Jamaica To Consider More National Heritage Public Holidays

Sources: Jamaica Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (Kingston) and Jamaica public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chairman of the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee, Professor Verene Shepherd, has called for an expansion of the national heritage calendar to embrace all the critical moments in the country's history that have helped to shape the nation. Professor Shepherd stressed that while she was not lobbying for all the above dates to be declared as public holidays, some form of recognition should be given.

Such dates might include the commemoration of the last ship with African slaves to arrive at the Kingston on February 17; the passage of the Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) Abolition Act on March 25; the anniversary of the outbreak Tacky's war on April 8; the trial of Sam Sharpe on April 19; the Frome massacre day on May 2, as well as 5 other less significant dates.