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Roysdale Forde SC Op-Ed 04 January 2026

GUYANA | ‘The Betrayal Of the PPP/C Regime Against Guyanese’- Forde

By Roysdale Forde S.C.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana January 3, 2026 - In the shadow of Guyana’s burgeoning oil wealth, the incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government stands exposed as a regime more intent on consolidating power than safeguarding the sacred pillars of our democracy.

Roysdale Forde SC Op-Ed 04 January 2026

Attorney-at-Law, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde

GUYANA | The National Assembly Must Sit: Respecting the Constitution Is Non-Negotiable

GEORGETOWN, Guyana January 2, 2026- The Guyana Constitution must be allowed to function. Its relevance and application should be actively discussed, enabling the ventilation of diverse views to strengthen our...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 03 January 2026

GUYANA | Christmas in a Rich Guyana Feels Harder Than Ever

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 24, 2025 - Six years ago this month, when Guyana began producing oil, the nation looked to the future with hope and anticipation. From a small country...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 24 December 2025

Born around 1859 in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Alexander Bedward worked as a laborer on the Mona Estate before traveling to Panama in 1883 to work on the canal, where he experienced harsh conditions and racial wage discrimination.

JAMAICA | How Colonial Jamaica Silenced Alexander Bedward by Referring to him as “A Mad Man”

By O. Dave Allen When colonial authorities arrested Alexander Bedward in 1921 and declared him insane, they weren't diagnosing mental illness—they were executing a calculated strategy to destroy Jamaica's most powerful...

O Dave Allen Op-Ed 22 December 2025

GUYANA | Workers Bearing the Cost of Poverty and Political Exclusion

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 14, 2025 - The 2025 Inter-American Development Bank report on Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed statistics that many already knew, many...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 December 2025

GUYANA | Christmas in a Rich Guyana Feels Harder Than Ever

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 21, 2025 - Six years ago this month, when Guyana began producing oil, the nation looked to the future with hope and anticipation. From a small country...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 December 2025

United States forces ilegally seizing an oil tanker off the Venezuela coast after recent military buildup

CARICOM | Whither CARICOM? When Silence Becomes Complicity

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica December 21, 2025 - The bodies keep piling up in Caribbean waters—approximately 100 souls obliterated by American drone strikes, their trials conducted by algorithm, their executions carried...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 December 2025

CARICOM | Trump Targets Antigua and Dominica: When Double Standards Replace Diplomacy

Washington lectures small island nations about selling citizenship while running its own billion-dollar visa program, the hypocrisy isn't just glaring—it's insulting On December 16, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 17 December 2025

Former Attorney General and Justice Minister A. J. Nicholson

JAMAICA | The Reform Agenda: No Safe Pair of Hands Minister Chuck?

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, December 16, 2025 - These are reflections on a prominent news item in The Jamaica Observer of Friday, December 5, titled: "(L)et's get it done", concerning an unimagined public...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 16 December 2025

GUYANA | Guyanese Must Unite and Demand Action to Halt Rising Poverty

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, December 1, 2025 - Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank released its Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealing that an estimated 58% of...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 07 December 2025

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to face the polls in 2027

CARIBBEAN | The Unfinished Business: Why Barbados May Be Cambridge Analytica's Next Caribbean Target

By Calvin G. Brown In October 2010, when a member of Strategic Communications Laboratories tried to pitch the opposition Barbados Labour Party, Alexander Nix's response to their rejection was succinct and...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 05 December 2025

Community Development Activator and Social Commentator, O. Dave Allen

JAMAICA | Why Jamaica Must Remember Venezuela: Lessons for a Younger Generation Amid Rising Geopolitical Pressure

By O. Dave Allen MONTEGO BAY, DECEMBER 3, 2025 - As tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalate, Jamaica once again finds itself navigating the delicate waters of great-power competition....

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 03 December 2025

Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, one of world's longest serving democratic leaders defeated Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

ST. Vincent |Tired Fi' See Him Face: Democracy, Achievement, and the Gonsalves Paradox

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, November 29, 2025 - Thursday night's electoral results in St. Vincent and the Grenadines landed like a thunderclap across the Eastern Caribbean.

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 29 November 2025

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