The island’s Minister of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport, Olivia Grange, has introduced that Jamaica has been elected to a few vital UNESCO committees, together with the celebrated World Heritage Committee which has the ultimate say on whether or not a property is inscribed on the World Heritage Checklist.
Minister Grange stated it was “vital that Jamaica is on the desk serving to to make the vital choices within the curiosity of the nation and different Small Island Growing States. So we take our election to those committees fairly severely and can work to amplify the voices and issues of states like us.”
Jamaica was considered one of 9 new members elected to the World Heritage Committee on the latest Normal Meeting of the States Events to the World Heritage Conference in Paris, France.
Jamaica’s membership to the Committee will run till 2027. The nation shall be represented by Debra Kay Palmer and Tracy Commock.
It’s Jamaica’s second time period on the World Heritage Committee, having served between 2013 and 2017 when the Blue and John Crow Mountains was inscribed on the World Heritage Checklist. Jamaica is presently within the technique of nominating Port Royal to the Checklist. Jamaica additionally intends to appoint Seville Heritage Park to the Checklist.
Within the meantime, on the UNESCO Normal Convention, Jamaica was elected to 4 12 months phrases on the Intergovernmental Committee for Bodily Training and Sport and the Worldwide Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme.
