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 ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — 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 ...

Jamaicans have proverbs, expressions, and commentary on just about everything. Marital woes? Workplace drama? The frenzied pace of life? You name it–they’ve probably got an opinion. Some of these ...

'How is it that I, a Jamaican who has lived all my life on the island, do not sound like one?' This realisation dawned when I was mistaken, by both several compatriots, as well as by lovers of Jamaica ...