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WiredJA News Team News 27 June 2025

AFRICA | Africa-Caribbean Air links and Trade: All Talk, Very Little Substance

ABUJA, Nigeria, June 27, 2025 - The Promise: Direct flights linking Africa and the Caribbean are imminent, heralding a new era of commerce. The Reality: After decades of similar promises, bilateral trade between two regions with a combined 1.7 billion people remains stuck at a measly $729 million annually.

WiredJA News Team News 27 June 2025

Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank)

The Most Honourable P.J. Patterson delivering a powerful keynote address at the Afreximbank meeting in Abjua, Nigeria.

AFRICA | Patterson Calls for Africa-Caribbean Economic Revolution at Afreximbank Annual Meeting

ABUJA, Nigeria – June 25, 2025 –In the grand halls of Abuja, where African leaders gathered for Afreximbank's 32nd Annual Meeting, Jamaica's longest-serving Prime Minister P.J. Patterson delivered a stirring...

WiredJA News Team News 26 June 2025

South West Clarendon MP, Lothan Cousins, Shadow Minister of Land

JAMAICA | Opposition Unveils Ambitious Land Reform Plan to Tackle Jamaica's Housing Crisis

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 25, 2025 - In a bold policy intervention that could reshape Jamaica's approach to land ownership, South West Clarendon MP and Opposition Shadow Minister of Land Lothan...

WiredJA News Team News 25 June 2025

PNP President and Opposition Leader Mark Golding

Jamaica | Neither Holness Nor Golding Should Take Comfort in Anderson Poll findings

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 23, 2025 - In the mercurial world of Jamaican politics, where fortunes can shift as quickly as Caribbean weather patterns, the latest polling data reveals a sobering...

WiredJA News Team News 23 June 2025

Leader of the APNU, Aubrey Norton and AFC Leader, attorney Nigel Hughes.

GUYANA | Coalition Dreams Turn to Political Nightmare as AFC Leader Hughes Abandons APNU Talks

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 21, 2025 - In a stunning admission of political failure, Alliance for Change (AFC) leader Nigel Hughes has definitively slammed the door on any future coalition discussions...

WiredJA News Team News 21 June 2025

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

CUBA Condemns Israel's Military Action Against Iran, Warns of Nuclear Risks

HAVANA, June 19, 2025 — Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strongly worded statement Thursday condemning Israel's ongoing military operations against Iran and warning of potentially catastrophic consequences if...

WiredJA News Team News 21 June 2025

GUYANA | High Court Delivers Crushing Blow to Guyana's Criminal Defamation Laws

In a scathing judgment that exposes the lengths to which Guyana's government will go to silence overseas critics, the High Court has declared criminal defamation laws unconstitutional and ordered the...

WiredJA News Team News 20 June 2025

Rikers Island hosts correctional facilities and houses designated and suspected terrorists among other individuals incarcerated there.

JAMAICA | Caribbean Immigrants Relieved as Court Rebukes Adams/Trump alleged Riker's ICE deal

NEW YORK, New York, June 20, 2025 - Mayor Eric Adams' embattled administration suffered another crushing legal defeat Friday when Judge Mary Rosado issued a preliminary injunction that will extend...

WiredJA News Team News 20 June 2025

Prime Minister Andrew Holness for the Governing JLP and Opposition Leader Mark Golding President of the PNP

JAMAICA | Political Tribalism Paralyzes Jamaica as Nation Heads to Historic Election

KINGSTON, Jamaica June 20, 2025 - Jamaica stands at a crossroads of democratic dysfunction, where political tribalism has so thoroughly poisoned public discourse that citizens can no longer objectively assess...

WiredJA News Team News 20 June 2025

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Rep to the OAS, Major Gen. (Rtd) Anthony Anderson presents his credentials to the Secretary General of the OAS, H. E. Albert Ramdin on June 18. At left is Assistant Secretary General , Amb Nestor Mendez. | Derrick Scott Photo.

UNITED STATES | Jamaica's New Ambassador Anthony Anderson Takes on Caribbean's Mounting Crisis

WASHINGTON, DC, June 19, 2025 - In a region where murder rates have soared to alarming heights and gun violence threatens democratic processes, Jamaica's choice of ambassador speaks volumes about...

Calvin G. Brown News 20 June 2025

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