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The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates• William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slaveryWilliam Gladstone’s father, John, was an absen…
Charlie Gladstone on why the only way he can live with his family’s dark past is to turn it into something positive• William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slaveryFor Charlie Gladstone, the question is not what sort of…
Descendants of PM, whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations, travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved AfricansThe family of one of Britain’s most famous prime ministers will travel to the Caribbean this week to apologise…
Scientists stunned by unprecedented heat-stress event in the Americas say they can only hope it ‘motivates and unites people’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast…
Legal opinion would put pressure on 10 European countries targeted to engage in reparative justiceCaribbean countries are considering approaching the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) for a legal opinion on demanding compensation from 10 Europe…
Package includes projects to extract minerals, electrify bus fleets and help protect Amazon rainforestEU leaders in Brussels have announced €45bn (£39bn) in investments to Latin America and the Caribbean, some of which will speed the shift to clean ene…
The money that families have sent to their relatives in Cuba for decades is now fueling an explosion of capitalism on the communist island. Businesses that facilitate that flow of cash have created a clever but complex system that is helping Cuban pri…
The former head of Haiti’s provisional electoral council, Pierre-Louis Opont, is the latest victim of the country’s kidnapping scourge, his abduction occurring less than 10 days after his wife, a prominent journalist, was also abducted. Opont, who hea…
Storm approaching eastern Caribbean Leeward and Windward Islands in aggressive weather pattern early in the seasonTropical Storm Bret is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches the eastern Caribbean’s Leeward and Windward islands, with…
In a move underscoring its geopolitical ambitions in the Western Hemisphere, China is going to establish an espionage base in Cuba just 90 miles from Florida, for which the Chinese government will reportedly pay billions of dollars to the cash-strappe…