What's It Like Being a Jamaican Living in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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In this episode of “Jamaicans to the World,” Jamaicans.com founder Xavier Murphy speaks with Morine Williams. She is a Jamaican living in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. We discuss the food, culture, customs, the people, things to do, the language, music and adjusting to living in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as an expat. Xavier asks about the must eat foods and must visit places in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. #WeJaminate #Saint Vincent
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She speaks so highly of St. Vincent and the grenadines, she seems so humble and educated, to me she love vincy she is a Jamaican🇯🇲🇻🇨 Vincentian she is welcome in vincy big time I have nice Jamaican friends here who are so good to me ,now she is a real Vincentian welcome 😍❤🙇🏿♂️🙏
We are soooo bless to have Mrs . Williams in St Vincent and the Grenadines. She's very pleasant and Professional.
Morine, I enjoyed your portrayal of St. Vincent and The Grenadines. I'm a Guyanese who lived in SVG for several years, and I love this country and its beautiful people dearly.
0:36 As a book lover , I'm so loving Morine's bookcase. 🤗 So inviting ... 😊
I am a Vincentian national living abroad....thank you Sis Williams for portraying my island well when you mentioned.❤
@ministewart4389
Жыл бұрын
It's nice to see a jamaican in St vincent .l is
@kathyinniss5808
6 ай бұрын
I admire You 😊😘👏 your professional voice spoken even love sounding in your voice SVG & Grenadines now common ground for You much points descriptive of SVG Community daily living Foods & Social Entertainment & professionalism in Work Thank You for your Time given to speak celebration about the difference in Culture from where you were born Your voice spoken sounds you are happy in SVG & the Grenadines 👏
Mrs williams was my music teacher. She was such a beautiful soul to be around.
As a child right here in Jamaica my Father use to cook dasheen leaves soup, that's the part we call the dasheen heart
@jed_vc5010
Жыл бұрын
Correct Vincentians use the dasheen heart which is the leaves right in the middle ...best soup ever ❤
In Trinidad we also prepare callalloo with crab. This is our typical Sunday lunch,
@frederickbartholomew6290
Жыл бұрын
Yeah boy don't forget the curry 😋
@paradiselocks1248
Жыл бұрын
We also do Callaloo like the trinis but we do a soup similar to corn soup with the dasheen leaves, it is delightful!
@user-jv7ui2ku5t
2 ай бұрын
I have to learn to cook that because I want to live in a nice, serene place in my golden years. Smiling!
St Vincent and the Grenadines is just beautiful and blessed.
It's very warm to hear what someone else thinks about my country and loving it.
St Vincent is my country.....lovely it is
IN JAMAICA WE USED THE ENGINE KALE ,...IT LOOKS LIKE THE DASHINE LEAF ...THAT WHAT MAKE PEPER POT WITH COCONUT MILK , OKRA ANY FOOD OF CHOICE ..peas . beans . Etc.
Peace from SVG...such a beautiful video.
An excellent interview, kudos to Mrs Williams a job well done ❤👍🏿
Very informative and educational, as a Vincentian I learnt a lot even to educate others. Thanks to you Mrs Williams.
Yes , getting back these series !
"Saltfish Is Sweeter Than Meat!"🎶🎸🙂
@mariabarnes9197
Жыл бұрын
😅 nice play on ideas
Please don't attack her for saying everybody knows each other. Her status gives her the opportunity to know many. Maybe there is no reason for anyone to know you or you know that many person. Jamaicans shine anywhere and Morine surely doing that. I have Vincy friends too they are nice and warm we met at Mico University College in Jamaica and we are still in touch I want to visit St. Vincent in the near future as I fall in love just from the description of the island by my sister living there. Kudos
Xavier I was born in Jamaica and the first month after I was born my parents moved to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I found out that the Williams family on the island is related to me. My Uncle Henry Williams was a late Governor General.
Maureen is a very good music teacher and also choral speech.
Wonderful interview! I met her ( Sister Morine) first back when I was in high school at the church her husband pastored ( lovely Pastor) and I always admired her as a Jamaican. Loved her singing❤. She has been a leader and a great part of Vincentian society. I am living in Jamaica now...married to a Jamaica so I understand all the sentiments. Vincy🇻🇨 love...and one luv🇯🇲 Jamaica. Laterz😊😊
Beautiful interview. Thanks to your guest. You asked some awesome and thoughtful questions Xavier. I feel like going there. She’s seems so easygoing and welcoming.
I drink a lot of dasheen heart soup the leaves from the center of the dasheen herat. That's what we called pepper pot soup . We mash it out with a fork .
God bless you Mrs Williams tear in my eyes listening to you talk about my Country. As born Jamaican lady you are now a true Vincy to da bones.
This was a great watch. I live in the UK and has been looking how I could move to St Vincent for a while now.
Truly unique Vincentian foods are Blackfish,Arrowroot and Whale those are not found anywhere else in the Caribbean.
@jed_vc5010
Жыл бұрын
Tri tri cakes as well 😊
@plugg999
Жыл бұрын
@@jed_vc5010 Tri tri is found in other Caribbean islands
@jed_vc5010
Жыл бұрын
@@plugg999 where?
@plugg999
Жыл бұрын
@@jed_vc5010 Dominica it is called Titiree
@mdl9096
Жыл бұрын
Do you mean Whale from the ocean?
The Nine Mornings celebration came from the Catholics who had a novena on mornings before Christmas. Back then, there were church services and serenading with speeches done around the communities A novena is done over a period of nine days. The celebration has evolved and no longer includes visiting homes and serenading.
@eunicepitt5339
Жыл бұрын
If you want to go from house to house serenading you can it still in place but now a days people don't want to do it ,I used to do it ,but I'm not living there now ,but they have nine morning up the road with church and different activities you can win a television and other prizes I hear it was so nice last year, I came back to quick I missed it
@huggised
Жыл бұрын
@eunicepitt5339 Yes, some of the Catholic churches have service for the nine mornings. I guess the older folks still serenade in the rural areas. It will be good if we can keep the culture alive.
@eunicepitt5339
Жыл бұрын
Not the Catholic church I'm talking about, Pentecostal church and other groups, and when you go around form house to house we call it singout
I am watching this from USVI St Croix, nine morning was started during slavery when the plantation owner used to go to church service early morning and the slaves had to stay outside and they started having there owe thing outside and it grew from there.This was told to me from the older folks ,I am a vincentian .
Another fantastic interview! Thank you! 💚
Wonderful interview Mrs Williams 👏 As a vincentian I feel so proud of the way you spoke about our island.
I been to vincy last year 😍🫶🏽yall should go visit the falls of Baleine & the Dark view fall
Nice interview she’s a wonderful lady and she’s also one of us Vincy now.
Callaloo soup sounds like Indian kale ('engine kane') soup we used to have in Westmoreland.
Loved this interview!
Wow. How long has she been in Vincy? Cuz she sounds like a Vincy.
This lady (Mrs Williams) use to be one of my music teacher in high school (St. Vincent boys grammar school) back in St. Vincent. Very quiet, soft spoken lovely lady. So nice to see her again on your program.
@paradisesunprincess
Жыл бұрын
I always thought she was Vincentian.
@thegamingzone5963
Жыл бұрын
She knows how to speak like the vincies to.i heard it in her
@sn00psw0rld5
Жыл бұрын
She does 🤣🤣
I knew ms Williams as a principal at Kingstown prep ,didn't know she was from Jamaica my homeland 🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨
@thegamingzone5963
Жыл бұрын
Lol she's intelligent.i knows it was easy for her to speak Vincy
Wow! An excellent description of SVG!! Thanks very much Madam Williams!!
Love you Morine!! Blessings to you.
Had a boyfriend from there. Very intelligent. Iove their..chi chi cake..yum. They have a wine that taste like bubble gum...delish.
@jed_vc5010
Жыл бұрын
Yessss 😂... would that be black wine?
@eunicepitt5339
Жыл бұрын
Vincy black wine is the best 👍
True words Morine, I feel the same way on arriving in JA from SVG.
I think she began her teaching career here in SVG in the 90's at the Kingstown Preparatory school.
@thegamingzone5963
Жыл бұрын
Wow she's there for a long time .dammm she hav the Vincy talk in her to or she can speak it .
there are a lot of yellow yam but we don't really eat it my grandfather used to feed the pigs and I can't explain why most people don't like it and I think it is called Domnic yam
Mrs Williams was spot on with her perspective of Vincy life. We do have the julie mango, but the term grafted mango is interchangeable with the julie variety and other propagated varieties, via the grafting technique.
Julie mango is what they Grafted mango 🥭 😋
Very beautiful place.
She was my principal in primary school. I forgot that she's a Jamaican
@Rjkooljay2
Жыл бұрын
I'm also learning for the first time that Jamaicans eat a different "callaloo" altogether 👀. I thought we were all eating the same thing. This was a very entertaining and educational vid for me
Nice video
Vincy sending love from new York
Morene do you know rosehall I am family of the Williams but live in new York god blessings on you
I will also love to go to Jamaica one day. Vincy to da world!
Big you self guys ❤
St Vincent have about 6 or more different types of mangos
@omariking6850
3 ай бұрын
over ten
How can I get in touch with Mrs William, I have an interest in moving to st Vincent
In my experience "the majority of J.AMAICANS usually describe🇻🇨as S.MALL I.SLAND" ... ✍🏿🇻🇨🇬🇧
@favour3319
Жыл бұрын
Those are the dunce ones, ignore them😀. Get out and meet more cultured, educated people. As a Jamaican, I can tell you there are many pros to living on a "small island". I wish I was from a smaller island sometimes. My pastor is from St. Vincent, he's an amazing human being.
@eunicepitt5339
Жыл бұрын
@@favour3319 go down to vincy and stay ❤
@kamariebirdman5330
10 ай бұрын
1 of my jamaican friends once told me vincy so small u could stay on the countryside and shoot a man on the leeward side 😂😂😂 tell u how small them have we 😂🤦🏾♂️
As we say! Vinci sweet and nice!!
That's what in Jamaica we call hot pepper pot using the leaves
6:23 And we do . Nanny of the Maroons didn't defeated the British and freed the slaves by sitting around being coy . We are spirited people and should OWN it . 😏
Miss Williams u for get to speak about prison concerts ,beach cook on holidays an so much more
Beautiful interview her husband use to be my paster
@joannegeorge8610
Жыл бұрын
What a question if there is any Mango every Caribbean island has mango
Mrs Williams was my teacher in primary school K.P.S
I would not say calypso is the dominant music. It's actually the smutty Jamaican dub music. Some of which Jamaicans have banned on their own airwaves.
Xavier i know Mourine Williams and Bishop Sunny Williams and from the same area and the church where he pastored in Gomea , however the fallacy that everybody knows each other is a false assumption. I don't know people from Georgetown, Chateaubelair or lets say Calliaqua. There is a village type culture but they don't know people from Mesopotamia for example .There was or a tendency to believe Jamaican are very cunning and very very aggressive. I have experience the same aggressive culture living here in Canada . Much of what she said otherwise is true. It is true that Vincentian don't eat ackee because they think its poisonous. Actually, there is yellow yam and we call it Dominic yam and there is a type of yam in Jamaica call Vincentian which has its origin in St Vincent. that picture that you feature is a picture of st Georges Grenada and not St Vincent.
@eunicepitt5339
Жыл бұрын
You said it real good she speaks very highly of vincy, but about every one knows every one no I don't agree because i don't know every body in St.Vincent and the grenadines 🇻🇨🇨🇦
@almckenzie6359
Жыл бұрын
@@eunicepitt5339 you are so right.
@michaelgordon3009
Жыл бұрын
I know that lady,I lived and work in Highgate for sometime, and is very familiar with Blue Gate and Montreal.
What does Miss Williams do for a living in St. Vincent and Grenadines?
That one is not true everyone doesn't know every one where did you get that, in St.Vincent the people are very nice they will treat you the best give you anything , and even take you in
@mdl9096
Жыл бұрын
She didn't mean that literally; it is something that Jamaicans say when there is a close knitted community where within a district/city/village, everyone knows their neighbors and even people from adjoining district/city/village.
❤Watching from Barbados 🇧🇧 but from St.Vincent and the grenadines 🇻🇨. Proud to be Vincy, even though I have Barbadian grandparents, and Trinidad half grandparents as well❤❤❤❤
@user-dj9wb5sj8n
7 ай бұрын
Ur a Caricom baby 😂
Lucky lady, god bless the carribean countries.
U guys need to know Vince is better than most Caribbean islands So put some respect on our name ok !! Vincent run ting
Montage at the start looks like Grenada not SVG.
You forgot the blackfish
Knowlets Go TV
St. Vincent and the grenadines was French before colonized by the British.
St Vincent is not as small as you saying, and not everybody knows one another it's a lie some of the things what you are saying is not true come better than that please.
You leave out the okra from the soup
No we don't know everyone. I have been living in my community for over 10 years and know very few people much less in the other communities.
@FAMD4SH
9 ай бұрын
She’s not really lieing , most people know everyone in their villiage they may not be friends but they know them.
Mangoes are Tropical Fruits.
I’m sorry but I feel like some stuffs weren’t explained properly & some stuffs were left out 🤷🏽♀️my opinion!
@amyg5888
7 ай бұрын
Add it to the comments so we can learn
Morene you speapilike vincentian
Including the First Lady
dwrcl at !street gyal!! so West Indian.....
Ja patty dont taste good again, I think Bickells better than Ja patty 😖
Think 9morning had something to do with slavery and possible emancipation don't quote me on that tho lol