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Lincoln Lewis Op-Ed 20 January 2025

GUYANA | GECOM Chair Claudette Singh must answer for Breakdown of our Electoral Democracy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 20, 2025 - We must question why the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), through its Chair, ret’d Justice Claudette Singh, announced at the 11th hour the agency’s claimed inability to enable a biometric system for the upcoming elections when it knew about the importance of this act more than five years ago.

Lincoln Lewis Op-Ed 20 January 2025

GUYANA | GECOM Chair Claudette Singh must answer for Breakdown of our Electoral Democracy

GUYANA | The Adam Notebook: Government cash grant is like the beads and mirrors Columbus brought

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 17, 2025- The poor never realise that they are poor. They may realise that they are hungry from time to time, or that their homes leak, or...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 January 2025

GUYANA | Don't Treat Maduro’s pronouncements lightly, nor ignore the Value of People Power

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 17, 2025- As a nation, we cannot continue to trivialise the growing threats to Guyana’s sovereignty under the leadership of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Time and again,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 January 2025

JAMAICA | Agricultural Hypocrisy: Fulton says Big Farmers Laugh while Small Farmers Face Agony

KINGSTON, Jamaica January 16, 2025 - In a move that has stirred controversy within Jamaica's agricultural sector, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rejected proposals for a new Agricultural Fund that...

Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 17 January 2025

JAMAICA | The Sweet Decline: Jamaica's Once-Mighty Sugar Industry Faces Existential Crisis

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 12, 2025 - Jamaica's sugar industry, once the cornerstone of colonial wealth and a dark symbol of slavery, now teeters on the brink of irrelevance. From commanding...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 14 January 2025

GUYANA | Ali’s Presidency:Political immaturity, Indecision, lack of Meaningful Progress

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 9, 2025 - Lincoln Lewis - President Irfaan Ali’s time in office has been marked by a series of disappointing failures. Far from asserting himself as the...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 11 January 2025

GUYANA | President Ali knoweth not that he knoweth not

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 4, 2025 - Resistance is man’s instinctive reaction to oppression and violation and must never be suppressed under any guise. Resistance is inherently protected in universal declarations,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 January 2025

BARBADOS | Preparing for Trump 2.0: A Caribbean Perspective on American Political Upheaval

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 30, 2024 - In the shadow of a potential second Trump presidency, the Caribbean nation of Barbados faces what former Foreign Service chief Peter Laurie calls an...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 30 December 2024

GUYANA | Jagdeo/Ali regime continues to attack African Guyanese economic dignity and well-being

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 22, 2024 - The passage last Wednesday of the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes (Amendment) Bill has nefarious intent. Fresh in the minds of Guyanese is...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 December 2024

JAMAICA | Justice Only For The Wealthy: A Solomonic Constitutional Tabling?

KINGSTON. Jamaica, December 22, 2024 - The prevailing circumstances and the clear motives behind the Government's recent introduction of a bill in Parliament ostensibly to initiate the process of abandoning...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 22 December 2024

ANTIGUA | Analysis: Parliamentary Crisis in Antigua and Barbuda's Budget Debate

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, December 18, 2024 - As one who is familiar with the presentation of national budgets in many of the British-influenced countries across the Caribbean, I was mortified...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 December 2024

GUYANA | Instead of wasting time attacking me hold your leader accountable

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 2024 - In a press statement- made by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) last Tuesday, issue was taken with Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s threat that...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 December 2024

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Agricultural Maze: Colonial Legacy, Crumbling Roads, and the Fight for Food Security

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 15, 2024 - The sprawling network of 4,000 kilometers of farm roads in Jamaica serves as the lifeline for over 300,000 small farmers, yet only 12% of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 December 2024

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GUYANA | The Adam Notebook: Government cash grant is like the beads and mirrors Columbus brought

GUYANA | Don't Treat Maduro’s pronouncements lightly, nor ignore the Value of People Power

JAMAICA | Agricultural Hypocrisy: Fulton says Big Farmers Laugh while Small Farmers Face Agony

JAMAICA | The Sweet Decline: Jamaica's Once-Mighty Sugar Industry Faces Existential Crisis

GUYANA | Ali’s Presidency:Political immaturity, Indecision, lack of Meaningful Progress

GUYANA | President Ali knoweth not that he knoweth not

BARBADOS | Preparing for Trump 2.0: A Caribbean Perspective on American Political Upheaval

GUYANA | Jagdeo/Ali regime continues to attack African Guyanese economic dignity and well-being

JAMAICA | Justice Only For The Wealthy: A Solomonic Constitutional Tabling?

ANTIGUA | Analysis: Parliamentary Crisis in Antigua and Barbuda's Budget Debate

GUYANA | Instead of wasting time attacking me hold your leader accountable

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Agricultural Maze: Colonial Legacy, Crumbling Roads, and the Fight for Food Security

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