About Jamaica National Heritage Trust

Our Mission

To inspire a sense of national pride through the promotion, preservation, and development of our material cultural heritage, utilizing a highly motivated and qualified team in conjunction with all our partners.

Our Vision

To be the primary organization that actively promotes and sustains Jamaica's rich heritage.

Our Objectives

To foster a sense of national pride and identity through heritage education.
To identify, research, record, interpret, regulate, protect and preserve the material cultural heritage resources of the Jamaican people.
To promote the sustainable utilization and management of our material cultural heritage resources.

Our Functions

The primary functions of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust are :

To promote the preservation of national monuments and anything designated as protected national heritage for the benefit of the Island;
To conduct such research as it thinks necessary or desirable for the purposes of the performance of its functions under the Jamaica National Heritage Act;
To carry out such development as it considers necessary for the preservation of any national monuments or anything designated as protected national heritage;
To record any precious objects or works of art to be preserved and to identify and record any species of botanical or animal life to be protected.