The Jamaica community on Discord.
Atsay, cousin. This is the online home of The Atsay Project — the community for moving to Jamaica, diaspora business, and building on the ground in Port Antonio, Portland. Diaspora planning the move, Jamaican makers, Airbnb hosts, partners and runners — talking, trading notes, and doing real business. Free to join.
Invite link: discord.gg/KBenv8YBe — tap it, make a free Discord account if you need one, and you’re in.
The ground this community is built on — the market our makers sell from, the town our hosts set up in, the base at 1 Murroon Drive.
One community, built around Jamaica — and the people coming home to it.
Relocating to Jamaica is the thread that runs through everything. Members are at every stage — dreaming about it, scouting parishes, mid-move, or already landed — and the talk is practical: housing, paperwork, parish-by-parish ground truth, and how to earn once you’re here.
Port Antonio Airbnb & retreat setup is a working room, not a theory channel. Hosts and future hosts work through listings, pricing and guest-ready setup for Portland properties, with the Port Antonio Launch team on the ground.
Jamaican makers and Jamaker Supermart connect the supply side: makers list their goods, diaspora members buy, and Moon Harvest buys herbs by the pound. Housing co-ops carry the own-together conversation, the delivery roster keeps riders in Jamaica and runners in the diaspora earning, and diaspora business ties it together — people abroad doing real business with Jamaica, in the open.
Five kinds of people find their seat fast.
If one of these is you, there is already a room with your name on the door.
Diaspora planning a move
You’re in New York, Florida, Toronto, London or Kingston-north-of-the-sea, and Jamaica is the plan. Get parish ground truth, relocation steps and people who are ahead of you on the same road.
Jamaican makers
You make it in Jamaica — food, craft, natural products, herbs by the pound. List in Jamaker Supermart, meet diaspora buyers, and ride the moon-cycle order windows instead of waiting on foot traffic.
Hosts
You own or want to run a place in Portland — Airbnb, guest house, retreat space. Setup, pricing and hosting talk with people doing it now, plus the Launch crew on the ground in Port Antonio.
Partners
You bring people, deals or local knowledge. The Partner Network pays scouts and ground partners a share of the house’s fee — only when client money clears, everything logged.
Runners & riders
You move goods — a scooter in Portland or a car in Brooklyn. The delivery roster pays per confirmed run off a published rate card, at both ends of the route.
None of those — just curious?
Come in anyway. Lurk, read the Ground Notes, ask a question when one comes. Most members started exactly there.
Join free on Discord →Rooms with a job to do.
Not a wall of noise — named rooms, each carrying one part of the work.
Ground Notes
Notes from the ground in Port Antonio — what’s actually happening with prices, places, roads and people, written from here, not from a headline abroad. This is the community’s ground truth feed.
Corridor Watch
Jamaica sector and corridor news that matters to the work — tourism numbers, air links, road and bypass progress, policy moves — posted and talked through as it lands.
Maker drops
New makers, new products and restocks in Jamaker Supermart, announced as they list. Diaspora members see what’s coming out of Portland before anybody else does.
Moon-cycle order windows
Orders pool through the moon cycle, then ship as one consolidated run — that’s how individual family boxes ride one shipment and the export minimum gets easy. Windows open and close in the open, on the calendar.
Deal rooms
Where partners and members bring real business — a listing that needs a host, a maker who needs a buyer, a group order forming. Middleman work, done in the open, logged like everything else in the house.
Announcements & welcome
Start here: who we are, how the rooms work, and the week’s announcements — new doors, new rates, new runs. Say hello and tell us which seat is yours.
Free to join. Paid when you want more room.
Everybody starts free, and the public rooms stay free. The paid tiers open private rooms and closer access — join free first and upgrade only if they earn it.
Community
Full access to the public rooms — the whole conversation, from day one.
- Ground Notes & Corridor Watch
- Maker drops & order windows
- Relocation and hosting talk
- Deal-room announcements
Atsay Member
For members who are actively building — a move, a listing, a business — and want the working rooms.
- Everything in Community
- Member rooms & closer support
- First look at drops and windows
Inner Circle
The smallest room — for partners and builders working directly with the house on deals, launches and ground moves.
- Everything in Atsay Member
- Private Inner Circle rooms
- Deal flow at the table, not after it
Straight answers, then come ask your own.
How do I move to Jamaica?
Most people in our community start the same way: a scouting trip to the parish they are considering, then housing, paperwork and income sorted one step at a time — with people on the ground who can check the things you cannot check from abroad. The Discord is where diaspora members planning a move compare notes, ask questions and follow Ground Notes from Port Antonio. Ground support, relocation help and business formation in Jamaica are run by Mikaveh Co. Join free at discord.gg/KBenv8YBe.
Is there a Jamaican diaspora community online?
Yes — this one. The Atsay Project Discord is an online community for the Jamaican diaspora and friends of Jamaica: people planning to move to Jamaica, diaspora business owners, Jamaican makers, Airbnb hosts, partners and runners. It is free to join, with optional paid tiers (Atsay Member US$10/month, Inner Circle US$25/month) for members who want more access. Join at discord.gg/KBenv8YBe.
How do Airbnb setups work in Port Antonio?
The Port Antonio Launch is a done-for-you Airbnb and retreat setup run by Mikaveh Co. from the ground in Port Antonio, Portland: your place assessed, listed, priced and made guest-ready, with local setup handled for owners abroad. Inside the Discord, hosts and future hosts talk through listings, pricing and retreat setups, and see Corridor Watch updates on Portland tourism and infrastructure. Join free, or see the Launch at theatsayproject.org.
Is the Discord free to join?
Yes. Joining costs nothing, and the public rooms — Ground Notes, Corridor Watch, maker drops and community talk — are open to every member. Two optional paid tiers add more: Atsay Member at US$10/month (≈ J$1,590) and Inner Circle at US$25/month (≈ J$3,975). Join free first and upgrade only if the paid rooms earn it. discord.gg/KBenv8YBe.
I make products in Jamaica — how do I sell through the community?
Jamaican makers list through the Jamaker intake and sell in Jamaker Supermart — you set your wholesale price, the store adds its margin on top, and orders are paid before goods go out. Inside the Discord, makers see maker drops, moon-cycle order windows and buyer interest from the diaspora. Herbs are bought by the pound through Moon Harvest, our herb line powered by Jamaker Supermart.
Come in, cousin. The door is open.
Free to join, two minutes to get in, and a room for whatever you’re building — the move, the listing, the product, the partnership. Start with the welcome room and tell us which seat is yours.
Join The Atsay Project on Discord →Or type it in yourself: discord.gg/KBenv8YBe
Same community, on WhatsApp.
Not everybody lives on Discord. The Atsay Project WhatsApp group is the Jamaica relocation and diaspora business conversation in the app people already use — Portland ground notes, maker drops, moon-cycle order windows and deal talk. The Ground Notes channel carries the published notes.
Talk to us — two numbers, both answered.
Call or WhatsApp. The US number reaches the desk; the Jamaica number is the ground line in Port Antonio.