommendations.
Ambassador Anthony Liverpool said the conference provides an important opportunity for reparations movements, particularly across the Caribbean, to strengthen coordination and build international partnerships.
“The conference provides an opportunity for reparations movements, particularly in the Caribbean, to come together to strategize and synthesize our efforts towards reparatory justice. It also provides an important opportunity for networking and deeper collaboration with other national commissions, civil society, the diaspora and the African Union,” Ambassador Liverpool said.
The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission serves as the country’s national reparations commission and forms part of the wider regional reparations’ movement coordinated through the CARICOM Reparations Commission.
The Third CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations is the first major Caribbean forum dedicated to reparatory justice in more than a decade. It is intended to consolidate the vision of the revised CARICOM Ten-Point Plan for Reparatory Justice: A Manifesto for the Coming Enlightenment and advance practical approaches to implementing the region’s reparatory justice agenda.
The conference also follows the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on March 25, 2026, of landmark Resolution A/RES/80/250, which declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.”
The three-day conference is being hosted in Barbados by the CARICOM Reparations Commission, the Government of Barbados and the CARICOM Secretariat, bringing together regional and international leaders, scholars, advocates and institutions to advance the next phase of the global reparatory justice movement.
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