When West Africans on their way to the New World’s slave markets escaped in 1635, they intermarried with Caribbean islanders to create a new and distinct culture.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

King Charles has spoken frequently and emotively about his abhorrence of the slave trade, including during a visit to Ghana in 2018, when he spoke of the "appalling atrocity of slavery.". He went ...