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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 16 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

JAMAICA | The Reform Agenda: No Safe Pair of Hands Minister Chuck?

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, December 16, 2025 - These are reflections on a prominent news item in The Jamaica Observer of Friday, December 5, titled: "(L)et's get it done", concerning an unimagined public proposition delivered by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 16 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

Former Attorney General and Justice Minister A. J. Nicholson

GUYANA | Guyanese Must Unite and Demand Action to Halt Rising Poverty

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, December 1, 2025 - Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank released its Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealing that an estimated 58% of...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 07 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to face the polls in 2027

CARIBBEAN | The Unfinished Business: Why Barbados May Be Cambridge Analytica's Next Caribbean Target

By Calvin G. Brown In October 2010, when a member of Strategic Communications Laboratories tried to pitch the opposition Barbados Labour Party, Alexander Nix's response to their rejection was succinct and...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 05 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

Community Development Activator and Social Commentator, O. Dave Allen

JAMAICA | Why Jamaica Must Remember Venezuela: Lessons for a Younger Generation Amid Rising Geopolitical Pressure

By O. Dave Allen MONTEGO BAY, DECEMBER 3, 2025 - As tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalate, Jamaica once again finds itself navigating the delicate waters of great-power competition....

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 03 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, one of world's longest serving democratic leaders defeated Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

ST. Vincent |Tired Fi' See Him Face: Democracy, Achievement, and the Gonsalves Paradox

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, November 29, 2025 - Thursday night's electoral results in St. Vincent and the Grenadines landed like a thunderclap across the Eastern Caribbean.

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 29 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2025

GUYANA | Blocked at Every Turn – The Struggle for African Economic Self‑Determination By Lincoln Lewis

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 23, 2025 - The African economy is in trouble not because Africans are lazy. It is not only chattel slavery that adversely impacted the African race, but...

Lincoln Lewis Op-Ed 26 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2025

Damage wreaked by Hurricane Mellisa in western Jamaica

JAMAICA | I've Seen Disaster in 40 Countries. What I Found in Western Jamaica Broke Me!

A UN disaster response veteran returns home to find devastation—and a relief effort divided by political lines I have managed disaster responses across 40 countries. I have walked through killing fields...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 16 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2025

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad Bissessar

Jamaica’s Diplomatic Silence: Why Our Prime Minister Refuses to Speak on Venezuela, Gaza, and Cuba

By O. Dave Allen Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the reactionary current Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who was sworn in on May 1, 2025, has has now exposed a familiar fault line...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 25 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

GUYANA | CARICOM Must Act Now to Defend Caribbean’s Sovereignty and Peace

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, October 20, 2025 - For generations, the Caribbean Sea has been upheld as a Zone of Peace. That is no accident. It was built by the conscious decisions...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 25 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

JAMAICA | Montego Bay’s Triple Strategy: Senate as Political Finishing School

By O. Dave Allen In politics, there are no coincidences—only calculations. The People’s National Party’s recent pattern in Montego Bay offers a case study in strategic renewal disguised as routine procedure....

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 23 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

Former Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte

JAMAICA | The Rise and Fall of Marlene Malahoo Forte: From The Court Bench to Parliamentary Backbench

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 21, 2025 - Marlene Malahoo Forte’s story is one of brilliance, ambition, and paradox. From her early days in rural Westmoreland to the heights of national...

O. Dave Allen Op-Ed 21 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

The Crooked Cross published in 1934 but offers a warning to our fragile democracy.

CARIBBEAN | Sally Carson's 1934 Novel of the Nazi Threat Warns the Caribbean About Democratic Collapse

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 20, 2025 - A few days ago, Charlotte Higgins recounts in The Guardian, an American acquaintance told her something chilling: "In my opinion, the US is in...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

Veteran Guyanese Journalist and political commentator Adam Harris.

GUYANA | Adam’s notebook : Confusion reigns among Guyana's opposition parties

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 15, 2025 -All the political parties except the incumbent People’s Progressive Party went into the September 1, 2025 elections with the aim of toppling the government. They...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 تشرين1/أكتوير 2025

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