US EditionGarth Rattray | From prison sentence to prison ‘sentance’
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Garth Rattray | From prison sentence to prison ‘sentance’
Parts of our Jamaican language come from broken English. People may say ‘furr’ when they mean ‘far’, and ‘sentance’ when they mean ‘sentence’. Some of us playfully use the broken version as a makeshift superlative. Therefore, when I heard about the new sentencing guidelines, the first thing that came to my mind was, “dat deh ah prison sentance!” On April 29, Jamaica’s House of Representatives amended the Offences Against the Person Act and the C…
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