History of Port Antonio

Port Antonio, a settlement first established in Spanish Jamaica when it was known as Puerto Anton, formally became a parish in 1723 by order of the Duke of Portland, the then-Governor of Jamaica after whom it is named. The town, often referred to as the “ Cradle Of Tourism” in Jamaica started in 1893 when banana was king.

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Port Antonio features a trade-wind tropical rainforest climate like many areas with this climate type. The average temperatures vary little throughout the course of the year, with average monthly temperatures of 24 °C (75 °F) and the dry season from February to April.

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The island was glamorized by Hollywood as a model of paradise in movies of the 1940s and 1950s and in later movies such as Club Paradise, Cocktail, The Blue Lagoon and more recently No Time to Die.

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Given its obscurity, seclusion and beauty, Port Antonio is a favorite destination of many Hollywood stars of the past like Errol Flynn and Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Taylor; and it is also playground to today’s leading actors and musicians like Tom Cruise, Mick Jagger and Beyoncé + Jay Z.