Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher points to a blackboard in a school in Jamaica. As Jamaica continues to loosen its ties with the British monarchy, ...

What's worse than a bad movie? If you ask linguist Joseph Farquharson, he might say a movie that makes a caricature of the distinct patois of Jamaican accents. When asked to be an advisor on the new ...

Parliamentary rule that only English is allowed has reignited debate about language, legitimacy and postcolonial identity When the Jamaican MP Nekeisha Burchell stood up to give her maiden speech, she ...

Kingsley Ben-Adir can currently be seen portraying late Reggae icon Bob Marley in the biopic One Love. Now that production is over and the cast is promoting the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed film, ...

Recent discussions about the exchange between St James Southern Member of Parliament Nekeisha Burchell and Speaker Juliet Holness has sparked a national debate on using Jamaican Patois in Parliament.

An effort to bring Jamaican patois into one of the island’s most formal political spaces has ignited debate across Jamaica and the Caribbean diaspora. According to the Jamaica Observer, Opposition ...

Jamaica often finds itself talking about who we really are — how we speak and how much we value our culture. At the heart of this is Jamaican Patois, the language most of us have grown up speaking, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Walk into any government office, courtroom or classroom in Jamaica, and you’ll be expected to speak the official language, English. But venture into the street, tune into a radio ...

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 ...