Like many other immigrant communities in Antigua and Barbuda, most Hispanic people struggle economically and are forced to work low-paying jobs.

In the 1990s, work permits were issued to hundreds of Dominicans a year, eventually exceeding the amount given to CARICOM nationals.

It is also said that around this time, many members of an Antiguan community that immigrated to the Dominican Republic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to return to the county in mass numbers.

Antigua and Barbuda was the country of choice for many Dominicans and other Latin Americans due to their relaxed visa policy and easy conditions for naturalisation.

However, members of the community are often only able to find low paying jobs, and many women are forced to work in the country's prostitution sector.