It was the occasion of the Caribbean Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) of April 2018 that forced the UK government to first apologise for the bureaucratic violence inflicted upon those impacted by the scandal. Caribbean High Commissioners, such as the Barbados High Commissioner to the UK Guy Hewitt and the Saint Kitts and Nevis High Commissioner to the UK Kevin Isaac, played a key role in pressuring for justice and advocating for the rights of Caribbean nationals and their descendents living and settled in the United Kingdom.

Notably, the former head of the Barbadian government’s Commission for Pan-African Affairs David Comissiong wrote to CARICOM in protest. On this page, you can listen to the project’s in-depth interviews with Caribbean High Commissioners, government officials and civil registration specialists. This includes an interview with Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, former Jamaican High Commissioner to the UK and Deryck Murray who twice won the Cricket World Cup for Trinidad and Tobago.

Please visit the Interview Keywords section at the bottom of this page for an indexation of all main interview themes.

Caribbean High Commissioner and Government Interview Keywords: Access Jamaica | Aloun Ndombet-Assamba | airport security | Andrew Holness | Andrew Wynter | biometrics | Birmingham | birth certificate |  breeder document | Brexit | British Empire | British High Commission | British High Commissioner |  British Overseas Territory (BOT) | British royal family | bureaucracy | Caribbean Caucus of High Commissioners | Caribbean Community (CARICOM) | Caribbean High Commissioner | Caribbean Tourism Organisation | cashless society | Certificate of No Impediment (CNI) | Certificate of Registration | Charlton McFarlane | children | Citizen of the UK and Colonies (CUKC) | Clarendon | deed poll | diaspora | digital | digital economy |  digitisation | driver’s licence | Duke of Edinburgh Commonwealth Study Conference | Elizabeth Truss | emancipation | enslaved peoples |  e-Passports | fear | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) | Go Home vans | Grierfield Great House | Home Office | hostile environment | human trafficking | ID cards | indefinite leave to remain (ILR) | indentureship | India | Jamaica | Jamaica Tourist Board | Jamaican High Commission | Jamaican High Commissioner | Jamaican independence 1962 | King Charles III | Kingston | leave to remain | legal identity | Margaret Thatcher | Mark Golding | marriage certificates | Minister of Tourism |  Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Moneague | National Document Forensic Lab | National Identification System (NIDS) | notary officials | Ocho Rios | Old Harbour Bay | online applications | Open Arms Development Centre | Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) | P.J. Patterson | passport | Portia Simpson-Miller | private sector | red birth certificate | Registrar General Department (RGD) | renunciation of citizenship | reparations | Saint Ann | Saint Catherine | statelessness | The Legacy Centre of Excellence | tourism | UK-Jamaica relations | United States | unconditional landing | visa | voter registration | Windrush Compensation Scheme | young people |

 ID cards | JAM-DEX | Jamaica | Legacy Centre of Excellence | legal identity | Ministry of Health | National Identification System (NIDS) | online applications | passport | Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) | records | Registrar General Department (RGD) | right to remain | The Legacy Centre of Excellence | vital statistics | voter registration | activism | Anglican church | Barbados | Barbados House of Assembly | Barbados independence 1966 | Barbados-UK relations | Bernie Grant | Bridget Freeman | British royal family | Caribbean Community (CARICOM) | Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) | CARICOM ambassador | CARICOM Prime Ministerial Subcommittee on Reparations | CARICOM Secretary General | Clement Payne Movement | Collis King | Commission for Pan-African Affairs | David Cameron | David Comissiong | enslavement | Errol Walton Barrow | Freundel Stuart | Harvard University | Hilary Beckles | Jeremy Corbyn | Little England | Martin Forde QC | Methodists | Mia Mottley | National Taskforce on Reparations | P.J. Patterson | Pan African Coalition of Organizations | Pan-Africanism | Pan-Caribbean | plantation society | prison | Ralph Gonsalves | reparations | repatriation | Rex Nettleford | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | slavery | Suella Braverman | The Labour Party | Tony Blair | Trevelyan family | Trinidad and Tobago | United Nations World Conference Against Racism | United States | University of Glasgow | Verene Shepherd | Walter Rodney | Wendy Williams Lessons Learned Review | Westminster Council | Windrush Compensation Scheme | World War II | Birmingham | British | British Black Panthers | British citizen of Caribbean origin | British citizens | bureaucracy | Caribbean | Caribbean High Commissioner | CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) | carnival | colony | Commonwealth | corruption | cricket | Darcus Howe | Deryck Murray | diaspora | dual citizenship | Foreign Service | Hull | Jamaica | London | Mangrove Nine | mother country | National Identification System (NIDS) | Notting Hill Carnival | Port of Spain | private sector | Queen’s Royal College | sport | Transparency International | Treaty of Chaguaramas | Trinidad and Tobago | United Nations | visa | Washington | West Indian Student Centre | West Indies Cricket Team | activism | Air Passenger Duty (APD) | Amber Rudd | Amelia Gentleman | Barbados | Barbados High Commission | Barbados High Commissioner | Barbados independence 1966 | British born | British High Commissioner | Caribbean Caucus of High Commissioners | Caribbean High Commissioner | Caroline Nokes | Commission for Racial Equality | Commissioner for Human Rights | Commonwealth | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) | Commonwealth Secretariat | Commonwealth Summit | David Lammy | emancipation | European Commission on Human Rights | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) | Grenfell Fire | guerrilla diplomacy | Guy Hewitt | Home Secretary | hostile environment | Keith Voz | Kevin Isaac | Lord Herman Ouseley | Mia Mottley | mother country | National Day of Shame | National Health Service (NHS) | NGOs | Patrick Vernon | Priti Patel | Runnymede Trust | Saint Kitts and Nevis High Commissioner | slavery | sugar economy | The Conservative Party | The Guardian | The Labour Party | The Voice | Theresa May | tourism | United States | West Indies | winter | Africa | Aloun Ndombet-Assamba | Barbados | Barbados High Commissioner | Basseterre | Belize | Brexit | Caribbean Caucus of High Commissioners | Caribbean Community (CARICOM) | Caribbean High Commissioner | Chair of the Board of the Commonwealth | children | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) | COVID | David Lammy | economic migration programme | Ellison Greenslade | fear | Foreign Secretary | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) | guerrilla diplomacy | Guy Hewitt | Guy Mayers | Haiti | Home Office | indefinite leave to remain (ILR) | Jamaica | Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants | Karen-Mae | Kevin Isaac | leave to remain | legal aid | Lord Ahmed | Lord Herman Ouseley | Mark Brantley | Minister for Caribbean Affairs | mother country | National Windrush Monument | Organization of American States (OAS) | Orville London | Philip Hammond | Runnymede Trust | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Kitts and Nevis High Commissioner | Saint Lucia | Sajid Javid | Small Island Developing States (SIDS) | sugar economy | Theresa May | tourism | UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum | United Nations | Washington | Wendy Williams Lessons Learned Review | Windrush Compensation Scheme | Africa | Air Passenger Duty (APD) | airlines | Aloun Ndombet-Assamba | Amber Rudd | Amelia Gentleman | Andrew Holness | Brexit | Britain | British | British Empire | British High Commissioner | Caribbean | Caribbean Caucus of High Commissioners | Caribbean Community (CARICOM) | Caribbean High Commissioner | children | church | Commonwealth | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) | Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 | deportation | digitisation | dual citizenship | enslaved people | fear | fines | Foreign Affairs | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) | Guy Hewitt | Haiti | HMT Empire Windrush | Home Office | human rights | Jamaica | Jamaica Diaspora Conference | Jamaica-EU relations | Jamaica-UK relations | Jamaican High Commission | Jamaican High Commissioner | Kamina Johnson Smith | Kevin Isaac | King Charles III | Kingston | landing cards | landlords | legal identity | National Identification System (NIDS) | National Windrush Monument | NGOs | P.J. Patterson | pastor | records | remittances | renunciation of citizenship | Sajid Javid | Seth George Ramocan | slavery | Theresa May | transnational | UK-Jamaica relations | United Nations | Wendy Williams Lessons Learned Review | Windrush Compensation Scheme | Windrush Day | World War II