<p>The move comes after Jamaica’s culture minister Olivia Grange travelled to the UK earlier this month to lodge the historic petition</p><p>King Charles has referred a landmark slavery reparations petition from Jamaica to a high-level UK appeals court for legal advice, Jamaica’s culture minister announced in parliament on Tuesday.</p><p>Referring to the move as a “really big deal”, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/09/jamaica-slavery-reparations-king-charles">Olivia Grange</a>