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St Joseph’s Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in the In­ter­na­tion­al Repa­ra­tions De­bate Com­pe­ti­tion, de­feat­ing Claren­don Col­lege of Ja­maica in the fi­nals held on Fri­day at the Cen­tre for Repa­ra­tions Re­search at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Mona Cam­pus. The Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Repa­ra­tions (NCR) ex­tend­ed its heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to the team for their ex­cep­tion­al achieve­ment.

A re­lease stat­ed that the com­pe­ti­tion start­ed on March 17 and fea­tured stu­dents from 24 schools across the re­gion en­gag­ing in live­ly de­bate on mat­ters of Repa­ra­tions for Na­tive Geno­cide and Chat­tel Slav­ery in the Caribbean.

The com­pe­ti­tion was or­gan­ised by the Cen­tre for Repa­ra­tions Re­search in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, UWI TV, The Re­pair Cam­paign, The PJ Pat­ter­son In­sti­tute For African-Caribbean Pub­lic Ad­vo­ca­cy, The Uni­ver­si­ty Of Hull And the Cari­com Repa­ra­tions Com­mis­sion, of which the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Repa­ra­tions is a part. Among the judges was the em­i­nent his­to­ri­an, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus Ru­pert Lewis.