Port Antonio may not be a shopping bazaar like Montego Bay and Ocho Rios but it still offers many great products that it's guaranteed: somewhere, sometime, you'll be tempted. It might be colorful beachwear, evening fashions, and an exquisite piece of art, an ultra-smart purse, a tropical shirt, a gorgeous piece of jewellery or native crafts.

 Most of its activity centers are around Musgrave Market, West Street in the center of town. This is one of wonderful markets in all of Jamaica. It looks like some director is about to call, "Lights, camera, action!” The most active market day is Saturday. To see the market at its most frenzied, go any day of the week from 8am to noon.

 The sprawling Fort George Village Shopping Arcade is not a mirage.To call it an architectural monstrosity would be too kind; this three-floor structure looks like some of the world's major architectural ideas, thrown into a blender—baroque. The arcade was designed to represent various architectures from around the world. Regardless of what you think of its design, the arcade is fun for a shopping jaunt.  You will find everything from a first-class art gallery to a bookstore, a shoe emporium, and even a hawker of tires. Many of the shops found no one willing to sign a lease. The market can be seen in the center of town across from the courthouse, en route to Titchfield Hill. 

 You can bargain some of the local crafts on Harbour Street, as you come to the City Centre Plaza.  It might good for souvenirs and those things visitors always need: postcards for the ones you left behind, suntan lotion, and that Nora Roberts paperback for the beach.
 If you have already perused the shopping possibilities of the native markets, you might scout out the craft and gift stores of the resort hotels. 

 At the Gallery Carriacou on the grounds of Hotel Mocking Bird Hill, on Mocking Bird Hill (tel. 876/993-7267), you can view the sensuous paintings and sculptures of Barbara Walker, who is one of the partners in the hotel. Her works, and those of other noted Jamaican artists, make up the finest collection of art for sale in the area. Walker also conducts classes in sculpture and papermaking.