That statement sounds very very nice, but it’s actually problematic. So what people are not inherently good (as a people)?? What people are considered’bad’ as a group, so not welcome?
I am a Jamaican and I live in Dr over 10 years and been to the jamaican restaurant and it shat !!! Love it!! Amega and her sister is a whole vibe... been here for more than 10 years and can testify that she right lol they have train system and even airline cable cars....amazing country and love it here 🙏🏾♥️
I love Mega! A fantastic interview, right attitude, vibrant spirit with alot of confidence. Sister Amega will succeed wherever she goes. Excellent representation of Jamaica and DR. If I ever visit DR I would have to visit Cafe Jamaica. All the best Mega and much success Thanks for the report of DR, well done, God bless. Peace! Barbara
It's so crazy how different and how are the same. The ancestors really do live through all of us. Are personally going through a food Journey now and seeing how Dominicans foods are similar and how they differ from ours in Jamaica
OMG!!! Amiga bring a whole nother level of Jamaican vibes to this interview 🙌 she had me laffing for three quarters of the interview, she is so real and hilarious 😂 all the best in your business my girl, money haffi mek, food haffi eat 🙌 👏
I'm so very proud of you Amega!! You're a true Jamaican 'SURVIVOR' filled with ambition and resilience. I hope to visit the D. R. one day and I'll definitely be supporting you. Big up an' walk good!!! "REPRESENT" my girl!!! Nuff 💕.
I was entertained the whole time , I couldn't stop smiling right to the end of the iinterview.I hope her business do well ,with all those happy smiles people will keep coming to Cafae Jamaica. Xavier your programme is entertaining and educating .Thanks very much keep op the good work.
Amega’s spirit, positive attitude, and her ability to create her way in a place like DR is truly AMAZING! Wishing her all the success in the world with her restaurant. Passing the info right along to my friend who has a lot of family living there. ✨🇯🇲✨✨✨✨✨✨
Much blessings to Amega and her Journey in the D.R. and her business. Hopefully she does very well. Im Dominican from the states but visit my country often. I will definitely be visiting her Restaurant to get some food. I love JA food that I get here in Brooklyn NY from my long time JA friends. So I love that she brought Jamaica to D.R. its always good to have variety. Santo Domingo is an up and coming city with alot of money floating around, and like she said theres alot of tourist there. So hopefully she get blessed with alot of exposure to uplift her business. #CaribbeanConnection 🇩🇴+🇯🇲: One ❤
Loved it, Amega is creative, ambitious and very down to earth. I am sure that she will have much success in anything she puts her mind to! You've had many great interviews I rank her among the best.
Amega, you are a real Jamaican, full of vibes and a real survivor 🇯🇲 🇯🇲...I wish you all the best in your business and continue to shine...Xavier thank you for another great video ❣️❣️🙏🙏🙏
WOW! Powerful interview. Sound like me when I came to New York. My cousin told me to come stay with him. I never know he was a drug dealer. The week I was about to go to the house , my aunt told me to stay at her house. A few weeks after, he was shot and killed. I had to sleep on the floor in someone bedroom. I thought I better head back home. The job was gone, I had no income. Well, fast forward, I got a job , found an apartment, and sort myself out. You have to be strong and determine to succeed.
Her stories exciting with so many parts, lol. I know time was limited why Xavier had to redirect her a few times, but I would listen to her for much longer though.
Real authentic Jamaican young woman. No pretence. She is for real. One of your best interviews. Love her .She is versatile in the way she speaks. She has the language covered. Really versatile!! Go get your D.R. DREAM.
Xavier, you're such lively, entertaining host. I'm glad that I've once again found your channel. I enjoy all of your guests as well. They tell some very fascinating accounts of their respective journeys
Don't get confused with the names, Dominica is another Island smaller than Dominican Republic. Republica dominicana in Spanish and Dominican Republic in English. You also you can call it DR for short.
Xavier I went to BK Technical H.S. here in NYC. As a 55 y/o born and raised in Harlem, my schoolmates were predominantly English-speaking Caribbean. Till this very day I would say Jamaicans are identical to Dominicans. I'm not referring to how we cook etc. I speak of how we both treat ppl. I want to thank you and this young lady because you are exemplary. We are island no matter what part of the world we live in
Amega, Amega you are so real. Just last night I watched a documentary on Canadian TV about a flight crew from here that got wound up in a drug trafficking scheme, all innocent ofcourse. So right there I erased DR from my bucket list but with your testimonials of the country, I will put it back on my list.. Thanks again Xavier.
BTW Amega hope you and your son have continued success. My family and doors are open to you here in Santiago. I know we're kind of far compared to the capital bit my family would adopt you and your son 😆. I only wish my mother and her sister would've still been alive because they never had girls. My parents came in ‘63 from DR to NYC. Your story definitely reminded me of them. My aunt was the first sponsored by my parents in the ‘60s as well. Just like you they expressed their cultural identity and connected with a new country through the stomach 😆. I have no doubt that your family and Xavier are favored.
Lennox, thats a touchy subject, last week the police raid all the Haitian shops, close them down and took away there stuff. Thats a wound u dont want to open, if u live there.
If people are upset over the DR immigration policy toward Haitians, then don't travel to Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, or Cuba, these nations also share a robust immigration strategy against Illegal Haitians.
Hello! Very informative video. My family is Jamaican and I am wanting to retire there. I am interest to know the areas where our community is living. Wanting to be in a nice modern area where we can easily get to the ocean, shopping, and activities. Where would you suggest? :-). Blessings!!!
@@slim9978 Sancocho. Bistec encebollado, which is beef and onion. white rice with stew beans and stew beef or chicken. Pastel en hoja. Chivo liniero wich is stew goat. Rostisiroe chicken with wasakaka. Yuca empanda or all flour empanadas, which Similar to Jamaica's patty. Kipe Fish with coconut sauce wich is popular in all Caribbeans Islands. Locrio de cerdo or locrio de pollo, which is rice cooked with pork or chicken the same way you cook rice beans together. I just think some Jamaicans can not find anything good that doesn't have curry in it. Very used to curry and jerk which I like both of them.
@@eddiemonesti5671 the thing about most Jamaican not all they just love their own food expecially if they live most of their lives there but I guest that’s for most people yes they love their curry and jerk
I'm Dominican and I dont know exactly which Domican restaurants or people she visited, we eat tons of pork and beef, craziest thing I ever Heard, maybe the people that ate chicken only ate that because that's all they can afford.
I’m happy since the beginning she was helped by a Haitian to find the job, and when she was in Chubble in DR there were still Haitians to help her. That can give her a different perception that every single foreigner should have of Haitian, they are in struggle with some politicians they voted and who robbed them. But they are not bad people overall. About the Dominican food any Jamaican or Haitian is not going to like it, we like seasoning our meat, blend or smash our peas for stew peas but they don’t.
Jamaicans are good people, you guys are always welcome in DR.
We are all Caribbean people.
💯
That statement sounds very very nice, but it’s actually problematic. So what people are not inherently good (as a people)?? What people are considered’bad’ as a group, so not welcome?
@@bevyg5635Haitians…
@@bevyg5635Haitians and the violence.
Jamaicans are very welcome Dominican republic. Caribbean Powers in the house.
We visited there 2 years ago and we loved it there!
@@reeniepm7806🙏
I am a Jamaican and I live in Dr over 10 years and been to the jamaican restaurant and it shat !!! Love it!! Amega and her sister is a whole vibe... been here for more than 10 years and can testify that she right lol they have train system and even airline cable cars....amazing country and love it here 🙏🏾♥️
Hey Craig, just came across this video. I am planning to visit DR in Jan. Hope to see you soon.
I love Mega! A fantastic interview, right attitude, vibrant spirit with alot of confidence. Sister Amega will succeed wherever she goes. Excellent representation of Jamaica and DR. If I ever visit DR I would have to visit Cafe Jamaica. All the best Mega and much success
Thanks for the report of DR, well done, God bless. Peace! Barbara
What is the name of her restaurant?
@@CarlafluffyBalvinbrownand it shat !!!
Amega had me in stitches, she’s so festive. We know how to survive wherever we go🇯🇲🇯🇲
Gofio
It's so crazy how different and how are the same. The ancestors really do live through all of us. Are personally going through a food Journey now and seeing how Dominicans foods are similar and how they differ from ours in Jamaica
Amega you are a DR Ambassador. As a Jamacian your interview fill me with excitement. 🇯🇲
I enjoyed this interview! She’s going to the top without limits. You go, Amega!
This interview was one of the best, I enjoy Amega ‘s story very much. I wish her all the best, in D. R. ❤
OMG!!! Amiga bring a whole nother level of Jamaican vibes to this interview 🙌 she had me laffing for three quarters of the interview, she is so real and hilarious 😂 all the best in your business my girl, money haffi mek, food haffi eat 🙌 👏
I'm so very proud of you Amega!! You're a true Jamaican 'SURVIVOR' filled with ambition and resilience. I hope to visit the D. R. one day and I'll definitely be supporting you. Big up an' walk good!!! "REPRESENT" my girl!!! Nuff 💕.
Welcome to my country all my jamaican brothers and sisters.
Amega has really give us a lot on the Dominican Republic which is much appreciated 👍👍👍 nice going Xavier nuff nuff respect big up up one love 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
She is a real traveller.
I was entertained the whole time , I couldn't stop smiling right to the end of the iinterview.I hope her business do well ,with all those happy smiles people will keep coming to Cafae Jamaica. Xavier your programme is entertaining and educating .Thanks very much keep op the good work.
I love it this lady have a lot of vibes
Xavier,thisinterview with Sister Amega is one that is Straight from the Heart.l love her vibes ❤🇬🇾
Amega’s spirit, positive attitude, and her ability to create her way in a place like DR is truly AMAZING! Wishing her all the success in the world with her restaurant. Passing the info right along to my friend who has a lot of family living there. ✨🇯🇲✨✨✨✨✨✨
Welcome to all jamaican brothers to my country.
Much blessings to Amega and her Journey in the D.R. and her business. Hopefully she does very well.
Im Dominican from the states but visit my country often. I will definitely be visiting her Restaurant to get some food. I love JA food that I get here in Brooklyn NY from my long time JA friends. So I love that she brought Jamaica to D.R. its always good to have variety. Santo Domingo is an up and coming city with alot of money floating around, and like she said theres alot of tourist there. So hopefully she get blessed with alot of exposure to uplift her business.
#CaribbeanConnection 🇩🇴+🇯🇲: One ❤
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR JOURNEY WITH CAFE JAMAICA 🇯🇲 ✨️
Congratulations. Amazing Journey 🇨🇦🇹🇹
Omg!! Lol with this interview. Just love her 🇨🇦🇹🇹
Love her spirit!🌺🌺
I love her hustling mentality.
Big up Sista.
Great interview. All the best to you Amega. I love your spirit and can do attitude.
Loved it, Amega is creative, ambitious and very down to earth. I am sure that she will have much success in anything she puts her mind to! You've had many great interviews I rank her among the best.
I meditate the same way at my job sometimes 😂😂😂😂. Continue the journey stay strong.
Amega, you are a real Jamaican, full of vibes and a real survivor 🇯🇲 🇯🇲...I wish you all the best in your business and continue to shine...Xavier thank you for another great video ❣️❣️🙏🙏🙏
I’m happy to be both 🇯🇲🇩🇴
So you’re both Jamaican and Dominican ? What’s your birth country ?
@@kerwensjoseph2828 the us
@@nycbebe2699 😂😂😂
@@kerwensjoseph2828 what’s funny
@@nycbebe2699 your case
35:19 She took us right there for real. I like her vibes. Im sorty she didnt drop her Instagram angle.
Much success!
Amega is a big vibe. I love my Jamaican people.
Amega, I'm proud of you and congratulations! Big-up.
All the best to you sista, you have a great spirit, God bless.
WOW! Powerful interview. Sound like me when I came to New York. My cousin told me to come stay with him. I never know he was a drug dealer. The week I was about to go to the house , my aunt told me to stay at her house. A few weeks after, he was shot and killed. I had to sleep on the floor in someone bedroom. I thought I better head back home. The job was gone, I had no income. Well, fast forward, I got a job , found an apartment, and sort myself out. You have to be strong and determine to succeed.
Home girl is a lot of fun ❤
Another wonderful interview actually I would say this is the best interview you've ever done I love her, with a great personality.
Her stories exciting with so many parts, lol. I know time was limited why Xavier had to redirect her a few times, but I would listen to her for much longer though.
Amega, thank you for sharing your journey. I smiled and laughed all the way through this interview. My girl, you need a UA-cam channel.
This interview is one of the best 👏🏽👏🏽
Loving her vibes🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
Real authentic Jamaican young woman. No pretence. She is for real.
One of your best interviews. Love her .She is versatile in the way she speaks. She has the language covered. Really versatile!! Go get your D.R. DREAM.
love this....thank you for selling Jamaica, I went D R three times also, it was good.
This is a wonderful interview.
Amega is a whole vibe lol....I love her
This is the most enthusiastic guest I have ever seen on the program!
Very wise sister, God bless you 🙏🏿
I love this for you my sister...... this is a great move.. respect... love jamaica rep jamaica everywhere we go.
I enjoy this interview she look of spirit love her smile 🇯🇲🇯🇲❤👍😍
Great interview as usual. I am from Barbados 🇧🇧 It is interesting to hear. what other people think about us.
Agreed!🇧🇧
Xavier, you're such lively, entertaining host. I'm glad that I've once again found your channel. I enjoy all of your guests as well. They tell some very fascinating accounts of their respective journeys
Loved this interview ! I was cracking up (LOL). She was real !
Probably the most entertaining interview Xavier ever had...😆🤣😂
Love ur programme xavier
She’s funny and down to earth!
Love the name 'Cafe Jamaica'
Hello, I'm a Jamaican and bought land in DR a few months ago. I would love to be in touch with Jamaican there.
I love your interview
Dominica sounds such fun. I would love to visit.
Don't get confused with the names, Dominica is another Island smaller than Dominican Republic. Republica dominicana in Spanish and Dominican Republic in English. You also you can call it DR for short.
@@eddiemonesti5671 Yup. DR short in English and RD short in Spanish.
@@poorweakcua6372 You got it my friend.
Dominican Republic, not Dominica. Two different islands.
Love the story
Blessings and continued successes with your restaurant! Very entertaining and real vibes!🙏🏽🌺
Love her story.
Amega full a vibes!!
Love amega Smith girl my surname is Smith too💕 we could be related
Stay bless good luck on your Journey and accomplishment
Love the people of the DR love their food also
Awwww my country woman 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Xavier
I went to BK Technical H.S. here in NYC. As a 55 y/o born and raised in Harlem, my schoolmates were predominantly English-speaking Caribbean. Till this very day I would say Jamaicans are identical to Dominicans. I'm not referring to how we cook etc. I speak of how we both treat ppl. I want to thank you and this young lady because you are exemplary. We are island no matter what part of the world we live in
Anthony Domanican republic and Domanica are two different countries
Am Dominican and I love Jamaican people. I love Jamaican food. My best friend is from Jamaica and my cousin married a Jamaican man. Nothing but love.❤
Me too ❤ .greetings from D.R.
Seriously I love DR I’m Jamaican and everytime I go to DR I feel the hospitality even buy a condo in DR gracias mi primos 🇯🇲🇩🇴🤝🏾
Mi love Amega's energy
Amega, Amega you are so real. Just last night I watched a documentary on Canadian TV about a flight crew from here that got wound up in a drug trafficking scheme, all innocent ofcourse. So right there I erased DR from my bucket list but with your testimonials of the country, I will put it back on my list.. Thanks again Xavier.
Heyyy love this!!!! I'm a British/Jamaican living in the DR for 6 months now. I would love to contact some of you.
Great video thanks
This is great
Xavier this interview is just different
Congratulations, I was there a few years ago and it's a great country.
I love this. When you get big, Please open a Café in Puerta Plata!
They are nice people.
I love this girl 😂💖
Love you my sister fly our flag high ❤
Love 🇩🇴 and 🇨🇺 been to both they are our cousin 🇯🇲
Great that she's doing well in Dr now she is our.
BTW Amega hope you and your son have continued success. My family and doors are open to you here in Santiago. I know we're kind of far compared to the capital bit my family would adopt you and your son 😆. I only wish my mother and her sister would've still been alive because they never had girls. My parents came in ‘63 from DR to NYC. Your story definitely reminded me of them. My aunt was the first sponsored by my parents in the ‘60s as well. Just like you they expressed their cultural identity and connected with a new country through the stomach 😆. I have no doubt that your family and Xavier are favored.
What she saw about dominican foods wa fast foods places, what we cook at home and eat is totally different.
I taught ESOL in the Dom Rep for 2 years. Jamaicans can study there !
MAZING STORY .
Hello love the program. Is it possible to get a link with this young lady?
Not only a fun interview but also very informative. However, I would have love to get her views on the local DR attitude with their Haitian neighbors.
Lennox, thats a touchy subject, last week the police raid all the Haitian shops, close them down and took away there stuff. Thats a wound u dont want to open, if u live there.
If people are upset over the DR immigration policy toward Haitians, then don't travel to Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, or Cuba, these nations also share a robust immigration strategy against Illegal Haitians.
Any other questions?
Your real question should be, 😂 why wouldn't Dominicans hate Haitians back.
They have done a lot to change their country for the better
Big up unusef Xavier & Amega! Amega yuh hab yuh own spice trus mi! 🤣
Respec an Mannaz!!!
Hello! Very informative video. My family is Jamaican and I am wanting to retire there. I am interest to know the areas where our community is living. Wanting to be in a nice modern area where we can easily get to the ocean, shopping, and activities. Where would you suggest? :-). Blessings!!!
I am Jamaican raised in new York with Dominicans from catholic school and their food is off the chain I don't know who u hang with that was cooking,
It surprised me when she said Dominicans don't eat pork and beef.
What about their Sancoch that soup they make with all different meats
@@slim9978 Sancocho.
Bistec encebollado, which is beef and onion.
white rice with stew beans and stew beef or chicken.
Pastel en hoja.
Chivo liniero wich is stew goat.
Rostisiroe chicken with wasakaka.
Yuca empanda or all flour empanadas, which Similar to Jamaica's patty.
Kipe
Fish with coconut sauce wich is popular in all Caribbeans Islands.
Locrio de cerdo or locrio de pollo, which is rice cooked with pork or chicken the same way you cook rice beans together. I just think some Jamaicans can not find anything good that doesn't have curry in it. Very used to curry and jerk which I like both of them.
@@eddiemonesti5671 the thing about most Jamaican not all they just love their own food expecially if they live most of their lives there but I guest that’s for most people yes they love their curry and jerk
I know She's crazy wow she's bugging out
You're funny as hell!!... 😂
Sounds So Intelligent🫶🏾
Very interesting and inspiring 👏 went to Tarrant Jr Secondary! Big up!
I'm Dominican and I dont know exactly which Domican restaurants or people she visited, we eat tons of pork and beef, craziest thing I ever Heard, maybe the people that ate chicken only ate that because that's all they can afford.
Real vibes
I heard there was a Jamaican restaurant in Sosua Dominican Republic 🇩🇴.
Yes, there is. I grew up in Jamaica, currently live in Canada and have a vacation home in Sosua.
People sell Coffee and Boiled Eggs at the roadside. They have carriers on bicycles that sell Vegetables !
Me love she like cook food! 🇦🇬 🇩🇴
My respects to my Jamaican brothers and sisters
Amega similar to the spanish Amiga.
she have me in stitches 🤣🤣.. Amiga will survive any we're she land's. because she have a buz
I’m happy since the beginning she was helped by a Haitian to find the job, and when she was in Chubble in DR there were still Haitians to help her. That can give her a different perception that every single foreigner should have of Haitian, they are in struggle with some politicians they voted and who robbed them. But they are not bad people overall. About the Dominican food any Jamaican or Haitian is not going to like it, we like seasoning our meat, blend or smash our peas for stew peas but they don’t.
Reach out to Juicy there patties are in Antigua.