In the interview with the Guardian, Belize's Briceno also criticized UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's refusal to apologize for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, which enslaved and ...

Prince William and his wife Kate are on a week-long tour of the Caribbean, visiting Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas for a series of engagements to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee ...

Calls for Britain to pay reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade were renewed in Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas during the recent tour of the countries by the Duke and Duchess ...

Logwood was a rare and coveted tree that grew in what is now Belize, and it was valuable as a source of pigments for dyes. As the church’s own website explains: “In 1727, a group of men engaged in the ...

By 1831 – after Britain had become the first European nation to prohibit the slave trade within its Empire in 1807 – there were around 300,000 slaves in Jamaica.

Jamaica and Belize are looking at ditching King Charles III as their head of state and becoming republics, leading politicians from both countries said on Thursday, May 4, ahead of his coronation.

President Obama visited one of Africa's most famous memorials to the slave trade on Thursday, the House of Slaves on Senegal's Goree Island. The official story is that millions of African slaves ...

Britain prohibited trade of slaves in its empire in 1807 but did not formally abolish the practice of slavery until 1834. Seized from Spain by the English in 1655, Jamaica was a British colony ...

Prince William has condemned slavery as “abhorrent” and said “it should never have happened” in a speech in Jamaica on Wednesday night.