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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 Jamaica. While thousands of citizens struggle to rebuild homes shattered by Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica Public Service Company has delivered its own storm surge—a 7 percent bill increase wrapped in explanations so vague they border on insult.

WiredJA News Team News 17 December 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ST. LUCIA | Pierre's Landslide and His Ominous Warning: "Foreign Entities" Threat

Historic re-election masks PM's sharp rebuke of social media "foreign entities" and democratic threats CASTRIES, St. Lucia — When Philip Joseph Pierre took his second consecutive Oath of Office on December...

Calvin G. Brown News 06 December 2025

CARICOM | Afreximbank-CARICOM Payment System Races Against Time as China Deploys Operational Alternative

As operational alternatives to dollar hegemony emerge, the window for genuine regional autonomy is rapidly closing MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, December 6, 2027 - When South Africa's Standard Bank became the first...

Calvin G. Brown News 06 December 2025

AFRICA | The US 'Dollar Wine': China's Payment System Opens New Front in Global Currency Wars

Standard Bank's CIPS integration signals accelerating de-dollarization across Africa, Caribbean, and Latin America MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, December 6, 2025 - The global financial order just shifted beneath Washington's feet, and most...

Calvin G. Brown News 06 December 2025

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

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

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

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

GUYANA | Presumtive Opposition Leader Mounts Constitutional Challenge to US Extradition

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

ST. LUCIA | Pierre's Landslide and His Ominous Warning: "Foreign Entities" Threat

CARICOM | Afreximbank-CARICOM Payment System Races Against Time as China Deploys Operational Alternative

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