There will be Bob Marley music, a vibrant street parade and many, many hands to shake. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will kick off the first batch of royal tours marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a week-long visit to Jamaica, the Bahamas and Belize next month. The Earl and Countess of Wessex will continue the royal Caribbean charm offensive from April 22-28, with visits to Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, Buckingham Palace announced. Meanwhile

their presence in Jamaica prompted protests, with around a dozen members of Jamaica’s Rastafarian

Haile Selassie’s grandson has bought an Ethiopian shield at an auction to return the artefact to its homeland. The object, made of silver and animal hide, was stolen by British forces at the Battle of Magdala in 1868 and vanished into a private collection before emerging for sale in early 2024. Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie, the descendent of the last Ethiopian emperor, has bought the shield to prevent it from being lost again to a private owner. Advertisement The prince will retur

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have tried out a bobsleigh made for two under the watchful eye of Jamaica’s latest Cool Runnings team. When William clambered into the training sleigh during a visit to Bob Marley’s old Kingston neighbourhood of Trench Town, Kate did not hesitate and jumped in behind him. Chatting to women and men from the bobsleigh team they talked about the popular movie Cool Runnings which immortalised the 1988 Jamaican Winter Olympics team. Kate watches from the sidelines as

Prince William has described his “ profound sorrow ” over “ abhorrent ” slavery amid a second wave of reparations protests during his visit to Jamaica-but stops short of apologising. The monarch addressed the topic while delivering a speech during a state dinner hosted by Patrick Allen, governor general of Jamaica, at King’s House in Kingston on Wednesday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Jamaica on Tuesday to a much-publicised demonstration urging the monarchy to pay reparations for

Former Philadelphia health commissioner Thomas Farley made national headlines in May when he admitted to ordering the cremation and disposal of human remains that belonged to victims of a 1985 police bombing in West Philadelphia years ago, without notifying their surviving family members.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight Farley was asked to resign.... And even though the Philadelphia Inquirer reported afterward that one of Farley’s subordinates had apparently disobeyed his

Opponents of reparations argue, among other things, that contemporary states and institutions should not be held responsible for historical slavery. Even its supporters recognise that establishing an international tribunal for slavery will not be easy.... Unlike the Nuremberg trials, nobody directly involved in transatlantic slavery is alive. Asked about the idea of a tribunal, a spokesperson for the British Foreign Office acknowledged the country's role in transatlantic slavery, but said it ha