Burke, associate dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona, is calling on the Constitution Reform Committee (CRC) to include Jamaican Patwa as an official language of ...

"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...

As Jamaica continues to loosen its ties with the British monarchy, momentum is building to make Patois the country's official language alongside English. The proposal was recently floated by the ...

Many Jamaicans speak “patois” or Jamaican creole in addition to Caribbean Standard English. The following patois words and phrases appear in this report: battyman: “Batty” is slang ...

Ghanaian dancehall musicians Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy are in the news as Ghanaians compare their fluency in the Jamaican language, Patois This comes after SHatta Wale's recent trip to Jamaica to ...