CARICOM has been working on reparations for more than a decade.

However, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says the time has come for all countries to band together and state unanimously that a crime has been committed against them.

She says too often people find reasons to call people out on all levels and for all types of behaviour, but they are yet to find the moral courage to state that this grave crime, which persisted for centuries against humanity, ought to be declared so.