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 ...

However, for critics, using Patois in schools could "put Jamaican students at a disadvantage when competing on the world stage", the paper added. Adopting Patois as an official language could put ...

Dancehall musician Shatta Wale has responded to the backlash from his failure to speak patois with Jamaican artistes at Vybz ...

it is not hard these days to hear Ghanaians talking a little Jamaican Patois, which is different from Pidgin English, a lingua franca spoken by roughly a fifth of Ghana's population. Take ...

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 ...