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Caribbean children are to be trained as "reparations activists" so they can campaign for handouts from British taxpayers for decades to come.

Caribbean states are exploring plans to haul Britain before an international court in a bid to force the UK to pay slavery reparations.

Slavery reparations campaigners are pushing the British Museum to hand back Caribbean artefacts as Jamaica steps up its demands for compensation from Britain.

Thousands of revellers have taken to the streets in colourful costumes for the final day of Notting Hill Carnival.

A “brave” 16-year-old British cheerleader has died after a horror boat accident while holidaying with her family.

A Scottish man has been discovered shot dead on a luxurious Caribbean island.

The US military has struck a vessel in the Caribbean, killing two people, alleging that the vessel was operated by "designated terrorist organisations" that it did not identify.

The Caribbean has long been a pivotal node in the global drug trade, acting as a stepping stone for South American cocaine destined for consumers in Europe and the United States.

Two men planned to invade a Caribbean island to take sex slaves and live out their violent ’rape fantasies’, prosecutors have said.

The United States’ flagship aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean, as Donald Trump continues to amass military firepower close to Venezuela.

The US Navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

US forces struck two more suspected drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, resulting in the deaths of six people, as announced by the Trump administration’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a powerful category 4 hurricane on Sunday, threatening days of catastrophic winds and rain in the northern Caribbean, while Jamaica’s government ordered mandatory evacuations for vulnerable areas across the country including in the capital, Kingston.

Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has angered Washington after accusing the US of killing Colombian citizens during a recent boat strike in the Caribbean Sea.

Venezuela says it has launched three days of large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean after several U.S. attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats.

A finance manager stole more than £200,000 from a music technology company to give himself a pay rise and fund a holiday to the Caribbean.

The 35-year-old man reportedly stabbed his 28-year-old female colleague multiple times before jumping off the Icon of the Seas cruise ship, according to officials

A British teacher was taken hostage in the Caribbean and only managed to escape after jumping out of his kidnapper’s car boot.

A 73-year-old British woman has passed away in a jet ski accident while on vacation in the Bahamas.

A tourist is thought to have lost both her hands in a shark attack after trying to ‘engage’ with the animal for a photo.

To celebrate, Rudiger Koch toasted with champagne and smoked a cigar before leaping into the Caribbean Sea

The foreign minister of the Bahamas has suggested Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy will ‘come around’ to offering reparations for the impact of the slave trade.

The Caribbean, historically a key region for drug trafficking, has once again become the center of attention with the seizure of a narco-submarine, signaling the use of these types of vessels is potentially becoming a more common tactic for drug shipments in this smuggling route.

The billionaire Virgin tycoon also officiated the wedding and gave a speech where he touched on Sir Alan’s long campaign for justice on behalf of hundreds of subpostmasters.