What's It Like Being a Jamaican Living in Antigua and Barbuda?

[@Jamaicans]

Thanks for watching! Are you ready to visit Antigua and Barbuda after watching this video? If you are an expat living in Antigua and Barbuda what's been your experience there? Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a video in the “Jamaicans to the World” series - bit.ly/2yRRCxP

[@islandgirl8914]

32 years....wow! I’m an Antiguan living in Jamaica. Treasure Beach is beautiful.

[@5temba]

Did you go to UWI? I think UWI is an undervalued Caribbean institution. Despite my exposure to West Indies and CXC from young, it's really UWI where I learnt to value the wider region and it's diverse citizens.

[@darrenerskine8050]

Im was born in london . But i lived i Antigua and Jamaica for2o yrs . I worked in the hotel s on both island s ❤😂

[@DeDon201]

Being Kittitian, I would say Antigua is a class act. What stands out mostly for me is the people. They are so very friendly and helpful. Cant recall ever having a bad experience there and I have been there many times. I love the accent as well, reminds me of the Jamaican accent

[@edithatelemacque5056]

22¹3 ×+

[@leonardhaye2668]

She is my family we used to live together in Fort Charles District St Elizabeth.

[@jeshuaburton5096]

Nice

[@giniolamy]

Love antigua 🇦🇬 beautiful island 🏝 been there before. Love 💘 Jamaica as well been there too and I'm Haitian

[@carol256056]

Not true I have it as an jamaican

[@carol256056]

East indians

[@carol256056]

Will catch up

[@wintbrenton6373]

You said and I'm Haitian, nothing is wrong with Haitians or Haiti, your people only suffers from decades of cruel dictators that ill-treat the people and drains the resources of the country, God bless bro

[@giniolamy]

@@wintbrenton6373 Respect 🙏🏾

[@karleinegraham446]

Xavier and Marjorie, this was a wonderful, informative interview. Marjorie speaks like an educated 🇯🇲 Jamaican who represents herself and 🇦🇬 Antigua well. One of the deacon, at my Catholic parish, is from Antigua. They are a very refined people and Marjorie fits right in. I didn't know it was so expensive to live there. When I lived in Kingston, doors were left unlocked, and my mother would ask the neighbors to " give an eye" on her seven children until she returned from town. Good substantive interview!!

[@leonardhaye2668]

She is a very educated lady and well spoken.

[@theeliteclass1]

Marjorie sounds like an Antiguan.

[@suebell1212]

Very pleasant interview! I can see why she’s living In Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 for so long, it’s a beautiful island and not to mention their beaches. 😊

[@lornaduncan5273]

Finally, Majorie, a girl after my own heart. On my way home all I can think of is the scenery and weather on our beautiful island. Thanks Xavier 😊

[@cherylmontcrief7600]

One of the best interview. Very eloquent.

[@therealmrmaximus]

Another great interview Mr. Murphy.

[@Jamaicans]

Thanks for the compliment! We are glad you enjoyed this episode in the “Jamaicans to the World” series. If you missed any they are all located here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZuop6R9a9l_sNU&list=PLt0YTBf5UEoc1-D9XLrtMdespsht1oBLJ

[@merlenepryce1263]

Great interview with Marjorie. I loved everything discussed.

[@andreaknight2199]

Nice interview. Me shame to say the first place me stop at upon arrival to norman Manley airport is the man with the coconut water, then Tastee Patty!😄🇯🇲

[@macyfrasier318]

Yes we do have East Indian here ,I have several trees been living here over 25 years and I made sure I have most of the Jamaicans fruit trees in my yard but every year I do get East Indian to buy as well ,last year first choice supermarket had it as well....thank me later.lol.

[@benjaminmawutor3672]

IAM A GHANAIAN .. I LOVE ❤ THE CARIBBEAN .. I HAVE LIVED IN. BARBADOS 🇧🇧 .. ST. LUCIA 🇱🇨 MARTINIQUE 🇲🇶 AND GUADELOUPE 🇬🇵..

[@crocodiletears9096]

I’m from Atlanta Georgia I’m here to learn about Antigua

[@Yesmyjamaica]

Another great interview. 👏🏾👏🏾 The Antiguan accent is so similar to us. And when I was on campus they were one of the islands that liked us. Big up Marjorie. You represent us well. 🙏🏾 🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@Jamaicans]

Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe here so you don't miss any future videos in the series - bit.ly/2yRRCxP

[@rubynewby3519]

Interesting, My St Elizabeth people, close by my Mother's birth place,Barbary Hall, used to some Parchment in St Elizabeth 🤔 Very inspiring 👏Blessings Sis!

[@prideauto102]

Queens NY is 108 sqmi & Brooklyn NY is 66 sqmi & st.ann JAMAICA WI is 485 sqmi & the violence in JAMAICA is 4244 sqmi🙂

[@betsym7056]

Correction ...It takes 1hr and 45 mins by the ferry

[@stanfordclarke4298]

I was in Antigua and visited her office twice. Her receptionist said she was out the first visit; second visit she was in a meeting. Sorry I missed you.

[@Sugi1971]

I like boiled corn too. Usually get half a dozen. One of favorite to get on our way to Ochio Rios.

[@andreeedwards6165]

For 3 yrs I missed the mango/ fruit season am just basking in it all. What we call turn cornmeal they call funji...

[@joanrobinson643]

I am from Bermuda, we had a pastor name Earl Parchment wonderful people. Blessings

[@sistaluv1357]

Thank you for sharing 🌷

[@ronkodak9760]

Yes Xavier nice one again fine them everywhere all Trinidad all Caribbean everwhere St croix

[@anthonymccauley9101]

Great interview, true about the accents. When I lived in London I had friends from Antigua, and they are probably the closest to Jamaica in terms of accent, and there are many other similarities, however, on a cultural level, while the accent is different I think Trinidadians are our closest cousins, just in terms of their vibe, their mixing and blending, food, and the way they handle themselves.

[@normacampbell550]

True , true, Mr Anthony. Perfect. Some Antiguans I have met in USA do not speak kindly of Jamaicans. A bit jealous I would think.

[@normacampbell550]

On the other hand Trinidadians talk more highly of us ... we have more in common in terms of food, way of life etc.

[@normacampbell550]

I look forward to my first visit to Trinidad. Love Antiguans because of the accent.

[@vandelabanque878]

@@normacampbell550 antiguan are not jealous of murder capital...

[@normacampbell550]

Van Delabanque Caught you. You just proved my point. Jamaica is a beautiful place... try visiting. Stay blessed...

[@rudyardsimons8511]

Lovely interview .She has sold Antigua so well I now want to go there for vacation when Covid is under control

[@jenniferchavies1116]

If you want to visit Antigua I recommend taking a local tour called Wadadlicats you can actually watch a video on KZbin. Antigua is so beautiful I recommend to stay longer than three weeks and to send a barrel of food down there. Food and other items are very expensive.

[@millicentjoseph7276]

How many Antiguans are living in Jamaica?..

[@joantaylor9911]

You did well love it was real

[@loveaisles8620]

I enjoyed this

[@karleinegraham446]

Marjorie said that in Antigua, it is known as kidney mango and others that are grafted. I think there was more documentation of foods in 🇯🇲 Jamaica. As a child in Kingston, we had school trips to the Agricultural Dept at Hope Gardens. We learnt the names of foods and,if not native to the island) when/where from a varietal came into Jamaica. Hence Bombay, Christmas names etc for mangoes. There was a great Agricultural Store at Church St near East Parade where people could buy seeds for planting. I hope that the Elementary Schools in Kingston & St. Andrew are taking the children on trips to Hope and the Institute of Jamaica. While I like St. Julie and aforementioned mangoes, I rate the lowly black mango (blackie) with the thin skin that is so sweet that you can also eat.

[@normacampbell550]

So hard to name the mangoes in Jamaica... thousands of species... Enjoyed the interview.

[@Chev2k3]

You don't have to low key like Blackie.... I love it!!

[@haniyyahn]

Antiguans also say unuh. A lot. There are levels of dialect though. You're not going to hear unuh in formal settings. When people really throw down there isn't a difference with stuff like that. Differences for me are some of the French touches that come from the proximity to places like Dominica and the immigrant populations from there. So people make a Wr sound at the beginning of words like "register" and "relative." Also, no one in Antigua will say "hoven" for "oven" or "your honour" with a hard H. No one would pick out Marjorie as not being Antiguan.

[@anitadaw630]

She live in Fitches Creek a quiet area and work Bryson nice lady

[@cherylmontcrief7600]

Beautiful country.

[@jeshuaburton5096]

Its good to c antigua 🇦🇬 and Jamaica🇯🇲 sound similar een na tarking

[@eileenwatt8283]

Antigua has 365 beaches. As they say in Antigua "one for every day in the year ".

[@juniorh9238]

That is advertising 'propaganda'. Dominica claims 365 rivers!!

[@eileenwatt8283]

@@juniorh9238 Really! I've heard that from Antiguans since I was a child.

[@normacampbell550]

Juniorh...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@normacampbell550]

So Jamaica has thousands then...😂😂😂😂😂

[@juniorh9238]

@@eileenwatt8283 Yes. I know. It is now weaved into the Antiguan culture. Next, your children will pass on the same folklore to their children and, they pass it on to etc, etc.... . You get the point.

[@claudettelorraineraphael560]

Jamaica is all over the world

[@andreeedwards6165]

Check out patty delight on ST Mary"s st a Jamaican patty place there...

[@teansterling7810]

on the left going up the hill.

[@teansterling7810]

any time I go to Antigua that’s my place.

[@cheryljoseph6892]

Grafted mango= julie mango kidney mango hacket mango there are a few other names but cant recall right now

[@andreeedwards6165]

The pepper pot as absolutely noooooo pepper at all. Antiguans don't like pepper ( hot pepper)

[@barbaralewis7916]

"See you later" = Until we meet or talk again = a few hours, days, weeks or months.

[@cheryljoseph6892]

See you later/ till next time we have no unusual way of say bye in Antigua

[@darrenerskine8050]

The reason way most Jamaican pick Antigua and monst there the cls to Jamaica culture. Of all the Carribbean .

[@minervapurrier6011]

The east Indian moang is here The staraple is here The neseberry is here I have all of them

[@keriesenpereira3587]

Watching from Antigua #268

[@river5554]

What's the word "PEOPLE as,Plural" instead of PERSONS which is totally INCORECT when describing more than (1) "PERSON"

[@waithabitlection748]

Say hello to Rosie for me from Toronto one love 💘

[@cherylmontcrief7600]

Lovely intro...

[@minervapurrier6011]

We don't miss nothing see you all later

[@avjack2702]

Mr.Murphy do you have relatives from USA ?

[@cherylmontcrief7600]

Very classy feminine lady,.. Saint Elizabeth

[@juniorh9238]

Hi Marjiorie.

[@jrobinson5892]

Oh boy in JAMAICA KIDNEY MANGO IS LOCAL MANGO. most time kidney mangoes have worms.

[@karleinegraham446]

Are we talking about "hairy mangos"?

[@normacampbell550]

Karleine Graham yep....

[@chattinattitv2805]

@@karleinegraham446 No, Kidney mangoes are not hairy mangoes.

[@seanjames6879]

She cant be living in Antigua because we have different names for different mangoes and we have certain mangoes we call grafted. She needs to get her facts right.

[@Chev2k3]

You are so bitter tho

[@chattinattitv2805]

Perhaps consider that she is calling them by the names she grew up knowing them as. 🤷🏾‍♀️ After 32 years, Marjorie is a definite Jamtiguan 😁 Thank you for your positive contributions and words on my island. 🇦🇬❤

[@amrayabaptiste2933]

She's speaking about HER experience.

[@donwright1345]

Is there lots of teaching position or sport teaching

[@richardfoster5799]

What school did Marjorie go to ?

[@LegassiGardensTV]

Very interesting! Jamaicans must have more varieties of mangoes and different foods etc because they are more mixed over there!!! “Out of many one people”! Whereas Antigua is 91% African!!! Jamaicans are from everywhere!!!

[@theeliteclass1]

Just because Antigua doesn't have a motto "Out of one is many", it doesn't mean that 91% of them are African. Antiguans like other islands would be of African and other ethnic mixtures. In Jamaica over 90% of the population is African decent too.

[@yardie2682]

🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬

[@glenfordnicholas1882]

We ketchup

[@andreeedwards6165]

They have no fresh water only beaches. Their tourist tag line is they have 365 beaches on the island...

[@vandelabanque878]

So they drink salt water?

[@genejackson2935]

A hoo u?

[@anitajohn8613]

solaine ask for court money

[@JohnDoe-zz3hj]

Wheres the trees,,, not many palm trees either. Looks dry there.

[@justtime2670]

Jamaica government me to peg the money even if it's 5 to 1

[@Fathis2023]

Please don’t get 🐍 💉

[@anoopkallideen]

Hi, my name is Ajay. I got a job offer in St John which I accepted. I am currently staying in a hotel. I need to rent an apartment urgently. Kindly assist me.

[@alienvibes5405]

I injoyed it up on till she said lets all get vaccinated

[@boynton20]

Lady you are from one parish . Each parish in jamaica is like a different country. Jamaica is going to easily have way more of everything compared to a tiny eastern Caribbean island

[@gracefullygraceful9776]

Well if every country was the same as jamaica then everyone would have returned and this channel might have never existed

[@normacampbell550]

Same so....

[@cassandramarshall6402]

I am Antigua and Barbuda n I can't get a job

[@davidcomma1930]

Boss size has nothing to do with it. Look at Haiti which is much big than Jamaica but suffer so much from poverty and lack due to external forces keeping Haiti down because it is a black country and historical reasons. So any country in the Caribbean can have the same faith as Haiti including Jamaica if these racist forces want to.create fail state and I believe this would happen in the future.

[@rebelfiacause1588]

@@cassandramarshall6402 why?

[@andreeedwards6165]

I will never feel at home as Marjorie, in Antigua. They say aaa yuh while we say unuh. Their accent is quite different, they puck us out as quickly as we pick them out. No jackfruit, no east Indian, they call Julie mango grafted.

[@anngore3842]

Why don't you plant them? Sure they'd grow.

[@eileenwatt8283]

Yeah but they have fruits . I have been to an island that had not one fruit. They said because the soil is clay they can't grow anything there.

[@andreeedwards6165]

@@eileenwatt8283 wow!! Will not be visiting there, unless I can take some. True they definitely do...they grow honey dew melon & cantaloupe on the farm I worked. The little green & brown plums that grow wild in JA it also grows wild there however they called it dums.

[@elizabethfairley6460]

Antiguans do so call Julie mango "Julie." When we make reference to Julie mango as a grafted mango, we're simply talking about how it is grown-- by means of grafting.

[@eileenwatt8283]

@Miami King oh no but i want it to be true! Well at least they didn't spread anything negative it's just a little lie that's flattering 🙂

[@truthseeker6541]

Lol, English speaking Caribbean people have a healthy dislike for each other. Why?

[@nordinah1869]

So sad

[@davidcomma1930]

I donot know where you get that from. That is not true.

[@GreaterEthio]

No we don't its all love.

[@boynton20]

You would had to have lived in all 14 parishes of jamaica to truly know Jamaica in its entirety you cannot know Jamaica if you've only lived in one parish . St Elizabeth alone is a few times larger than antigua and Barbuda all together . I dont get why any jamaican would leave jamaica with so much overwhelming beauty to live in a small island.

[@giniolamy]

I agree Jamaica 🇯🇲 is way bigger i would live there instead

[@therealmrmaximus]

Why would an American leave their country with such geographic, climatic, ecosystem diversity, and beauty, and choose to live in a small island like Jamaica? Do you see how silly a comment can be when the perspective change? Folks growup and put aside your perceived superiority complex. Big up to all Jamaicans in the diaspora.

[@giniolamy]

@@therealmrmaximus How you know I'm American 🤔 and what's wrong with with wanting to live in Jamaica smh as long I have money 💰 so what's the problem

[@therealmrmaximus]

@@giniolamy My comment wasn't directed to you. It was directed to the person who questioned why leave Jamaica to live in a small island. So I drew the parallel of why leave beautiful America to live in small Jamaica. Hope you understand. Peace.

[@giniolamy]

@@therealmrmaximus 😂😂😂 oh ok. My fault. some misunderstanding. I understand you perfectly. respect 👊🏾