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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 كانون1/ديسمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Agricultural Maze: Colonial Legacy, Crumbling Roads, and the Fight for Food Security

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 15, 2024 - The sprawling network of 4,000 kilometers of farm roads in Jamaica serves as the lifeline for over 300,000 small farmers, yet only 12% of the island's arable lands benefit from its ten irrigation systems – a stark reminder of the infrastructure challenges facing this Caribbean nation's agricultural sector.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 كانون1/ديسمبر 2024

Former President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Lenworth Fulton.

Former president of the Jamaica Agriculture Society, Lenworth Fulton

JAMAICA | The Agricultural Pivot: Jamaica's Call for Economic Renaissance

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 8, 2024 - The Prime Minister's clarion call for economic transformation marks a watershed moment for Jamaica. Breaking free from six decades of anemic 1-2% growth, the...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 كانون1/ديسمبر 2024

GUYANA | Modi’s recent visit exposed Gov’t discriminatory practice towards African Guyanese

indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s recent visit (19th– 21st November 2024) to Guyana has confirmed the views of many, particularly those in the African community, that the People’s Progressive...

lLincoln Lewis Op-Ed 04 كانون1/ديسمبر 2024

Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, London.

JAMAICA | Descendants Of Enslavers: Beam In Whose Eyes?

KINGSTON, December 1, 2024 - With Mark Golding leading one of the political parties seeking to hold the reins of power, potentially becoming the head of government, it was perhaps...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 02 كانون1/ديسمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Labor Pains: Jamaica's Agricultural and Tourism Sectors at the Crossroads

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 23, 2024 - By LenworthThe crisis in Jamaican agriculture extends far beyond mere issues of financing, land availability, or government policy - at its heart lies a...

Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 23 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | The only thing missing from Ali’s Tuesday circus was the ringmaster

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 20, 2024 - President Irfaan Ali’s circus that opened at 5.30 a.m on Tuesday November 12, 2024 drew mixed reviews from the Guyanese public.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | We can achieve the system of governance demanded by our Constitution

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 13, 2024 - The Guyana Constitution in its preamble requires us to “Forge a system of governance that promotes concerted effort and broad-based participation in national decision-making...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 13 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

ANTIGUA| "She is not too bright, she’s Antiguan," says the foreign store owner

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, In the heart of St. John's, a disturbing encounter lays bare the persistent colonial attitudes that still plague Antigua and Barbuda. As dawn breaks over the capital,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | In Guyana's Oil Rich Economy, All must benefit, not just a few!

Today I return to the thrust of my article published in Village Voice News on 5th August 2022, captioned: “Preoccupation with handshake distracts from issues of good governance, rights and...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 05 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

JAMAICA | Its an All-Round Denial of Justice says A. J. Nicholson

KINGSTON, November 4, 2024 - It is decidedly unacceptable that denial of justice to the everyday Jamaican is unspeakably pervasive, coming as it does from so many different sources, from...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

Political Leader of the United Progressive Progressive, Jamale Pringle

ANTIGUA | A Panther Rising: Jamale Pringle and the Resurgent UPP

ST. JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda November 1, 2024 - In the dynimic landscape of Antiguan politics, the United Progressive Party (UPP) stands defiant—a political phoenix rising from the ashes of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 01 تشرين2/نوفمبر 2024

GUYANA | Immigrants continue to flock Guyana, we are still not prepared

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 20, 2024 - Guyana is now an established oil and gas producing country but there remains no system in place that will manage the influx of people,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 21 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

GUYANA | Prof. Clive Thomas is onto something… let’s not shy away from conversation on its feasibility

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 2024 -I remain wedded to Professor Clive Thomas’ proposal of US$5000 to each household, yearly, and again ask the nation to have a serious conversation around it,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 20 تشرين1/أكتوير 2024

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