Jamaica: Education Ministry endorses Patois Bible
From Jamaica Gleaner The Ministry of Education yesterday endorsed the move by the Wycliffe Caribbean Bible Translators to translate the Old Testament into Jamaican Patois. Marlon Morgan, senior technical coordinator at the ministry, shared that Caribbean Creole languages, including Jamaican…
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Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community
By Heide Brandes From BBC When West Africans on their way to the New World’s slave markets escaped in 1635, they intermarried with Caribbean islanders to create a new and distinct culture. The boats came at dawn along the shores…
Sam Selvon: The ground-breaking author who gave voice to the Windrush generation
By Chris Baynes From Independent UK His ground-breaking 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is as important today as it ever was, relating the story of Caribbean immigrants who arrived in Britain full of hope and found themselves struggling in isolation…
