May 17, 2007 Dear Colleagues, It is hard to believe that the New Year is already one month gone and that IACA 2007 is just - as they say - around the corner. Let me begin by wishing each and everyone a pleasant, successful and blessed 2007 and I am hoping that it is already [...]

September 12, 2006 Welcome to this the first in a series of bulletins on the IACA 2007 conference to be held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 23-27, 2007. This is but one of several methods that the planning committee will use to keep you informed of the happenings as they relate to the conference. Please [...]

Hon. Aloun Ndombet Assamba Minister of Tourism, Entertainment & Culture Conventional wisdom allows that man has but one moment in time. It is therefore comforting that the trade of archaeology flies in the face of convention to bridge gaps in time, allowing us the best of both past and present, withe even eyes on future [...]

The I.A.C.A. is a group of professional and amateur archaeologists and interested individuals from the Caribbean and overseas who work, or have an interest, in the archaeology of the Caribbean. Our area includes not only the Greater and Lesser Antilles but countries bordering the Caribbean, whose prehistoric and historic cultures often interrelate with those of [...]

Jamaica, a small island state of some 4400 sq. miles, is nevertheless blessed with an abundant and diverse natural environment ideal for the support of life forms including man. The island also stands at the cross roads of air and sea currents between Europe, Africa and Central and South America. As a result the island [...]

By June next year there should be a monument in the National Heroes Park in honour of the late Prime Minister the Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer. The Jamaica National Heritage Trust has announced that a design for the monument has been chosen following the meeting of a special committee that was established to examine [...]

Membership is open to all interested parties. Dues are US$20 per annum payable to the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. A cheque or money order in any major currency should be sent to: Gerard Richard, Chef du Service Archéologique du Conseil Regional, Impasse Majoute, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 97100, F.W.I. Email: g.richard@cr-guadeloupe.fr OR gerardrichard20032003@yahoo.fr

The book "Jamaica's Heritage an Untapped Resource" outlines the rich heritage of Jamaica that can be explored. This book, edited by Marguerite Curtin and published by the Mill Press, won the UNESCO Award at the 1993 Leipzig Book Fair. It is a challenge to our organization to preserve, promote, explore, and market our heritage in [...]

(A NEW law in 1985 changed the name of the Jamaica National Trust Commission to the Jamaica National Heritage Trust and enlarged its functions. Pansy Hart, an employee of the old Commission of many years, gives an overview of the organisation out of which the JNHT arose.) It was early in the 1900s that the [...]

As we look to a new century and a new millenium, it is extremely fitting that the Jamaica National Heritage Trust is taking the bold step of establishing this website. Now we are under the microscope of the world for all to see how well we are carrying out the mandate to preserve, protect, maintain [...]