The tenth staging of the Portland Jerk Festival dubbed Origins of Jerk with "the Portland Jerk Experience" will be held on July 5 at Folly Ruins.
"We are adding one feature this year that was not necessarily a part of it before and the strategy for that is to bring back families, the core Jamaica audience to the festival, and we have partnered with Honey Bun Kiddies Village. The festival is very important to the economic development of Portland and we see it in going a far way in preserving jerk in Jamaica as uniquely Jamaican. We are going to combine jerk with reggae, family and fun," he stated.
The entertainment package will have The Dragonaries, Queen Ifrica, Leroy Gibbons, Tony Rebel, I Octane and Judy Mowatt.