10 Go For Festival Queen Crown
Ten contestants will vie for the crown as Miss Portland Festival Queen 2023, on Saturday, June 24.
(The contestants are: Standing (from left): Kensanie Usher, Miss Swift River; Gabrille Walker Ellis, Miss Nonsuch Cave; Candece Constantine, Miss Nanny Falls; Chevoneese Lindsay, Miss Frenchman’s Cove Beach; Tashieka Scarlett, Miss Cenotaph.
Seated (from left): Anlisa Keaten, Miss Somerset Falls; Nattanya Palmer, Miss Reach Falls; Sashanique Beckford, Miss Blue Lagoon; Makalia Benjamin, Miss Folly Ruins; Tameika Bernard, Miss Blue Mountain.)
The coronation show will take place at Port Antonia High Auditorium, Port Antonio, beginning at 7:00 p.m. This is one of the latest in the schedule of shows, put on by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), to select 13 parish queens from among whom a National Festival Queen will be chosen in July. (Kingston and St Andrew together will have one queen).
The ten contestants from Portland are larger in number than the six that contested in St Mary and the seven from St Ann. You can depend on North Coast Times to provide coverage of the event.
