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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | Strangers in Paradise: The Urgent Need to Safeguard Jamaican Land for Jamaicans

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 26, 2025 - By O Dave Allen - Someone once described Hanalei Bay in Hawaii as heaven on Earth — but today, the descendants of Native Hawaiians can barely afford to live there. Their ancestral lands have been sold off, piece by piece, to wealthy outsiders. Now, the same script is playing out in Jamaica.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | Strangers in Paradise: The Urgent Need to Safeguard Jamaican Land for Jamaicans

ANTIGUA | Return to Sender ! Why Should We Foot these Legal Bills?

ST JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda, May 26, 2025 - By D. Gisele Isaac - Yesterday, on a peaceful Sunday, the first news I encountered on social media was an ABS-TV...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 أيار 2025

GHANA | While Africa Honors Nkrumah, Ghana Honors Kotoka, His Betrayer

ACCRA, Ghana, May 25, 2025- Calvin G. Brown— Every visitor to Ghana's capital is greeted by a profound historical betrayal. The gleaming sign at Kotoka International Airport bears the name...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 أيار 2025

ANTIGUA | The High Cost of Dissent: When Fear of Consequences Muzzles Cabinet

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, May 23, 2025 - D.Gisele Isaac | We used to wonder how a Cabinet comprised of big, hardbacked men, almost exclusively, could sit silently and just allow...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 24 أيار 2025

GUYANA | A Decade Later, Still No Justice: UN’s Decade for People of African Descent Must Move from Paper to Action

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 18, 2025 - Lincoln Lewis - Ten years after the United Nations (UN) launched the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024), the lives of African...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | How Cuban Medicine Bridged the Gap in Jamaican Healthcare

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 16, 2025 - Darkness was closing in, frame by frame. As a writer and photojournalist whose livelihood depends on capturing the world through both words and...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | Revolutionizing Education: A National Call for STEM Schools and Technological Transformation

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 14, 2025 - By O. Dave Allen - Over the years, Jamaica’s youth have demonstrated extraordinary talent in robotics, engineering, and digital innovation.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 أيار 2025

GUYANA | The Time for Change Is Not Tomorrow—It Is Now !

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 7, 2025 - In recent days, we have mourned the loss of citizens whose constitutional right to life was brutally violated. Yet, even in grief, a powerful...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 09 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | The $2.5 Billion Question: Why Jamaica Must Pivot to African Economic Partnership

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 5, 2025 - by O Dave Allen - The ghost of Marcus Garvey haunts Jamaica's economic corridors. A century after the national hero dared to stitch...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 05 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | GREEN GOLD ABANDONED: Is Jamaica Squandering its Bamboo Lifeline Amidst a Deepening Food Crisis?

KINGSTON, Jamaica May 3, 2025- By Lenworth Fulton - As more than half of Jamaicans go to bed hungry, an abundant natural resource with the potential to revolutionize local food...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 03 أيار 2025

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA | Naked under the (spread)sheet By D.Gisele Isaac

ST. JOHN, Antigua - April 30, 2025 - By D.Gisele Isaac - They’ve been trying too hard, the prime minister and his minions, and one has to wonder why transparent...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 30 نيسان/أبريل 2025

AFRICA | Death Mark: US Military Sets Sights on Burkina Faso's Traoré

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 28, 2025 - In a remarkable display of Pan-African solidarity, as Donald Trump's administration moves to deport people of color from the Americas and Africa, Captain...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 نيسان/أبريل 2025

JAMAICA | Reform of the Constitution: A Glorious Opportunity Says AJ Nicholson

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 27, 2025 - By A. J. Nicholson - Prime Minister Andrew Holness' scarce venture into the constitutional reform arena has not been encouraging. Significantly, though, it can...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 27 نيسان/أبريل 2025

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ANTIGUA | Return to Sender ! Why Should We Foot these Legal Bills?

GHANA | While Africa Honors Nkrumah, Ghana Honors Kotoka, His Betrayer

ANTIGUA | The High Cost of Dissent: When Fear of Consequences Muzzles Cabinet

GUYANA | A Decade Later, Still No Justice: UN’s Decade for People of African Descent Must Move from Paper to Action

JAMAICA | How Cuban Medicine Bridged the Gap in Jamaican Healthcare

JAMAICA | Revolutionizing Education: A National Call for STEM Schools and Technological Transformation

GUYANA | The Time for Change Is Not Tomorrow—It Is Now !

JAMAICA | The $2.5 Billion Question: Why Jamaica Must Pivot to African Economic Partnership

JAMAICA | GREEN GOLD ABANDONED: Is Jamaica Squandering its Bamboo Lifeline Amidst a Deepening Food Crisis?

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA | Naked under the (spread)sheet By D.Gisele Isaac

AFRICA | Death Mark: US Military Sets Sights on Burkina Faso's Traoré

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