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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 كانون2/يناير 2026

VENEZUELA | 25 Times Oil, Zero Times Democracy: Trump's Own Words Expose Rationale For Venezuela's Invasion

WiredJa Analysis | January 4, 2026

At his Mar-a-Lago press conference on Saturday, Donald Trump referenced oil twenty-five times. He mentioned democracy zero times, elections, three times. He invoked drugs ten times. But Fentanyl — the synthetic opioid killing 70,000 Americans annually — not once.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 كانون2/يناير 2026

VENEZUELA | 25 Times Oil, Zero Times Democracy: Trump's Own Words Expose Rationale For Venezuela's Invasion

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...

Roysdale Forde SC Op-Ed 04 كانون2/يناير 2026

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 كانون2/يناير 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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

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 كانون1/ديسمبر 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 كانون1/ديسمبر 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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

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 كانون1/ديسمبر 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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

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 كانون1/ديسمبر 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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025

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 كانون1/ديسمبر 2025