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Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | How Cuban Medicine Bridged the Gap in Jamaican Healthcare

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 16, 2025 - Darkness was closing in, frame by frame. As a writer and photojournalist whose livelihood depends on capturing the world through both words and lens, the gradual failure of my vision wasn't just threatening my career—it was erasing my identity.

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 أيار 2025

Cuban Ambassador Fermín Gabriel Quiñones, Programme Coordinator Natasha Biggs and Dr. Mayra Chaveco, Head of the Cuban eye team observe the examination of a patient.

JAMAICA | Revolutionizing Education: A National Call for STEM Schools and Technological Transformation

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 14, 2025 - By O. Dave Allen - Over the years, Jamaica’s youth have demonstrated extraordinary talent in robotics, engineering, and digital innovation.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 أيار 2025

GUYANA | The Time for Change Is Not Tomorrow—It Is Now !

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 7, 2025 - In recent days, we have mourned the loss of citizens whose constitutional right to life was brutally violated. Yet, even in grief, a powerful...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 09 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | The $2.5 Billion Question: Why Jamaica Must Pivot to African Economic Partnership

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 5, 2025 - by O Dave Allen - The ghost of Marcus Garvey haunts Jamaica's economic corridors. A century after the national hero dared to stitch...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 05 أيار 2025

JAMAICA | GREEN GOLD ABANDONED: Is Jamaica Squandering its Bamboo Lifeline Amidst a Deepening Food Crisis?

KINGSTON, Jamaica May 3, 2025- By Lenworth Fulton - As more than half of Jamaicans go to bed hungry, an abundant natural resource with the potential to revolutionize local food...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 03 أيار 2025

Dame Gisele Isaac, former Speaker of the House and Chair of the United Progressive Party

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA | Naked under the (spread)sheet By D.Gisele Isaac

ST. JOHN, Antigua - April 30, 2025 - By D.Gisele Isaac - They’ve been trying too hard, the prime minister and his minions, and one has to wonder why transparent...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 30 نيسان/أبريل 2025

Captain Ibrahim Traoré—the leader of Burkina Faso

AFRICA | Death Mark: US Military Sets Sights on Burkina Faso's Traoré

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 28, 2025 - In a remarkable display of Pan-African solidarity, as Donald Trump's administration moves to deport people of color from the Americas and Africa, Captain...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 28 نيسان/أبريل 2025

JAMAICA | Reform of the Constitution: A Glorious Opportunity Says AJ Nicholson

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 27, 2025 - By A. J. Nicholson - Prime Minister Andrew Holness' scarce venture into the constitutional reform arena has not been encouraging. Significantly, though, it can...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 27 نيسان/أبريل 2025

Former president of the Jamaica Agriculture Society, Lenworth Fulton

JAMAICA | Why Housing Developments Must Make Room for Food Security

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 26, 2025 - By Lenworth Fulton - The asphalt and concrete spreads like a dark tide across Jamaica's once-fertile lands, swallowing acre after acre of soil that...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 نيسان/أبريل 2025

JAMAICA | Fractured Foundations: The Power Struggle Threatening to Tear the JLP Apart

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 25, 2025 - A quiet civil war is brewing within the Jamaica Labour Party, revealing deep fissures that could reshape the political landscape.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 نيسان/أبريل 2025

GUYANA | Easter’s True Message: Unity, Redemption, and the Call for Change

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 25, 2025 - As a boy growing up on the West Coast of Berbice, Easter was one of the most eagerly anticipated times of the year. By...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 نيسان/أبريل 2025

PNCR leader Aubrey Norton and AFC leader Nigel Hughes

GUYANA | Political Impasse: Norton's Iron Grip Threatens Opposition's Electoral Chances

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 23, 2025 - As Guyana teeters on the brink of national elections, the country's opposition finds itself trapped in a self-inflicted quagmire of ego and obstinance.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 23 نيسان/أبريل 2025

AFRICA | A Shell Oil Toxic Legacy in Nigeria: A Cautionary Tale for the Guyana Oil Boom

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 19, 2025 - In what critics call a calculated corporate vanishing act, Shell has quietly withdrawn from Nigeria's onshore oil operations, leaving behind five decades of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 19 نيسان/أبريل 2025

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