We may not think of Jamaica as a bilingual society, but local bloggers are assuring us that it is. English and Patois—or Patwa, as it's often written—are widely spoken, but the Jamaican mother ...

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What is Jamaica’s true “official language”? Does it have two? Should it acquire a “second language” and if so, what should it be? These questions have had Jamaican commentators tied up in knots for ...

Diversity matters, even when it comes in the form of a doll. With research that shows dolls with unrealistically thin bodies have had negative effects on young girls’ self-esteem, a movement has ...

If you've ever visited Jamaica, you might have noticed that when locals aren't using recognizable English words, they speak in a lyrical dialect that you can't quite follow. Many Jamaicans speak in ...

(AP) 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 deeply ...

When Saffron Jackson went to buy her daughter a doll, she was frustrated at the dearth of options for black girls. So Jackson, a 38-year-old Jamaican teacher who resides in the United Kingdom, decided ...

When Adele shared a photo of herself earlier this week wearing a Jamaican-flag bikini and Bantu knots while celebrating what would have been the Notting Hill Carnival, it drew a lot of attention on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The predominantly black country of Jamaica is embracing a controversial Super Bowl ad that depicts a white office worker from the U.S. Midwest feigning the Caribbean island's ...

Controversy over Bibles in Jamaica, the Philippines, and Germany reveal the divide between the sacred and the relatable. When Karen Roach first heard the Bible in Jamaican Patois, an English-based ...