Royal Gazette: Charities call for plan to guide heritage in St George
Conservation charities have called for a co-ordinated approach to protect and highlight St George’s as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Charlotte Andrews, the head of cultural heritage at the Bermuda National Trust, said there was a need for high level leadership and management to safeguard the site, not only for visitors but for the island.
She said: “We are unique. We can show the world and Unesco as an oversight body how we can make a quantum leap in management of the site but we cannot waste time.
“We are 25 years in and it is time to get the infrastructure, the management plan, the co-ordinator, the co-ordinating capacity, the funding. It is time to get all of that in place.”
Alison Outerbridge, the St George’s Foundation manager, added: “We are looking for leadership, collaborative leadership.
“For those of us within the Unesco World Heritage Site, it is important to us.
“It doesn’t matter if you work at the post office or a museum or you have a shop down here or whether you just live in the town. We really are a community here.
“We always have been, historically, different. We have a desire for this as St Georgians and we would love for the Government to put in place what they essentially started.”