KINGSTON, Jamaica – When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica’s patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their heads. Some on the ...

Growing up in a Jamaican family in Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood, picture book author Nadia L. Hohn was discouraged by her parents from speaking in Jamaican Patois. “ They wanted me to speak proper ...

Clive Forrester is a continuing lecturer at the department of English language and literature at the University of Waterloo. He was born in Jamaica and previously taught a course on Jamaican Creole at ...

KINGSTON, JAMAICA—When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica’s patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their heads. Some on the ...

TORONTO — The words are slurred and drawled, trailing off in the middle of a barely coherent tirade. But the Jamaican swear words peppering the latest controversial video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ...

Nadia L. Hohn is a writer, musician and educator based in Toronto. She was named one of six Black Canadian writers to watch in 2018 and is the author of several popular picture books, including ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica is embracing a controversial Super Bowl commercial that depicts a white office worker from the U.S. Midwest feigning the Caribbean island's lilting patois accent to display ...

TORONTO – Just what was Rob Ford saying in the video recently uploaded to YouTube? The words are slurred and drawled, trailing off haphazardly into the middle of a barely coherent tirade. But the ...

We were deep into a plate of Patois' jerk chicken chow mein when the glorious possibilities of Jamaican-Chinese cooking first became clear to me. The dish was Chinese on the bottom – it was crunchy, ...

Hundreds of peoplepackedToronto's Revivaltime Tabernacle to honour the memory of Miss Lou — Jamaican-born performer Louise Bennett-Coverley. Friends, politicians and members of the Jamaican-Canadian ...