Monday, October 19, 2015
NATIONAL Heroine Queen Nanny of the Maroons will be honoured at a Nanny Day celebration in Moore Town, Portland.
Moore Town, which is the home of the Windward Maroons, is a village in the Blue Mountains.
The annual event, which begins at 10:00 am, will feature cultural performances and drumming by different Maroon groups and a civic ceremony, which begins at 12:00 noon. Speakers will include colonels from Maroon villages and representatives of cultural agencies of the Ministry of Youth and Culture.
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Professor of the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Hubert Devonish, will also give a brief presentation on the languages of the Maroons. Patrons at the event will be able to taste traditional Maroon dishes and local dishes, which will be on sale.
Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons, Wallace Sterling said residents of Moore Town would also be celebrating the recent inscription of Jamaica's Blue and John Crow Mountains on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) Prestigious World Heritage List.
"We are glad and we are thankful that the culture of the Maroons was highlighted and we were included in the presentation to UNESCO and we were able to get this inscription; so this year, at Nanny Day celebration, we want to highlight that," he said.
He noted that the Moore Town community, in collaboration with the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), would be developing several community tourism initiatives, such as Coney watching at nights, butterfly watching, and hikes through trails leading from Moore Town to Nanny Falls. more
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