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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 October 2025

CARIBBEAN | Sally Carson's 1934 Novel of the Nazi Threat Warns the Caribbean About Democratic Collapse

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 20, 2025 - A few days ago, Charlotte Higgins recounts in The Guardian, an American acquaintance told her something chilling: "In my opinion, the US is in a very similar position to Germany in 1933-4. And we have to ask, could 1936, 1937, 1938 have been avoided? That's the point we are at."

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 October 2025

The Crooked Cross published in 1934 but offers a warning to our fragile democracy.

Veteran Guyanese Journalist and political commentator Adam Harris.

GUYANA | Adam’s notebook : Confusion reigns among Guyana's opposition parties

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 15, 2025 -All the political parties except the incumbent People’s Progressive Party went into the September 1, 2025 elections with the aim of toppling the government. They...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 October 2025

GUYANA | Workers Must Unite to Confront Rising Cost of Living and Political Indifference

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - October 16, 2025 - In what is now called the world’s richest and fastest-growing economy, the cost of living in Guyana is unbearable for the working class....

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 October 2025

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali and PNC leader Aubrey Norton (News Source Photo)

GUYANA | When Guyana's Historic Political Enemies Became Allies

Seventy years after Forbes Burnham walked away from Cheddi Jagan, their political heirs have embraced in a stunning realignment that rewrites Caribbean political history GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 13, 2025 - Forbes...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 14 October 2025

GUYANA | Adam Harris' Notebook: Removing Any Mention of Burnham

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 12, 2025 - The history of Guyana is being rewritten in a manner that would make future generations believe that only the People’s Progressive Party ever led...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 13 October 2025

JAMAICA | How Trump’s Caribbean Power Play is Shattering Our Zone of Peace

“Jamaica's diplomatic dilemma is a precarious balancing act between loyalty to long-standing allies and the lure of economic benefits from emerging global powers.” MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 11, 2025 - For...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 11 October 2025

JAMAICA'S Food Security Crisis: When Demographic Winter Meets Farm-Workers Drought

Calvin G. Brown MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 8, 2025 - As Jamaica's fertility plummets and farmland lies fallow, 1.3 million displaced Haitians seek safety—could CARICOM solidarity offer a lifeline to both...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 October 2025

O. Dave Allen, a Community Advocate & Social Commentator

JAMAICA'S Demographic Winter: A Crisis Ignored

By O. Dave Allen A Nation on the Brink of Population Extinction MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 7, 2025 - In a twist of demographic irony, Jamaica—celebrated land of 'wood and water', big bamboos...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 October 2025

GUYANA Cannot Reform Its Constitution in Ignorance

If Guyana is to genuinely reform its Constitution, we must first confront a hard truth: we cannot change what we do not understand. We should be grateful for the candid admission...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 06 October 2025

JAMAICA | O. Dave Allen Calls for Accountability and a New Social Contract

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 4, 2025 - I wish to make it absolutely clear that I did not vote for the Andrew Holness administration. I am a card-carrying member of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 October 2025

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 80th session on Sept. 26, 2025. UN Photo/Loey Felipe

CARICOM | Kamla’s ‘Sankey’: Trinidad's Dangerous Departure from CARICOM Unity

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 1, 2025 - There's a moment at every family gathering when one relative says something so jarring that the room falls silent. That's precisely what happened at...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 01 October 2025

Dr Aujae Dixon – the Interdicted medical Doctor employed to SRHA who challenged the Jamaica Labour Party’s Robert Nesta Morgan in Clarendon North Central on September 3, 2025

JAMAICA | The Doctor's Dilemma: When When the Pot Calls the Kettle Black

Jamaica's interdiction of Dr. Aujae Dixon exposes the constitutional rot at the heart of our public service regulations By WiredJa Caribbean Correspondent In a democracy, the sight of a doctor facing disciplinary...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 September 2025

Roysdale Forde has Condemned Anil Nandlal's comments about national hero, Cuffy.

GUYANA | Condemning AG Nandlall's Insensitive Remarks - Disrespecting our National Identity

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 2025 - In a country where we are still fighting to ensure that all Guyanese have an equal stake in our national heritage, it is particularly disheartening...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 September 2025

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