Ja: Louise Bennett honored in Canada

JAMAICA'S CONSUL General to Toronto, Vivia Betton, has praised Jamaica's Ambassador of Culture, Louise Bennett-Coverley, for her "titanic and enormous contribution" to Jamaica.

"Miss Lou started the movement for a people to communicate to others in their native tongue. She made it fashionable, respectable and acceptable," said Miss Betton. "She gave our patois potent that thousands of ordinary Jamaicans could feel confident to speak of their dreams, aspirations, fears and hopes with passion in a language of our own."

The Consul General's comments were made at the recent "Boonoonoonoos Brunch & Brawta" organised by the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) in Toronto, Canada.