Joan Williams

Joan Williams, a former talk show host, celebrated journalist and prolific writer who you are probably familiar with by now, is passionate about her small but influential homeland, Jamaica. This has given rise to her producing over the years, several books about the unique island. These are Tour Jamaica, a comprehensive travel guide highlighting everything from the Arts to the Wildlife; Hidden Gems of Jamaica, an outdoor lover’s guide to other remarkable attractions that are off the beaten trail and the Original Dancehall Dictionary, a humorous publication which along with cartoons, teaches readers about the new words and phrases being regularly coined by popular dancehall artists. The 6th edition of this popular publication is now also available on amazon.com as are all her other books. So passionate is Williams about Jamaica that during the 70’s she put everything aside to join those who were fighting to maintain the freedoms and democracy in her native land, against a government intent on joining Cuba as a satellite of Russia. This she records in her political autobiography entitled “LOOKING BACK….. the struggle to preserve our freedoms,” which is also available on Amazon. Now that freedom once again prevails and Jamaica’s continues to grow by leaps and bounds, Williams, seeing the demand by a growing number of persons to become familiar with the colourful Jamaican language, patois, has again risen to the challenge by giving the world TALK JAMAICAN or as we say in patois, CHAT LAKKA WI.