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In relation to the
historical and cultural sites
within the area, the Ministry with
responsibility for culture and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust have advised
that sufficient safeguards exist under the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act to
protect the cultural and historical sites and artefacts in the area.
(See Slide Map 6 – Historical and Cultural Sites).
Mr. Speaker, we have gone further to request the portfolio Ministry with
responsibility for culture to fast track the identification of other important
cultural/historical sites and artefacts in the area with a view to protecting them
under the law. In addition, the Ministry has been asked to seek the nomination
of the Cockpit Country Protected Area as a World Heritage site under UNESCO.
Mr. Speaker, we are therefore protecting the “Core Cockpit” i.e. the areas that
have not been degraded and occupied by irreversible human activities as well
as the forests flora and fauna that subsists on the core and contiguous or
surround the