About Portland 
Notable Residents
Notable Residents
Notable Residents
Amy Ashwood Garvey (10 January 1897 — 11 May 1969) was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Garvey.
Arthur "Duke" Reid, CD (born 1915 in Portland, Jamaica, died 1975) was a Jamaican record producer, DJ and label owner. He ran one of the most popular sound systems of the 1950s called Duke Reid's the Trojan after the British-made trucks used to transport the equipment. In the 1960s, Reid…
Bent Kristensen, affectionately known as Mr Kris marched to the beat of a different drummer. And marched he did. Near and far from his modest offices in the Singer Building, it was a common, and daily site, to see Kris shuffling along with his vast bag of paperwork containing data…
Billy Wilmot, aka Billy Mystic or Uncle Bill, is a living legend in Jamaica. He came to prominence as the lead singer of The Mystic Revealers who burst onto the global reggae music scene in 1985 with their first major single, Mash Down Apartheid.
Born Marlon Ricardo Williams in Kingston 26 years ago, Bling Dawg was raised in Portland and Miami. His first stage name of Ricky Rudie was one he had for a long time prior to adding the ‘aka Bling Dawg’ to the mix. He recalls, “I went to Miami and…
