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WiredJA News Team News 16 January 2026

CUBA | The Havana Requiem : Cuba receives remains of 32 troops killed by the US in the Venezuela Incursion

Cuba buries 32 soldiers killed in U.S. raid on Venezuela as Washington threatens to tighten the noose

HAVANA, Cuba |WiredJa Staff | January 15, 2026 — In the grey dawn of Thursday morning, Cuban soldiers in white gloves marched stiff-legged across the tarmac of José Martí International Airport, carrying urns draped in the Cuban flag.

WiredJA News Team News 16 January 2026

Cuba's military buries soldiers slain in US operation to capture Maduro. (Presidency of Cuba photo)

GUYANA | State Media Held to Account: Guyana Court Awards $10M in Defamation Case Against Government

Ruling exposes the dangerous gap between political privilege and state accountability GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 14, 2026 - The High Court of Guyana has delivered a pointed rebuke to the machinery of...

WiredJA News Team News 15 January 2026

United States President Donald Trump freezes immigrant visas from 75 countries, except Trinidad and Guyana.

CARICOM | America's Iron Curtain: Jamaica Frozen Out While Oil-Rich Neighbours Get a Pass

US indefinitely suspends immigrant visas for 11 CARICOM nations—but spares Trinidad and Guyana CARICOM, January 14, 2026 - The American Dream just got a "closed until further notice" sign slapped on...

WiredJA News Team News 14 January 2026

JAMAICA | UHWI Scandal Exposes Health Ministry’s Accountability Crisis

Shadow Minister says ministerial-appointed committee is “like a man on trial choosing his own jury” The University Hospital of the West Indies awarded fifty-one contracts worth $521 million without a single...

WiredJA News Team News 14 January 2026

Peoples National Party Member of Parliament Omar Newell

JAMAICA | PNP's Newell Tables Motion to Protect Jamaica's Power, Water, and Telecoms Networks

Opposition MP Omar Newell tables Private Member's Motion demanding critical infrastructure be treated as national security priority Every stolen transformer, every vandalized water main, every sabotaged telecommunications cable sends the same...

WiredJA News Team News 14 January 2026

Pamela Monroe-Ellis, Auditor General of Jamaica

JAMAICA | No procurement documents found for $521 million in contracts awarded by UHWI - Auditor General report

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 13, 2026 - Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has reported that of the $671 billion allocated to public health from 2019-20 to 2024-25, less than half was directed...

WiredJA News Team News 14 January 2026

JAMAICA | The Byles Effect: BOJ Steers Jamaica to Stronger Dollar After Melissa's Destruction

Jamaica's central bank defies post-hurricane economic gravity through disciplined monetary management The economic textbooks would have predicted collapse. A Category 5 hurricane inflicting damage exceeding 40 per cent of GDP. Agriculture...

WiredJA News Team News 13 January 2026

Jamaica's first female Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks Receives 2026 Golden Heart Award from Amanda Schumacher

JAMAICA | Trailblazer Honoured: Audrey Marks Receives 2026 Golden Heart Award

Jamaica's first female Ambassador to the United States among nine global diplomats recognized at Palm Beach gala WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, January 12, 2026 - Minister in the Office of the...

WiredJA News Team News 12 January 2026

CARIBBEAN | Cuba in the Crosshairs: No More Oil Or Money Going To Cuba, Trump Says

Just days after seizing Venezuela's leader, Washington turns its gaze—and threats—towards Havana By Calvin G. Brown | WiredJa MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, January 11, 2026 - The ink on Venezuela's forced capitulation has...

WiredJA News Team News 11 January 2026

Ministry of Health's advertisment for specialist nurses in the Diaspora

JAMAICA | Come Home to What? Jamaica's Diaspora Nurse Recruitment Masks a Healthcare System in Freefall

A glossy recruitment poster cannot hide a decade of institutional collapse, from Cornwall's $23.5 billion scandal to KPH's mould-infested operating theatres KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 9, 2026 — The Ministry of Health...

WiredJA News Team News 10 January 2026

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