Tom Hanks’ son Chet is brushing off criticism after releasing a video of himself speaking Jamaican patois on the red carpet of the Golden Globe Awards. Chet, an actor and musician who goes by the ...
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 ...
For those who didn’t know, Tom Hanks has a son, he’s a rapper and apparently, he loves Jamaican culture so much he felt the need to Patois on display, while on the Golden Globes red carpet. He pretty ...
Controversy over Bibles in Jamaica, the Philippines, and Germany reveal the divide between the sacred and the relatable. When Karen Roach first heard the Bible in Jamaican Patois, an English-based ...
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 ...
When Adele shared a photo of herself earlier this week wearing a Jamaican-flag bikini and Bantu knots while celebrating what would have been the Notting Hill Carnival, it drew a lot of attention on ...
The heart of Jamaican life centers around its history of resilience. Here's 7 facts about life, culture and history in ...
Wah Gwan restaurant on Troost Avenue is raising donations via a GoFundMe to support families in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Aiming for the mythical rise-and-destruction territory of crime films like "Scarface," writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation ...