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WiredJA News Team News 10 July 2025

JAMAICA Scrambles as Trump's Tariff Hammer Falls on Caribbean Trade

MONTEGO BAY, July 9, 2025 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness finds himself fighting an uphill battle to salvage four decades of preferential trade relations as Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs threaten to shatter the Caribbean's economic lifeline to America.

WiredJA News Team News 10 July 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday March 26.

Barbados PM Mia Mottley converses with Jamaica's PM Andrew Holness at the CARICOM meeting in Montego Bay July 7, 2025

CARIBBEAN | Jamaica and Barbados Finally Break Free from EU's Financial Purgatory

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 9, 2025 - After languishing for over a year in financial limbo despite full compliance with international standards, Jamaica and Barbados have finally been freed from...

WiredJA News Team News 10 July 2025

JAMAICA| Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop, Legal Trailblazer Takes the Commonwealth Stage

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 9, 2025 - Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop's ascension to the presidency of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal represents more than just another diplomatic appointment—it marks the culmination of...

WiredJA News Team News 10 July 2025

JAMAICA Becomes 13th CARICOM Nation to Join Afreximbank's US$3 Billion Regional Initiative

MONTEGO BAY, JULY 8, 2025 - In the elegant setting of Half Moon, Rose Hall, as Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Afreximbank President Benedict Oramah witnessed the memorandum of understanding...

WiredJA News Team News 09 July 2025

Former CARICOM Chair, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley

CARICOM | Mottley's Brutal Truth: The World Has Failed Haiti, and the Caribbean Pays the Price

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 7, 2025 - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley delivered a scorching indictment of global hypocrisy at CARICOM's 49th summit, declaring with unflinching clarity: "The world really...

WiredJA News Team News 08 July 2025

President John Dramani Mahama has inherited an economic minefield

AFRICA | Ghana's Economic Reckoning: New President Inherits IMF Bailout Mess

WASHINGTON DC, July 7, 2025 - Ghana's freshly minted President John Mahama has inherited an economic minefield wrapped in an IMF lifeline. The International Monetary Fund announced Monday the release...

WiredJA News Team News 07 July 2025

Newly Installed President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, His Hon. Winston Anderson

CARICOM | Jamaican Jurist Winston Anderson installed as President of Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 7, 2025 - When Mr. Justice Winston Anderson was sworn in as the Caribbean Court of Justice's fourth president on Sunday, he inherited more than just...

WiredJA News Team News 07 July 2025

JAMAICA'S Digital Entanglement with Israeli Intelligence Operations

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 6, 2025 - Jamaica has significantly deepened its cybersecurity partnerships with Israel throughout 2024-2025, marked by a J$4-billion ELTA Systems contract, high-level diplomatic visits, and ongoing...

WiredJA News Team News 06 July 2025

Netanyahu Welcomes PM Andrew Holness In First Visit By A Jamaican Leader To Israel

JAMAICA'S Compromised Leadership in CARICOM on Gaza Crisis

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 6, 2025 - More than 40 Caribbean civil society organizations have issued an unprecedented demand for CARICOM to call for international arms embargoes and urge member...

WiredJA News Team News 06 July 2025

Bodies of the 21 victims of the Abu Rayya family, died in a fire that ripped through their house in Jabalia camp [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

JAMAICA | Caribbean Court Challenge Throws Gaza Crisis Into CARICOM Summit Spotlight

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 5, 2025 - Just hours before Caribbean leaders descend on Montego Bay for a most significant regional summit, a groundbreaking legal challenge in Barbados threatens to...

WiredJA News Team News 05 July 2025

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