A nomination document has been submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the inscription of Port Royal on the World Heritage List.
Port Royal, a town located at the end of the Palisadoes strip in Kingston and former home to pirates during the 17thCentury, has been on UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List since February 2009.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, said that a nomination dossier has been submitted to UNESCO and the Ministry should receive a response in July.
“We have sent in the dossier for Port Royal to be inscribed and we are in constant dialogue with UNESCO, because it is a process. We should know in July about the designation,” she said.
This follows the inscription of Reggae on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in November 2018, the addition of the Maroon Heritage of Moore Town in 2008, the inscription of the Blue and John Crow Mountains to the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2015, and UNESCO's designation of Kingston as a Cultural Music city.
For inclusion on the World Heritage List, countries are required to submit nomination dossiers on the relevant element for evaluation and examination by a UNESCO committee, which meets to evaluate nominations proposed and to decide whether or not to inscribe them.
Grange said the nomination process for Port Royal will be similar to the one done for the reggae inscription.
“It is the same process that we have to go through with having the designation of Port Royal,” she said, adding that the historical environment in Port Royal, which includes a sunken city and buried artefacts, will receive a designation from UNESCO.
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