The UWI’s efforts to encourage reparations for slavery were the subject of a July 2023 cover of TIME magazine, which featured an article entitled “Slavery Reparations are Coming”. The article foregrounds the epicentre roles of Barbados, The UWI and its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.

This coverage bears witness that the world is on the cusp of a major structural transition driven by reparatory justice, an inspired development jointly effected by the Caribbean’s only indigenous, world- ranked university and its CARICOM partners.