Found another exceedingly rare example of still existing Caribbean Received Pronunciation! Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ new Governor-General, Sir Stanley John, speaks in an (admittedly rather toned down) Caribbean RP accent

Beautiful accent and voice

Sir Stanley definitely has a voice with immense gravitas

Remarkable that even my 90 year old grandma born in Jamaica doesn’t sound like this. Reminds me of Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria, who to this day is the only example of African RP I’ve ever heard (Mugabe sort of imitated one in his early career though)

It was definitely an accent of the educated upper classes (much like RP is/was in Britain), rather than what everyday West Indians sounded like. My 81 year old grandfather, who grew up solidly middle class, hasn’t got a shred of RP, for instance

Figures; I’m one of the few in my family to have a very plummy accent despite all of us growing up well-off to some degree (happenstance of school and my mother not wanting me to sound Brummie lmao). It feels almost like the transatlantic accent nowadays

Indeed accents can be very weird like that! I have a cousin in Barbados who has a non-definable mystery American-esque accent, on account of my aunt working HARD prevent her from develop a Bajan accent, which she thinks is ugly as sin

Reminds me of Neil Nunes on BBC Radio 4

Yep! He speaks something quite similar to Caribbean RP. Not surprising since Neil Nunes is from Jamaica. Broadcasting (both among Caribbean diaspora in the UK, and to a degree locally) remains one of the very few places you’ll still occasionally hear Caribbean RP

Get this man and audiobook contrast, a beautiful voice!

It's remarkable given the malign neglect Britain has shown, but there are still some areas where the Caribbean is more English than the English and I love it

Pretty sure I heard some accents like this in Nevis. A lot of locals thankfully switch from "dialect" into something like this when talking to we non-Nevisians.

@mattbramanti He sounds so majestic

It is a rather lovely voice

Nice!! Check out JA's Florizel Glasspole & Eddie "One Don" Seaga

I included a short clip of Glasspole (in fact I believe from this very video) in the original Caribbean RP video in the quote tweet, as a matter of fact!

Just seen it now, also Norman Manley!

The actor Charles Hyatt’s way of speaking was a bit like this. Of course, he died two decades ago,

Interesting. I think you can hear notes of this in Sir Trevor McDonald's speech.

Absolutely

I always loved Trevor McDonald as a news presenter on the BBC

This man would make for an excellent bedtime story narrator

He has the voice fit for being a Viceroy.

Could just be me but it sounds extremely like certain Welsh accents

Omg!! A lot of our Bahamian politicians still speak like this today id it helps! Which makes sense!

He'd make alot of money narrating audiobooks

Need to talk to my Mom about this. Thank you!

Same way Prof. Wole Soyinka speaks

Nathaniel warned about this:

Lady C speaks very similarly

I hope they are teaching this in schools because it sounds regal

Sadly no, the Caribbean RP accent is pretty much extinct. You’ll only very rarely hear it among older highly educated people (such as Sir Stanley here), among a subset of Caribbean diaspora in the UK, and sometimes in television broadcasting