Seville Heritage Park

17/04/2024

A beautiful day Seville Heritage Park!

17/08/2021

A pioneer, a publisher, a businessman, a hero, a Jamaican. A man who saw it fit to fight for our people, our nation.
Born on the 17th of August 1887 in the parish of St. Ann, was a man whose given name was Malcus, now Marcus with a vision.
He started as a little lad in the library of his home and from then, became a beacon of hope. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association which catapulted his future in the political arena.
Championing the cause of black people’s rights was the steam that steered his political life. His first attempt was leading a worker’s strike that would secure higher wage payments for those who were in the right.
The Black Star Line, a star indeed, was a steamship cooperation founded in 1919. A part of a bigger picture that was not fiction, was created as a mechanism of inspiration for emancipation - emancipation from tribulation. Tribulations of low wages, unfair treatment, and exploitation.
The UNIA was the largest mass movement in the African American History. An aim to form a universal black confraternity. This movement existed not only in Jamaica, with headquarters known as Liberty Hall(s). It housed meetings and was famous for its cultural arts; the international headquarters called Edelweiss Park.
Garvey knew there was more to life than politics, so he created a centre where black people could frolic; delighting in the performing arts. With the likes of Ranny Williams and all his gimmicks, Liberty Hall became a place for new beginnings. A place where black people were not marginalized or ignored, but where they could feel a part of a bigger whole.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey fought hard until his last breath, for a better tomorrow, for Jamaica’s best. He died in London on the 10th of June 1940, he was only 52. Buried in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic cemetery in Kensal Green, London and was later exhumed to be reinterred in a hero’s tomb.
His body lies today under a star in the gardens of the National Heroes Park. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was officially conferred with the Order of the National Hero in 1969. His legacy, name and sacrifices live on, as Jamaica and the world still celebrate him as the man who propelled the liberation of negroes for a lifetime.

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31/07/2021

Join us for the Virtual Seville Emancipation Jubilee 2021 under the theme: “Spirit Inna We”!!

You won’t want to miss it!! So join us on our social media platforms ( https://www.facebook.com/JNHT1 , https://youtu.be/X4YXscff6TO) as well as PBC Jamaica and TVJ at this year’s Emancipation Jubilee!!

30/07/2020

Seville Emancipation Jubilee: The Virtual Edition “Celebrating Our Roots And Culture ”http://www.jnht.com/news/seville-emancipation-jubilee-the-virtual-edition-celebrating-our-roots-and-culture/

Each year, on July 31st to August Mawnin, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, a statutory agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, hosts the Emancipation Vigil at Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann.  It is done to honour all

04/11/2019

Teachers and students who attended the 23rd staging of the 2019 Heritage Expo at the Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann have hailed the event ... Read More

11/10/2019

05/09/2019

Highlights of Emancipation Jubilee 2019!!

Highlights of Emancipation Jubilee 2019

12/07/2019

Click on the link below to see the 2018 staging of Emancipation Jubilee

https://youtu.be/DNy2RSjRC7E

Highlights of the 2018 staging of Emancipation Jubilee: The Genesis

11/07/2019

Highlights of the 2018 staging of Emancipation Jubilee: The Genesis

03/07/2019

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05/02/2019

25/06/2018

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Powell. Another beautiful wedding @

12/06/2018

@ coming soon in October 2018.

28/05/2018

Planning a wedding? Why not make it Heritage Park.

18/05/2018

The J.A.M.I.N.programme at Seville Heritage Park features grade 10 participants from St. Hilda's High School.

After growing their mangrove seedlings in the classroom for the past 8 months, the students planted them at Seville Heritage Park.

All are made possible courtesy of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation ().

Thanks also to the team from Discover Bay Marine Laboratory (.marinelab.9) for their hard work in making this partnership a success and to St. Hilda's High School for participating.

18/05/2018

Queens High having a wonderful day at Seville Heritage Park

18/05/2018

Run Taino Run Event at Seville Heritage Park

03/08/2017

02/08/2017

17/07/2017

Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival at Seville Heritage Park

17/07/2017

At Seville Heritage Park:

Secretary of State for International Cooperation for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, Fernando García Casas and Ambassador of Spain to Jamaica, H. E. Josep Bosch with his lovely wife, Maria Teresa Gonzalez you Gonzalez do Chaves

14/07/2017

No cost for patrons to attend Emancipation Jubilee

Kingston, July 11, 2017 – Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange says that entry to this year’s Emancipation Jubilee will be free of cost.

The announcement was made at the recent launch of the event at Jewels Paradise Cove in Runaway Bay, St Ann.

The annual Emancipation Jubilee celebration, organised by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust takes place on July 31 at the Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann.

Minister Grange said that Emancipation Jubilee “allows us to celebrate a culture that is distinctly ours – Jamaican, but influenced largely by what is distinctly African – that survived the years of enslavement – a success that we owe to our ancestors who in their own relentless ways ensured that what was culturally endemic to them remained intact in a society that was alien to them.”

“We are happy to say that this year Emancipation Jubilee is free. It won’t cost you a penny,” Minister Grange said.

She explained that tickets will be printed for crowd control purposes.

The event, now in its twentieth year, is being observed under the theme, ‘Jamaica 55, Mek Wi Keep Jubilee Alive!’. It features various presentations of traditional Jamaican culture including Kumina, Johnkoonoo and other folk forms as well as a re-enactment of the reading of the 1838 Emancipation Proclamation granting freedom from slavery to all Jamaicans.

21/06/2017

Did you know that...the Emancipation Jubilee is the coming together of traditional folk forms in honour of our ancestors?

02/06/2017

10/05/2017

Teachers from Brown's Primary School having fun on Teacher's Day at Seville Heritage Park

04/05/2017

Tanio Day 2017: Celebrating Our Heritage - The First Jamaicans

07/04/2017

16/03/2017

16/03/2017

Promoting Mangrove Education and Restoration Project

Photos courtesy of Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation