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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 September 2025

JAMAICA | The Victory That Whispers: Jamaica's 2025 Electoral Enigma

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 7, 2025 - Victory celebrations are supposed to roar. They're meant to paint the streets green with jubilant motorcades, fill the air with horns and dancehall, and see the symbolic green bushes sweeping away the orange remnants of the opposition.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 September 2025

Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party Andrew Holness.

PNP President and Opposition Leader Mark Golding presented his Jamaican birth certificate to Prime Minister Andrew Holness

JAMAICA | What Choices have Holness made over Golding in Defining his Jamaican Citizenship

When constitutional law meets campaign creativity, democracy gets interesting—and dangerous Picture this: You're in a leadership debate, your opponent dramatically whips out his birth certificate like a citizenship reality show, and...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 01 September 2025

GUYANA | The Toll-Free Bridge That Chains Our Children to Debt

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Friday, August 29, 2025 - In the annals of political history, few spectacles rival the farce unfolding in Guyana today—a regime drunk on oil money, peddling "development" as...

Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, MP Op-Ed 29 August 2025

GUYANA | Not in My Name-Lennox Craig and PM Mark Phillips Do Not Represent Black Pride Says Lincoln Lewis

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 27, 2025 - I stand here today, boiling with righteous fury, to declare not in my name, not in the name of the African race, not in...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 August 2025

Former Senator Janice Allen, PNP Candidate for Member of Parliament in Central St. James

JAMAICA | Janice Allen: A Daughter of Montego Bay, Redefining Political Leadership

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 26, 2025 - Every generation produces leaders who embody the spirit of their time. For Montego Bay and Jamaica today, former senator Janice Allen stands as...

Dave O Welsh Op-Ed 27 August 2025

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte and Gleaner columnist The Reverend Peter Espeut (Gleaner Photo)

JAMAICA | Democratic Erosion: Why Peter Espeut's Warning About JLP's Third Term Should Alarm Every Jamaican

Peter Espeut's devastating analysis reveals how the JLP's constitutional changes mirror authoritarian playbooks worldwide MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 23, 2025 - When sociologist Peter Espeut penned his blistering analysis in Thursday's...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 23 August 2025

Dr Horace Anthony Chang, Member of Parliament for North West St. James since 2007

JAMAICA| Dr. Horace Chang, Babylon, Your Kingdom Is Falling ! Says O' Dave Allen

MONTEGO BAY, August 18, 2025 - For more than two decades, Dr. Horace Chang has ruled St. James North Western like a political fortress. General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 August 2025

GUYANA must be told, the Truth, the Whole Truth about the Mohammeds and Venezuela

The integrity of a nation’s government rests on its unwavering commitment to truth, particularly in matters of national security and public trust. If, as credible suspicions suggest, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic...

By Roysdale Forde S.C. Op-Ed 17 August 2025

JAMAICA | Infant Stars: The Hidden Costs of Digital Fame

On platforms like TikTok, a troubling global fad is taking root: parents turning their infants into public entertainers — for viral laughs, shock value, or even profit. Many clips show...

Cordel Green Op-Ed 15 August 2025

JAMAICA | Caribbean Airlines: How Jamaica Lost Its Sky

The billion-dollar blunder that handed Jamaica's aviation crown to foreign carriers MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 14, 2025 - The scene at Monday night's United National Congress meeting at Couva in Trinidad,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 14 August 2025

JAMAICA | Will Kingston Pirates Week Reveal the Truth About the Pirates of Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 134, 2025 - The recent announcement that October 30 to November 2 will be designated “Kingston Pirates Week” highlights why the teaching of Caribbean history should be...

Dr. Ahmed Reid Op-Ed 13 August 2025

Jimmy Cherizier, alias Barbecue, a former police officer who heads a gang coalition known as “G9 Family and Allies indicted by the United States

HAITI | The American Empire's Long Arm: How Haiti Became Washington's Latest Imperial Playground

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 13, 2025 - When the United States can indict foreign nationals in their own countries, designate them terrorists, and put bounties on their heads, who exactly is...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 13 August 2025

GUYANA |GECOM’s Cellphone Policy Threatens Ballot Secrecy, Undermines Democracy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 10, 2025 - The recent decision by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to allow voters to bring cellphones into voting booths is not just reckless.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 10 August 2025

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