On February 16th & February 17th, 2024, the Statia Cultural Heritage Committee (SCHIC), in collaboration with the St. Eustatius Historical Foundation, will host a community engagement event that will bring the descendant community of enslaved Africans together in sacred spaces to honor and remember them. The funding of this event was made possible through the National Institute for the Dutch Slavery History and Legacy (NiNsee).

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands.

Humacao, Puerto Rico – Curator Edwin Velázquez Collazo is the

With this latest book, “Nation Building, Our Challenges, Resilience and Responsibility”, in short Nation Building, author drs. Eugene B. Holiday delivers a socio-political history book covering significant developments of the first two decades of 21st century Sint Maarten and provides building blocks for the nation’s further development.

The St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance reveals the names, ages, professions, and religious beliefs of 96 ancestors who were once connected to the Golden Rock plantation on St. Eustatius. This is part of the project “Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins” that encourages the St. Eustatius community to make the Afrikan history of the island more visible and more personal.

President Akufo-Addo stated that the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, which begun with some twenty (20) slaves from West Africa being forcibly sent in 1619 to the United States of America, was devastating to the continent and to the African Diaspora