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WiredJA News Team News 21 December 2025

ANTIGUA | Gaston Browne terminates medical partnership with Cuba - raises questions about U.S. pressure and healthcare system stability

Gaston Browne spent nine months defending Cuban doctors as the "core" of Caribbean healthcare. Then he sent them home without explanation, leaving the opposition to express the gratitude his government wouldn't.

ST JOHN'S ANTIGUA, December 20, 2025 - The last Cuban medical professionals departed Antigua and Barbuda in December 2025, ending a partnership that Prime Minister Gaston Browne had declared "fundamental" to his nation's healthcare just nine months earlier.

WiredJA News Team News 21 December 2025

ANTIGUA | Gaston Browne terminates medical partnership with Cuba - raises questions about U.S. pressure and healthcare system stability

Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle

ANTIGUA | Parliamentary Privilege as Political Weapon: Browne's Dangerous Play Against Pringle

When the nation's highest legislative chamber becomes a launching pad for criminal accusations, democracy itself is on trial ST JOHN’S ANTIGUA, DECEMBER 17, 2025 - The theater of Caribbean democracy faced...

WiredJA News Team News 17 December 2025

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne

JAMAICA | Blindsided: Trump's Visa Ban Exposes Caribbean Vulnerability to Presidential Whim

Antigua and Barbuda punished for problems it already fixed—revealing the futility of small-state compliance ST. JOHNS, Antigua, December 16, 2025 - There's a particular cruelty in being punished for sins you've...

WiredJA News Team News 17 December 2025

JAMAICA | Hurricane Victims Hit with 7% Power Bill Shock—Paulwell Wants JPS To Explain Why

Shadow Energy Minister demands transparency as utility's explanation for increase collapses under scrutiny KINGSTON, Jamaica – December 16, 2025 - The arithmetic of disaster relief has taken a cynical turn in...

WiredJA News Team News 17 December 2025

Shadow Minister for Tourism and Linkages, Ms Andrea Purkiss, MP for Hanover Eastern.

JAMAICA | The $600 Million Question: Who's Counting Jamaica's Forgotten Tourism Workers?

Shadow Tourism Minister Andrea Purkiss welcomes housing support but exposes glaring gap in government's recovery arithmetic MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, December 15, 2025 - Minister Edmund Bartlett stood before cameras announcing J$600...

WiredJA News Team News 16 December 2025

Hyatt Ziva in Rose Hall, St. James. Hyatt has extended the closure of seven of its eight hotels in Jamaica until November 1, 2026, pushing back an earlier reopening timeline that had targeted January 31, 2026

JAMAICA | Tourism Workers Face Year-Long Limbo as Hotels Delay Reopening

Shadow Minister Andrea Purkiss confronts Bartlett over extended closures that threaten thousands with economic catastrophe MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, December 15, 2025 - When Hurricane Melissa's winds finally died down, Jamaica's tourism...

WiredJA News Team News 15 December 2025

The tent connected to Opposition Leader and MP for the area, Jamale Pringle, at Morris Bay that was destroyed by the Develppment Control Authority allegedly upon the instructions of Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | Democracy by Demolition: When Political Threats Become State Action in Antigua

Three days after PM Browne's parliamentary threat, Opposition Leader's business property lies in ruins—and the message to dissenters couldn't be clearer ST. JOHNS, Antigua, December 11, 2025 - The backhoe arrived...

Calvin G. Brown News 11 December 2025

The first Lomé Convention was signed in Lomé, Togo, on February 28, 1975. Lomé is the capital city of Togo, which served as the location for negotiations and the formal signing of the agreement between the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.

JAMAICA | The Lomé Convention: Jamaica's PJ Patterson and Zambia's Vernon Mwaanga, The Last Two Standing

Of 46 signatories to the historic 1975 Lomé Convention, only two remain alive, while six died by execution. The distance between a conference room and a firing squad was shorter...

Calvin G. Brown News 11 December 2025

Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party that won 16 of the 65 parliamentary seats which makes him Opposition Leader Elect.

GUYANA | Presumtive Opposition Leader Mounts Constitutional Challenge to US Extradition

Legal filing argues 2009 amendments created "unconstitutional framework" that strips courts of power and citizens of rights Georgetown, Guyana, December 9, 2025 — In a 53-page constitutional challenge that reads like...

Calvin G. Brown News 09 December 2025

Prime Ministers Errol Barrow of Barbados, President Forbes Burnham of Guyana, Prime Minister Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago and Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica, gathered at Chaguaramas and told the United States and the Organization of American States exactly where they could file their Cuba embargo.

CARICOM | Empty Gestures or Genuine Solidarity: What CARICOM-CUBA Day Means in 2025

As the Caribbean commemorates 53 years of diplomatic courage, Jamaica's refusal of Cuban medical help exposes the hollowness of anniversary celebrations On December 8, 2025, Barbados will mark CARICOM-CUBA Day by...

Calvin G. Brown News 07 December 2025

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