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Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 23 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Labor Pains: Jamaica's Agricultural and Tourism Sectors at the Crossroads

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 23, 2024 - By LenworthThe crisis in Jamaican agriculture extends far beyond mere issues of financing, land availability, or government policy - at its heart lies a fundamental labor challenge that threatens to undermine the entire sector.

Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 23 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Labor Pains: Jamaica's Agricultural and Tourism Sectors at the Crossroads

GUYANA | The only thing missing from Ali’s Tuesday circus was the ringmaster

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 20, 2024 - President Irfaan Ali’s circus that opened at 5.30 a.m on Tuesday November 12, 2024 drew mixed reviews from the Guyanese public.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | We can achieve the system of governance demanded by our Constitution

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 13, 2024 - The Guyana Constitution in its preamble requires us to “Forge a system of governance that promotes concerted effort and broad-based participation in national decision-making...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 13 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

ANTIGUA| "She is not too bright, she’s Antiguan," says the foreign store owner

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, In the heart of St. John's, a disturbing encounter lays bare the persistent colonial attitudes that still plague Antigua and Barbuda. As dawn breaks over the capital,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | In Guyana's Oil Rich Economy, All must benefit, not just a few!

Today I return to the thrust of my article published in Village Voice News on 5th August 2022, captioned: “Preoccupation with handshake distracts from issues of good governance, rights and...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 05 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Its an All-Round Denial of Justice says A. J. Nicholson

KINGSTON, November 4, 2024 - It is decidedly unacceptable that denial of justice to the everyday Jamaican is unspeakably pervasive, coming as it does from so many different sources, from...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

Political Leader of the United Progressive Progressive, Jamale Pringle

ANTIGUA | A Panther Rising: Jamale Pringle and the Resurgent UPP

ST. JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda November 1, 2024 - In the dynimic landscape of Antiguan politics, the United Progressive Party (UPP) stands defiant—a political phoenix rising from the ashes of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 01 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | Immigrants continue to flock Guyana, we are still not prepared

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 20, 2024 - Guyana is now an established oil and gas producing country but there remains no system in place that will manage the influx of people,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

GUYANA | Prof. Clive Thomas is onto something… let’s not shy away from conversation on its feasibility

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 2024 -I remain wedded to Professor Clive Thomas’ proposal of US$5000 to each household, yearly, and again ask the nation to have a serious conversation around it,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 20 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

GUYANA | A Cash grant is a right of every citizen; we must fight not grovel for it.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 12, 2024 - The discriminatory approach to cash grant distribution must stop, forthwith. What the Jagdeo/Ali regime has done is taken a well-intentioned policy, initially articulated in...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 12 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

Jamale Pringle, the newly minted leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP)

ANTIGUA | Jamale Pringle: The Iceberg of Antiguan Politics

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, October 9, 2024 - In the turbulent waters of Antiguan politics, a new force has emerged, challenging the status quo and redefining leadership. Jamale Pringle, the newly...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 09 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

The Church Commissioners, who run the Church of England’s investments, Queen Anne’s Bounty. invested the rough equivalent of £440 million today in the slave trade, via the South Sea Company, between 1720 and 1740.

CULTURE | Church of England Asked to Get on with the Reparation Program (Part 3):

Toronto, Canada, October 7, 2024. - The Church of England's £7 million Reparatory Justice Program given to Barbados should not be considered reparations. Reparations involve more than just money –...

Cikiah Thomas and Isaac Saney, Op-Ed 08 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

Former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson speaks on efforts to merge the independence holiday with that of Emancipation Day.

JAMAICA | P.J. Patterson debunks efforts to merge the 'Emancipation Day' and 'Independence Day' Holidays.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 4, 2024 - The Private Sector Organization of Jamaica has again decided to make a proposal to the government to merge the country’s August 6 independence holiday,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 05 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

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