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WiredJA News Team News 17 May 2026

JAMAICA | Phillips Warns Airport Revenue Securitisation Could Mortgage Jamaica’s Future

Kingston, Jamaica. May 16, 2026 |PNP PRESS RELEASE - Opposition Spokesman on Transport and Mining, Mikael Phillips, MP, has criticised the Government’s decision to securitise future airport revenues, warning that the move could undermine Jamaica’s long-term fiscal flexibility and weaken future airport development.

WiredJA News Team News 17 May 2026

JAMAICA | Phillips Warns Airport Revenue Securitisation Could Mortgage Jamaica’s Future

JAMAICA | JUTC Bleeds $14.8 Billion as Phillips Declares Jamaica’s Public Transport System ‘In Decline’

With over $100 billion in accumulated losses and an $11 billion government bailout keeping the lights on, the Opposition is demanding answers — and a real plan. KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 15,...

WiredJA News Team News 16 May 2026

Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, has proposed a refinery, estimated at $17 billion which, according to The Financial Times, would be one of the largest industrial investments in East Africa.

AFRICA | Dangote Bets $17 Billion on Kenya — and Buries East Africa’s Regional Dream

Africa’s richest man has chosen Mombasa over a multilateral energy alliance, exposing the fragility of regional cooperation — and raising uncomfortable questions about who really shapes the continent’s economic destiny. When...

WiredJA News Team News 15 May 2026

CARICOM | Persad-Bissessar's CARICOM Gamble: Can Trinidad and Tobago Afford to Bite the Hand That Feeds It?

Port of Spain's defiant posture on the Barnett reappointment row carries a reckless arithmetic — T&T extracts more from CARICOM's common market than any other member state, and no amount...

WiredJA News Team News 13 May 2026

Donald Trump has nominated longtime ally Kari Lake to be the next US ambassador to Jamaica.

JAMAICA | Trump Taps Kari Lake as US Ambassador to Jamaica

The former broadcast journalist and Arizona political firebrand is Washington’s pick for Kingston — but her record raises pointed questions about what America’s diplomatic priorities really are. KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 12,...

WiredJA News Team News 12 May 2026

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) speaks during a press conference held by the members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss the immigration executive orders enacted by the Trump administration in the U.S. Capitol on January 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images.

UNITED STATES | How Many Nuclear Bombs does Israel Have? Democrats demand answers from Marco Rubio

WASHINGTON DC, May 7, 2026| By Sharon Zhang| The Real News - A group of Democrats in the House is demanding that the Trump administration provide critical information about the scope and...

WiredJA News Team News 09 May 2026

TOURISM | Bridging Continents Air Peace Makes History with Direct West Africa - Caribbean Service

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Calvin G. Brown | May 9, 2026 - For generations, the journey between West Africa and the Caribbean — two regions bound by history, culture, and blood —...

WiredJA News Team News 09 May 2026

CARIBBEAN | CARICOM Silence & Sovereignty

While Washington bombs Caribbean waters and labels the dead “narco-terrorists,” the region’s leaders have chosen the silence of complicity. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 9, 2026 - The body count is no...

WiredJA News Team News 09 May 2026

CUBA | Washington’s Noose Tightens: Trump’s Executive Order Threatens Genocide against the Cuban People

A White House Executive Order signed May 1, 2026, and the Treasury’s designation of Cuban entities six days later, have taken Washington’s decades-long economic war against Cuba to a ruthless...

WiredJA News Team News 08 May 2026

Opposition Spokesperson on Social Protection and Social Transformation, MP, Dr Angela Brown Burke.

JAMAICA | PNP Calls for Rights-Based Social Protection Framework Rooted in Dignity and Inclusion

Opposition Spokesperson Dr Angela Brown Burke says Jamaica's social protection system has been reduced to charitable handouts — and that the State's obligation to its most vulnerable citizens demands far...

WiredJA News Team News 07 May 2026

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