Point 6 calls for an illiteracy eradication programme, addressing what CARICOM describes as the educational legacy of slavery. Enslaved people were deliberately kept illiterate, and CARICOM argues that this legacy persists in high illiteracy rates in some Caribbean communities today.
Educational cooperation between Britain and Caribbean nations is again entirely feasible and could take many forms: scholarship programmes, teacher training, curriculum development, school building. These are practical things that would help people directly. Whether they should be framed as reparatory justice or simply as development cooperation is partly a political question, but the practical case for educational investment in the Caribbean is strong regardless of the framing.
