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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 July 2026

JAMAICA THE BAIT, CUBA THE PRIZE

Kari Lake Comes With the Big Stick as China’s Belt and Road Tightens Its Grip

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 28, 2026 - By O. Dave Allen - Jamaica must not exchange one dependency for another. Its strongest defence is a deliberate economic turn toward Africa and the wider Global South.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 July 2026

US President Donald Trump has nominated Kari Lake to serve as the US ambassador to Jamaica following her tumultuous tenure at the helm of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio

CARIBBEAN | Enemies of Civilization: The New McCarthyism Comes for the Caribbean

When Washington summoned 66 nations to hear the political left branded a terrorist threat, it was not Russia or China cast as the ideological arch-villain — it was Cuba, an...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 24 July 2026

Sir Garfield Sobers of Barbados, a Caribbean Hero

SPORTS | OP ED| Sir Garfield Sobers: Cricket, Liberation, and the Caribbean Imagination

Sir Garfield Sobers at the crease during his prime years. For millions across the Caribbean, his confident stride, raised collar, and masterful batting became symbols of Black excellence, Caribbean pride,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 22 July 2026

GUYANA | Constitutional Reform Begins with Constitutional Compliance

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, July 12, 2026 - By Lincoln Lewis - In light of the government’s recent announcement that it is proceeding with constitutional reform, I am compelled to repeat a...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 19 July 2026

Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, A. J. Nicholson

JAMAICA | INDEPENDENT JAMAICA'S DERAILED CONSTITUTIONAL JOURNEY

Lamentably, as Jamaicans prepare to mark the 64th anniversary along the independence journey, candid questions loom concerning how ill-judged steps taken by some of their leaders have landed them into...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 19 July 2026

BARBADOS | ‘The Greatest Cricketer on Earth or Mars’: A Tribute to Sir Garfield Sobers

Sir Garfield Sobers — cricket’s greatest all-rounder and a National Hero of Barbados — died on Friday at his home in Barbados, aged 89, eleven days short of his 90th...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 July 2026

Western Kingston MP Desmond McKenzie washes his face after being pepper sprayed by the polic e in West Kingston on Tuesday.

JAMAICA | ‘Dem Pepper-Spray Desmond’: Will the King of West Kingston Keep His Crown?

One burst of pepper spray, a bottle of milk and a mocking street chorus have done what no election defeat ever managed — placed the throne of Jamaica’s most storied...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 July 2026

JAMAICA | Out of Many, But Whose One People?

Jamaica’s motto celebrates a union of peoples. But the island’s racial arithmetic — and the coercion behind so much of it — tells a more uncomfortable story about which mixtures...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 10 July 2026

Former British Home Secretary, Suella Braverman

CARIBBEAN |The Empire Sends an Invoice: Braverman’s Grotesque Inversion of the Reparations Debate

Britain’s former Home Secretary wants the descendants of the enslaved to compensate the empire that grew rich off their ancestors’ stolen labour. History — and the Treasury’s own books —...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 06 July 2026

Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle, leader of the United Progressive Party

Antigua | The TCN Trap: What Antigua’s Deportee White Paper Says — and What It Dares Not Ask

The Browne administration’s White Paper on receiving US deportees is candid about the cost and precise about the conditions — but silent on the only question that matters. The Opposition...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 03 July 2026

EDUCATION | From Commitment to Compliance: Strengthening Legal Protection for Women and Children Across the Caribbean By Dr. Sanett Hanniford

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, July 1, 2026 - By Dr. Sanett Hanniford| The Caribbean has made commendable progress in establishing legal protections for women and children. Yet, despite modern legislation and international commitments,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 02 July 2026

JAMAICA | The Bleating of the Sheep

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 1, 2026 - By O. Dave Allen | The government insists it has acted transparently. But what, then, is this bleating of sheep that we hear?...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 01 July 2026

JAMAICA | The $5 Billion Question: Why Jamaica Must Pivot to Africa Before the Next Global Storm

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, June 27, 2026 | By O. Dave Allen - One year ago, in these pages, I posed what I called “The $2.5 Billion Question.” I argued that Jamaica...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 27 June 2026

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