Caricom has presented a plan for Britain to give up its territories, including Bermuda, as part of a raft of reparation proposals.

The key suggestion is featured in a policy statement being promoted in London by a 15-member Caribbean Community delegation, an article in The Telegraph said.

It was reported that the proposals, which feature in The Caricom Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice: A Manifesto for the Coming Enlightenment, were shared with MPs at Westminster this week.

In the document, dated June 2026, the Caricom Reparations Committee said that colonised territories are economically constrained by imposed constitutional arrangements.

It stated: “Structural economic decolonisation and political autonomy should be based upon and infused with the principle and praxis of reparative justice.”

The manifesto notes that in some Caribbean territories, such as those where Britain has sovereignty, including the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Turks & Caicos Islands, “the colonial system is still hegemonic”.

It said: “Residents of these territories live as second-class inhabitants. They have a legitimate claim to nationhood and freedom.

“Colonisers oppose their claims, and suppress movements and mentalities that idealise national sovereignty.”

The manifesto states that the Caribbean “remains the most colonised part of the postmodern world with seventeen islands still without sovereignty.”

“The demand to the European and American nations that maintain these colonies is to listen to the calls of the African-descended and Indigenous populations of those colonies for independence, self-determination and reparations,” it said.

“Reparations and decolonisation are bound by the hip of justice,” the document added.

According to Caricom, the manifesto was prepared principally for the governments and people of the Caribbean but conceptualised and designed to facilitate and guide the global African reparations movement.

The revised 56-page document — which was first crafted by the Caribbean regional body in 2014 — lists the ten proposals in detail.

The original plan, which has been rebuffed by successive UK governments, called for measures ranging from a formal apology to debt cancellation, TheTelegraph reported.

Sir Hilary Beckles, who chairs the CRC, told the British-based media outlet: “We are still here, from being the first part of the world to be colonised.

“The world has been maybe 90 per cent decolonised. But the Caribbean remains the most colonised part of the world, and this has to stop.”

He called on King Charles III to support decolonisation to “break the chains of imperial governance”.

Sir Hilary, a social and economic historian and vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies, added: “We cannot abide the fact that maybe 20 per cent of the population in the Caribbean are still living in colonies.”

TheGuardian reported that in a message to the UN, Sir Hilary said a resurgence of colonisation could occur elsewhere “if we do not bring it into the framework of reparatory justice”.

He added: “And we’re beginning to see signs of that. People sending their armies and so on into other people’s territories and taking control.

“We begin to see how power can lead to a resurgence of colonisation.”

Sir Hilary said: “We object to the fact that when we leave our independent islands and we arrive in Martinique, there’s a sign at the airport that says, ‘Welcome to France’.”

Caricom said the manifesto was revised with the intention of promoting the document’s global reach and solidarity.

It added: “Greater focus is directed at critical issues such as gender dimensions, Africa-diaspora engagement and the call for climate justice.

“The narratives outlining the various demands for reparatory justice have also been reimagined within the changing global geopolitics context and expanded to reflect new and evolving historical and scientific evidence.”

Questions about the manifesto and its position were put to the Bermuda Government this morning. A response is expected.

The Government is preparing a White Paper on the possibility of full membership of Caricom, of which Bermuda has been an associate member since 2003.

Alexa Lightbourne, the Minister of Home Affairs, told the House of Assembly in March that a Green Paper on the topic published that day examined how the island could move from “the margins of regional decision making to its centre”.

She said then: “We are in the room but not at the table. We participate but we do not decide.”