The Caribbean islands are certainly NOT known for racism at all. In fact I’ve just spent ages on Google trying to find stories and articles on racism on the islands and all I could find were references to people who were were richer and whiter being treated with superiority, colourism, where some people think it’s better to be fairer skinned due to remaining colonial attitudes and an article on how some Caribbean islands were involving themselves in BLM in solidarity with Americans.
Of course you’re going to get jealous locals who are unhappy they are being paid peanuts whilst foreigners move into a gated community and earn gazillions compared to them but its not about the race of the gated community foreigner it’s about inequality between poor locals and people who appear to fly straight into big houses and high paying jobs. It’s the same hostility you get from poorer people in Northern mill towns towards the richer Londoners. It’s about inequality of opportunities and fairness. The motto for Jamaica is ‘out of many, one people’ meaning all races of Jamaicans are Jamaican. The Caribbean does not have this strange sickness and obsession with race like Europe and America all. They are very mixed and ok with that. Some people can’t fathom that not every country treats immigrants with open hospitality and violence with newspapers like the Daily Mail and Sun encouraging it all.
As for crime, there are about 20 Caribbean countries, there are not all the same. Nobody would say, why would you go to Europe? What about the crime?! As if all of Europe was the same. There is as much variation between crime rates in the poorest area of Kingston Jamaica, and the wealthiest parts of Jamaica as there is between Barbados and the Dutch Antilles. Average middle class people, living average middle class lives are not being shot at every time they leave their houses at all and I’ve never heard of one death related to terrorism in any Caribbean island.
In addition, someone mentioned crime being linked to local drug use. Again this is false. Locals don’t tend to do hard drugs, they can’t afford them for one, cocaine is seen as being for celebrities and rich people. Some Caribbean islands are used as a gateway to the lucrative Europe market by South American cartels. Local gangs make a lot of money working with them and it causes many problems including violence in poor areas.
OP if you want to go, go, don’t listen to some of these people who literally can’t comprehend why a white person would want to live in a majority non-white country. It confuses and scares them as they’ve been taught everything in Europe is superior. The Caribbean islands are all different, have good and bad points like any other country. It’s a shame a positive post about someone wanting to move to somewhere other than Spain or France (as that’s as foreign as they can handle) turns into one where people are questioning why you would ever want to leave wonderful UK and move to a scary majority non-white country.