Caribbean children to be trained as "reparations activists" seeking payouts from Britain

A group of Government-backed experts have now drawn up an "action plan", which includes training children to demand handouts from Britain.

Caribbean nations seeking reparations are urged to create and fund "institutional youth leadership" training to ensure a "succession" of reparation activists lasting generations.

The official draft of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) plan states that nations should "overhaul Caribbean educational curricula to centre and teach of Africa, indigenous, and Caribbean histories; enslavement, resistance, and reparatory justice".

Jamaica’s delegate Laleta Davis Mattis said slavery and reparations should be inserted into maths lessons, with children counting how many Africans were taken by slavers rather than items bought at a shop.

Another delegate suggested a quota of under-35s at future meetings to ensure the movement would continue.

Ralph Gonsalves, the former Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, said because slavery happened over centuries, reparations had to be set over decades.

"We need a concrete, multigenerational plan," he said.

The Prime Minister of Barbados insisted during the conference the Caribbean had "no desire to bankrupt anybody" but had a "desire for justice".

Though the reparations bill could cost the UK as much as £18trillion - six times the country’s GDP.

She also suggested modern technology, including smartphones, could distract young people from reparations and other concerns, creating a sense of "indifference".

The Caribbean has also considered proposals to drop European cultural influences and become more African.

One proposal suggests countries should "reframe" their identity by "stepping away from Western cultural conformity".

Caricom will now explore multiple routes to attain reparations and hope to discuss the issue at with British officials at the upcoming UN General Assembly, set to begin today.

A spokesman for Andy Burnham reiterated the British Government’s long-held position that "the UK does and will not pay reparations" earlier this month.

But Mr Gonsalves claims the UK’s signature on contemporary UN conventions means the country faces a binding legal obligation to cough up "reparative" cash.

He told The Guardian: "The fact is that the consequences of slavery fall squarely under the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which obliges states to help address the consequences of native genocide and slavery."

Jamaica, meanwhile, appealed to the King earlier this month, urging him to refer three specific legal questions to the Privy Council’s Judicial Committee, the supreme appellate court for Commonwealth nations.

The five-judge panel is asked to consider if enslaving Africans in Jamaica was lawful under English law, if it was in violation of international law, and if Britain bears a present-day legal obligation to provide reparations.

Caribbean nations are expected to further pressure the UK on the issue at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda in November in a meeting set to be attended by the King.