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WiredJA News Team News 04 September 2026

GUYANA | Kojo McPherson: The Enslaved African Who Bought Plantations and Built a Legacy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Village Voice, September 4, 2026 - They were supposed to leave slavery with freedom—but little else. No land. No inherited wealth. No compensation for generations of forced labour. No guarantee that freedom would bring economic independence.

WiredJA News Team News 04 September 2026

GUYANA | Kojo McPherson: The Enslaved African Who Bought Plantations and Built a Legacy

CARIBBEAN | Why The Africa-Caribbean Air Bridge Skipped Jamaica

Six rotations, one filing, and a silence. The corridor landed in Bridgetown — and Kingston was never on the manifest. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, September 1, 2026 - The arithmetic that killed...

WiredJA News Team News 01 September 2026

JAMAICA'S TOURISM | Priced Off The Island

Jamaica's tourism corridor is the Caribbean's worst performer — and the airlift maths explains whyIn May, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett put Spirit Airlines' collapse at just under three per cent...

WiredJA News Team News 29 August 2026

Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism and Linkages, Eastern Hanover MP Andrea Purkiss

Jamaica | Purkiss Demands Answers as Airfares Bite and Arrivals Slide

Opposition tourism spokesperson says Bartlett made light of Spirit Airlines' collapse — and the June figures now tell a different storyEast Hanover MP Andrea Purkiss is calling on Tourism Minister...

WiredJA News Team News 29 August 2026

JAMAICA | Caribbean Airlines: A Stake, But No Seats

Kingston holds just under twelve per cent of a regional carrier that quit the Jamaica–Fort Lauderdale route eleven months before fares reached US$3,744 — and has never put a dollar...

WiredJA News Team News 28 August 2026

Former Prime Ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga

JAMAICA | Washington's War on Michael Manley: Option No. 1 Was Edward Seaga

Declassified American files show the Central Intelligence Agency put a price on Jamaica's opposition party and sent the proposal to the White House. The most damaging detail is not that...

WiredJA News Team News 27 August 2026

Caribbean people have been travelling north to work and sending the money home since before the Panama Canal was cut. Jamaica alone recorded US$3.49 billion in remittance inflows in 2025.

CARICOM | No Permanent Friends: Washington’s Visa Ban and the Caribbean’s Costly Illusion

A Manhattan judge has struck down the Trump administration’s blanket suspension of immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries — eleven of them CARICOM member states. The reprieve came from...

WiredJA News Team News 26 August 2026

JAMAICA | Why a Ghanaian Nurse Come to Jamaica and a Jamaican Nurse Takes a Flight

Jamaica advertises a registered nurse post at about US$1,705 a month. That is roughly double what a Ghanaian specialist earns at home, and a fifth of what New York pays....

WiredJA News Team News 25 August 2026

CARIBBEAN | Exporting a Shortage: Why Ghana’s Health Service Cannot Bear the Caribbean’s Cuban Reckoning

Washington forced the Cuban medical brigades out, and Caribbean governments turned to Accra. But Ghana is not sending nurses it can spare — and Jamaica, which has supplied Britain and...

WiredJA News Team News 25 August 2026

New Governor of Bank of Jamaica Dr. R. Brian Langrin

JAMAICA | Langrin's Inheritance: A Steady Rate, a Rising Price Line, and an Island Still Digging Out

Two days into the job, Jamaica’s new central bank Governor delivered an MPC decision — and set out the terms on which he intends to be judged. KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 22,...

WiredJA News Team News 24 August 2026

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