The Talk Up Yout-Talk Up Radio show is still focusing on all things youth and Jamaican national elections! We’ve got youth voices, covering youth voting priorities, young politicians and the latest info.

This Episode is about the Campaign Fever, we’re looking at the hype and excitement that usually surround our elections - dubs and debates, motorcades and conferences, and how that's all been affected by COVID-19.

Is this a beautiful part of our culture and national expression? Or a tactic used by politicians to keep us distracted? We're talking about it!

So stay safe, stay washing your hands, stay COVOD-19 free and stay election ready! Listen to Talk Up Radio, here, or online at nationwideradiojm.com or through the Nationwide app available in all app stores.

This is Talk Up Radio, a Talk Up Yout Production, Executive Producer-Emprezz Golding, produced by Kristeena Monteith & Andrica Rigg.  Talk Up Yout mi seh fi Talk Up Yout!

Our History! Listen to one of the most informative radio sessions with the Youth of Jamaica and special guests Professor Verene Shepherd and Steven Golding.

It is often said that Jamaica is losing its culture. Our people fondly remember the days of gathering as a family and even as a community to share what food we had with others, talk about the day’s news and tell duppy story fi di pickney dem. Those days have been replaced with children coming home to an empty house, eating foreign cereal while watching foreign cartoons on TV and surfing the net. No face to face human interaction, no communication.

But we the youth want to know our history, we want to connect with our culture, and we are dissatisfied with the lack of available information so we’re going to experts, the griots and we’re gathering like our foreparents did to hear the stories of our history and of our culture. Jack Mandora, wi nuh choose nuttn but fi wi kulcha!

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Executive Producer: Emprezz Golding

Produced by Kristeena Monteith & Andrica Rigg

Welcome to the TalkUpRadio show, A Talk Up Yout initiative,  the voice of the Jamaican youth on Nationwide 90 FM!

Corruption, nepotism, cronyism. It seems like every couple months there’s a new scandal. Is this the new normal? And what does this mean for Jamaica’s development, civic engagement and the future of Jamaica’s politics.

We’re exploring some of these scandals and asking some tough questions today on Talk Up Radio.

We’ll be joined by Jaime Ann Chevannes of the National Integrity Action, Krystal Tomlinson of PNPYO and Howard Chamberlain of Young Jamaica, the JLP’s youth arm.

So stay tuned, stay safe, stay washing your hands and stay Covid19 free. Listen to Talk Up Yout's- Talk Up Radio, here, or online at nationwideradiojm.com or through the Nationwide app available in all app stores.

This is Talk Up Radio, a Talk Up Yout Production, Executive Producer-Emprezz Golding, produced by Kristeena Monteith & Andrica Rigg. We’ll be right back after this break. Talk Up Yout mi seh fi Talk Up Yout!

We’re sharing the views of the youth on what should be included in the new age sex talk. Our preliminary survey indicates that most young people in Jamaica grow up without ever getting a sex talk from their parents. Some get information from school or from older cousins/siblings.

Issues to address: anatomy, biology, gender, sexuality, sexual abuse, sexual intercourse in age-appropriate brackets with analyses of religious, legal, social and scientific influences on the subject.

Host/Executive Producer-Emprezz Golding

Producers- Kristeena Monteith, Andrica Rigg

Selecta- DJ Jahmari

Thank you to all our guests.

This show was recorded on January 14 2017.

Have some fun learning Jamaican Patois with our young people. Showing patois some love and respect. For most of us, Patois is the first language we hear and thus it becomes our first language. Its descriptive nature influences our imaginations and makes us colourful, vibrant people.

Patois Definition: the dialect of a particular region, especially one with low status in relation to the standard language of the country.

Creole Definition: a creole language, or simply a creole, is a type or classification of language; in particular, a creole is a stable, natural language that has developed from a pidgin (i.e. a simplified language or simplified mixture of languages used by non-native speakers) that over time has become nativized by children as their first language, with the accompanying effect of a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar.

Jamaican Patois: known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora.

Hosts:    Andrica & Kristeena

Guests:    Joel Nomdarkham

Team:    Kristeena - Producer Andrica - Manager

Music:    DJ Antsman

Executive Prouder- Emprezz Golding

​The Talk Up Radio Show is Jamaica’s only radio programme developed and staffed entirely by young people. Created by Emprezz Golding, Executive Producer of Talk Up Yout, the radio show is a space in mainstream media for young people to talk about issues affecting them, the nation and the world and find solutions to these issues in a youthful, engaging, fun and vibrant format. 

Enjoy the Episode as our youth share their experiences and tips.