Some years ago, the DCS sold the land on which Fort Augusta sits to the Port Authority of Jamaica.

In April 2020 it was announced that the Jamaican government intends to use Fort Augusta as a half way house and counselling center for returning deportees.

[1] In 1763 lightning struck the fort and its three thousand barrels of gunpowder causing an explosion that broke windows 17 miles away and killed three hundred people.

The remains of the fortress now consists of massive crumbling walls of brick that have been fortified with other materials (including barbed wire).

[8] On the south side of the harbor mouth on the Port Royal sand spit was Fort Charles (Jamaica) built soon after the English conquest in 1655.