Jamaica’s Blue and John Crow Mountains Now A Part of World Heritage List

Jamaica’s Blue and John Crow Mountains were yesterday made a part of the world heritage list of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Wonderful and historic is this move as it places those mountains alongside a list of truly iconic sites such as the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt among others.

This is Jamaica’s first world heritage site and the first mixed – cultural and natural – site for the Caribbean sub-region.

World heritage status is given to natural and cultural sites across the globe considered to be of outstanding universal value, meaning sites which possess cultural and natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and are of common importance for present and future generations.

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