By Kherim Nelson (St.Lucia Times)

“Do you think you will ever get that money?”

It is one of the questions advocates for reparatory justice say they are asked most often. Dr June Soomer, Saint Lucia’s former Ambassador to CARICOM and the OECS, was asked that very question during Monday’s Caribbean Conference on the Manifesto for the Enlightenment of Humanity, Socio-Economic Reparatory Justice, Reporting and Sustainable Development, held as part of the 51st Regular Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government underway in Saint Lucia.