Jamaica National Heritage Trust Programmes for National Heritage Week 2006
Monday, October 9
Launch of Lectures at Jamaica Conference Centre
Topic: ‘The role of Trade Unions in Nation Building’
Guest Speaker: Senator Dwight Nelson: President, Jamaica Confederation of Trade Union
10:00 a.m.

With the recent instability on the local labour scene, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust feels it is an opportune time to look at the birth of trade unions in Jamaica, the role they play and their contribution to nation building. Members of the public are invited to attend, however,- the main target audience include teachers and students of teachers colleges and secondary schools. The lecture will be repeated in Mandeville and Montego Bay.

Tuesday, October 10
Lecture, Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College
Montego Bay
10:00 a.m.

Wednesday, October 11
Heritage Expo, Seville Heritage Park
10:00 a.m.

This is an annual event at Seville Heritage Park which seeks to promote Jamaica’s heritage through exhibitions, speech, drama, songs, dance and storytelling. Each year, thousands of students across Jamaica flock to the site to learn more about their heritage. There will be effigies of the heroes, a lecture demonstration of the evolution of Jamaican dance, a fashion show that features the different groups of people who make us truly ‘Out of Many One People’ as well as lectures and exhibitions of archaeologists at work. The JNHT is currently hosting a team of students and archaeologist from Simon Fraser University in Canada and the students will see them at work as well as be able to ask them questions about what they have uncovered and its impact.

Thursday, October 12
Lecture, Northern Caribbean University,
Mandeville
10:00 a.m.

The officers of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, throughout the month of October will be going into schools across the island, giving lectures and setting up exhibitions focusing on Jamaica’s heritage, thus promoting the need to preserve or heritage.