A new book that should further the debate on the use of Creole in the education system to help children realise better learning outcomes has hit the shelves of Jamaican bookstores. Authored by ...

“Well, I’ve always known that my views on Jamaican Creole or Patwa, the native language here, were contentious but sound”: Annie Paul is vindicated. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

We've made some important changes to our Privacy and Cookies Policy and we want you to know what this means for you and your data. We and our partners use ...

In January of this year, a landmark conference in Jamaica concluded with the presentation to members of the public of the final draft of The Charter on Language Policy and Language Rights in the ...

In recent days Ronald Thwaites, Opposition spokesman on education, made an interesting entry into the current debate on the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) story. I agree with the idea from Thwaites that ...

This article provides the first systematic analysis of early subject omission in a Creole language. Basing our analysis on a longitudinal corpus of natural production of Jamaican Creole (JC), we ...

Pamela Mordecai has published poetry, short stories, children's books and essays. She's also written a play and published numerous anthologies. Now, at 72, she's written her debut novel, Red Jacket.

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 ...