The Masters students at UTECH Caribbean School of Architecture studied St Ann’s Bay this year...I managed to see parts of their work ... I think 3 of the 4 final year ones are doing thesis projects based in St Ann’s Bay

If it is indeed Garvey country then it must reclaim his house ..there needs to be a Place where all things Marcus should be ...

Reach out to this dewaynewebb@gmail.com 533.9752 Duane Webb thesis student .. he doing a ‘viewing place’ to do with film... I think a Garvey swing could help him and the town

"Restoring St. Ann's Bay" Facebook Group

GROUP PURPOSE St. Ann's Bay is central to the history of Jamaica. It is a mile or so from Sevilla Nueva, the first Spanish capital, built c. 1500. It had handsome British Colonial (mostly 19th cent.) buildings that have not been preserved. It has come upon hard times economically. A promising sign is a planned new Marcus Garvey center focusing on the childhood of Jamaica's first national hero, who was born and raised there.

The hope for this group is to focus on the central town of St. Ann's Bay, with readers contributing memories, thoughts, anecdotes, photos, etc.. It would be welcome to hear about people who live or lived there, including seeing photos of them and/or their homes. A major purpose of the group is to share ideas on how to preserve what is left of the town's colonial heritage.

(Note: The above reflects an attempt to cater to the interests of my co-administrator at the time, a lovely man who had different views from mine and has since taken a leave. My interest is preservation and planning.)

GARVEY- Garvey Center (Jamaica Ntl Heritage Trust is in charge of project. No progress or vision information avilable)

- My connection to Garvey--my grandfather, Alfred Burrowes, was his apprentice master in printing, his godfather, his mentor and his lifelong friend.

- Printery Image

- Marcus Garvey Technical High School (FB message sent to Principal, no reply)

- Preserving what we can of the SAB that Garvey knew

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES & THREATS

Local Tourism

Prospects for Roadside tourism

Painting buildings

Color coordination

Cleaning streets

Vendor disorder

Cement Houses that erase historic cghharacter

Lack of education

Rumors of hotel plans but no transparency about it

GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE

No consensus on what is SAB

SAB not listed on latest regional tourist map

Complete eclipse by Ocho Rios, which also has a confusing identity boundary. Much of the public consider its borders as stretchinng east to the border of St. mary and west to Duncans.

St ANN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Dennis Higgins- Chairman
St. Ann Heritage Foundation
15 Main Street 
St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann 
Phone: 972-2138 
Phone: 384-2692

dennishiggins596@yahoo.com

Mr. Higgins has done a lot of work with Seville Restoration and Seville appears to be his main focus (unlike those of Restoring SAB)

He seems to have had a program of Walking Tours of SAB that involved the Georgian Society of Jamaica

https://ayooutloud.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/the-st-anns-bay-walking-tour/

RESTORATION/PRESERVATION

6 Bravo

The Blue Bowl

Burrowes Prinery

Several Georgian ruins, large and small

PLANNING ISSUES

Trouble figuring out the government structure

Who issues permits

any effort for preservation

Need for photo documentation odff all streets with OLd Town (Police Station to Hospital)