23rd June 2022 — Earlier this morning at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Bureau of the Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) approved an ICH project proposed by the Ministry of Culture of St. Kitts and Nevis to promote the government’s mandate of developing a structured national ICH policy framework.

December 23, 2021 (St. Kitts and Nevis National Commission for UNESCO) – Just before the Christmas recess, St. Kitts and Nevis addressed the sixteenth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on progress being made to implement an ICH policy framework across the Federation.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — The St. Kitts and Nevis Department of Culture will explore additional strategies to preserve and promote the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the Federation when it meets with research and documentation teams on January 27.

The Bureau of the Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage approved at its meeting on 2 October 2018, the International Assistance request submitted by St. Kitts and Nevis to implement the project, “Strengthening Inventory Preparation Capacity for Implementing the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Saint Kitts and Nevis”.