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Jamaica demands an apology and financial compensation for Britain's role in the slave trade. But during a visit to the Caribbean nation, the British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he wanted to concentrate on the future rather than dwell on a painful past. But Verene Sheperd, who chairs Jamaica's National Commission on Reparation, tells Julian Keane that the debt needs to be settled for the healing process on both sides to begin. (Picture: A group of slaves in the 19th century; Credit: Getty Images)