The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) will embark on one month of activities to celebrate Heritage Week 2018 as part of its mandate to preserve Jamaica’s tangible and intangible heritage. Among the planned activities are three (3) public lectures (one in each county), a month-long exhibition/ tour of Headquarters House as well as [...]

  Ministry of Culture, Gender Affairs, Entertainment and Sports 4-6 Trafalgar Road Kingston 5 Jamaica, West Indies Tel: 876-978-7654 Fax: 876-978-7072 ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————–– NEWS RELEASE ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————–– [REPLY OR SUBSEQUENT REFERENCE TO THIS COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE MADE TO THE PERMANENT SECRETARY AND THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE QUOTED: MYC.955] Kingston, September 18, 2018 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, [...]

Port Royal and the 1692 Earthquake As Jamaica's economy grew and changed between 1655 and 1692, Port Royal grew faster than any town founded by the English in the New World, and it became the most economically important English port in the Americas. Piracy and Buccaneering became the centre of Port Royal’s economic livelihood. After [...]

Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Jamaica National Heritage Trust invites expression of interest (EOI) from suitable qualified firms/individual with strong Capabilities, Experience and Qualified personnel in the discipline of Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveyor, Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to procure and install Ventilation and Air Conditioning (VAC) system for the Ward [...]