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 ...

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 ...

Shatta Wale, in a video, explained why he failed to speak patois during his conversations with Jamaicans at Vybz Kartel's concert The dancehall musician noted that some Jamaicans commended him for ...

A man was on Tuesday fined $30,000 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after he pleaded guilty to charges of using ...

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 ...

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