As the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) steps up its efforts to lay the foundation to ensure that the country transitions to the Republic of Jamaica, the debate continues with regard to its ...

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 ...

(Jamaica Gleaner) Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Joseph Farquharson, has asserted that there is still a stigma attached to Patois, otherwise ...

The Bible is, for the first time, being translated into Jamaican patois. It's a move welcomed by those Jamaicans who want their mother tongue enshrined as the national language - but opposed by others ...

It is beyond tiring to hear our leaders speak of the Jamaican language situation as a zero-sum game between standard Jamaican English and the Jamaican patois. That the newest cause célèbre behind 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mark Wilberforce looks at how Ghana's rich musical scene has strong Jamaican links. Afrobeats may be the dominant sound right now in Ghana, as in ...