Speaking at an event for foreign correspondents on Tuesday 23rd April, Portugal’s President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, acknowledged that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic chattel slavery and the colonial era, and that there was a need “to see how we can repair this”.

Meanwhile, the return to Jamaica by the University of Glasgow of a 170-year old lizard specimen known as a giant galliwasp opens up an important conversation about other Caribbean artefacts being held abroad that need to be repatriated.