Britain's Prince William, Kate Middleton’s Jamaica visit stirs demands for slavery reparations

Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Jamaica on Tuesday as part of a week-long Caribbean tour, hours after activists protested to demand reparations for slavery amid growing scrutiny of the British Empire's colonial legacy.

The Royal couple greeted officials as they disembarked from their plane at Jamaica's Norman Manley International Airport, and a military band played to welcome them.

Dozens of people gathered outside the British High Commission in Kingston, singing traditional Rastafarian songs and holding banners with the phrase "seh yuh sorry" – a local patois phrase that urged Britain to apologize.

Last year, the Jamaican government announced plans to ask Britain for compensation for forcibly transporting an estimated 600,000 Africans to work on sugar cane and banana plantations that created fortunes for British slaveholders.

Prince William and his wife are expected to participate in a "sports activity" and a "cultural activity" during their visit to Jamaica before travelling to the Bahamas.

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