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WiredJA News Team News 20 August 2025

GUYANA | Carter Center Critical of Guyana's Electoral Preparations Ahead of September Vote

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 19, 2025 - The Carter Center has issued a scathing pre-election assessment of Guyana's upcoming September 1 general and regional elections, highlighting significant concerns about electoral preparations and the political environment that could undermine the integrity of the democratic process.

WiredJA News Team News 20 August 2025

President Irfaan Ali meeting with representatives from the Carter Center in Guyana on a pre-election assessment mission, ahead of the 2025 Regional and General Elections. Seated with the President are Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs, Gail Teixeira; Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall SC.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on July 29, 2021

UNITED STATES | Democracy Under Siege: Texas Republicans Deploy Police to Monitor Democratic State Representatives

The scene inside the Texas State Capitol on Monday was dystopian: Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier from Fort Worth, an elected official representing her constituents, found herself essentially imprisoned within...

WiredJA News Team News 19 August 2025

PNP President Mark Golding on his way to the nomination centre on Monday to confirm his candidacy.

JAMAICA | The Great Political Comeback? Mark Golding and the PNP Seem to be Rising from the Ashes

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 18, 2025 - A political earthquake is shaking Jamaica, and the tremors are spelling opportunities for the People's National Party. In the heat of Jamaica's political...

WiredJA News Team News 18 August 2025

Regional Nursing Body Chair Nester Edwards (right) Outlines CARICOM nursing strategy

BARBADOS | Nursing the Future: CARICOM's Bold Vision for Healthcare Excellence

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, August 15, 2025 - When nursing leaders from across the Caribbean gathered in Barbados this August for the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Regional Nursing Body, they...

WiredJA News Team News 17 August 2025

Dini ya Msambwa followers sing a religious song on the grounds of the Kapenguria Museum in northwestern Kenya, a former colonial prison where members of their movement were detained in the 1950s. Chloé Josse-Durand.

AFRICA | Kenya’s 1950 Kolloa massacre: Britain won’t own up to its colonial violence but communities need closure

In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of colonial violence in Kenya. Armed soldiers killed at least 29 civilian...

WiredJA News Team News 17 August 2025

Roy Rayon at last year's Jamaica Fest Celebrations in Washington DC

DIASPORA | Embassy of Jamaica to Stage Jamaica Fest: Cultural Celebration in Maryland

Washington DC August 15, 2025 - When the Jamaican Embassy stages its third annual Jamaica Fest on August 17, Veterans Plaza in Silver Spring will once again transform into what...

WiredJA News Team News 16 August 2025

Dr Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General; Prime Minister of Jamaica Dr Andrew Holness, Chair, CARICOM ; Dr Terrance Michael Drew, Prime Minister, Saint Kitts and Nevis; H.E.Laurent Saint-Cyr, President-Counsellor of the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Haiti .

CARICOM's Shameful Silence as Washington Tests Imperial Tactics on Haiti

While CARICOM stands by watching, the U.S. uses their own member state as a laboratory for extraterritorial overreach that will soon target them all The federal indictment of Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier...

WiredJA News Team News 15 August 2025

CUBA | Medical Diplomacy Under Fire: How Washington's War on Cuban Doctors Threatens Caribbean Healthcare

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's escalating campaign against Cuban medical missions reveals a dangerous willingness to weaponize healthcare in pursuit of regime change. On August 13, US Secretary of State...

WiredJA News Team News 14 August 2025

CARICOM Draws Line in Sand Over Gaza: Caribbean Bloc Condemns Israeli Seizure as "De Facto Annexation"

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 13, 2025 - In a forceful statement that positions the Caribbean Community as an unwavering voice for international law, CARICOM's Council for Foreign and Community Relations...

WiredJA News Team News 14 August 2025

People's National Party President Mark Golding at the launch of the party's manifesto at the Pegasus Hotel on Tuesday August 12, 2025 .

JAMAICA | PNP Unveils "Mission Jamaica Love" Manifesto: A Bold Counter-Narrative One Day After Election Call

Opposition party positions itself as "government-in-waiting" with comprehensive 10-pillar plan for national transformation KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 13, 2025 - The timing could not have been more deliberate. Less than 24 hours...

WiredJA News Team News 13 August 2025

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