The Garifuna Heritage Foundation in collaboration with the University of the West Indies Global Campus – SVG will be hosting its Eleventh International Garifuna Conference in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines from March 11th – 13th, 2024.
This Eleventh International Garifuna Conference is intended to further contribute to the development of a Research and Action Project Proposal which will directly engage indigenous communities and others in the Caribbean, including Garifuna communities in Yurumei, Central America, the United States and elsewhere in the structuring, development, promotion and implementation of an Indigenous Peoples Development Plan by 2030.
The First International Conference was held in March 2012 here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and resulted in the Yurumein Declaration which specifically made a call for Reparations for the Garifuna people. CARICOM has since established a Commission to secure Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery.
