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JAMAICA | The Solitary Death of the Jamaican Father

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 4, 2026 - O Dave Allen - There is a quiet tragedy unfolding across Jamaica. It is not always visible in the crime statistics, the economic reports or the speeches about national development. It is found in the silent rooms of aging parents, in nursing homes where fathers wait for visits that rarely come, and in large family houses that were built with sacrifice but now stand almost empty.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed
O. Dave Allen is a community development advocate and political commentator based in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
US President Donald Trump has nominated Kari Lake to serve as the US ambassador to Jamaica following her tumultuous tenure at the helm of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

JAMAICA THE BAIT, CUBA THE PRIZE

Kari Lake Comes With the Big Stick as China’s Belt and Road Tightens Its Grip MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 28, 2026 - By O. Dave Allen - Jamaica must not exchange...
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JAMAICA | Out of Many, But Whose One People?

JAMAICA | Out of Many, But Whose One People?

Jamaica’s motto celebrates a union of peoples. But the island’s racial arithmetic — and the coercion behind so much of it — tells a more uncomfortable story about which mixtures...
WiredJA News Team Op-Ed
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