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Calvin G. Brown News 15 July 2025

JAMAICA | Michael Manley's Courageous 1975 Visit to Cuba Forging a Medical Partnership That Still Saves Lives 50 Years Later

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica July 14, 2025 - Fifty years ago this month, Prime Minister Michael Manley's historic visit to Cuba launched one of the Caribbean's most enduring and impactful partnerships, directly resulting in the training of hundreds of Jamaican doctors who now form the backbone of the island's healthcare system.

Calvin G. Brown News 15 July 2025

Jamaica's Prime Minister Michael Manley and Cuban President Fidel Castro-Ruz.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump of the U.S. who announced a 50% tariff hike on Brazilian imports, effective August 1, 2025.

BRAZIL | Lula Draws a Red Line: "We Don't Want Emperors" as Trump's 50% Tariff Threat Backfires

RIO, BRAZIL, JULY 14, 2025 - When Donald Trump threatened Brazil with punishing 50% tariffs this week, demanding the halt of former President Jair Bolsonaro's coup trial, he may have...

WiredJA News Team News 14 July 2025

Head of Ecowas President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria and General Abdourahamane Tchiani of Niger.

AFRICA | Niger's Economic Defiance: How a Coup-Born Nation Charts Its Own Course

WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2025 - The International Monetary Fund quietly handed Niger $41 million this week, a tacit acknowledgment that the West African nation's post-coup economic strategy is working—despite...

WiredJA News Team News 14 July 2025

Miranda Wellington PNP Chair South West St. Elizabeth

JAMAICA | War of Words: PNP Rallies Behind Wellington as Political Rhetoric Sparks Island-Wide Controversy

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 9, 2025 - When Miranda Wellington declared "if a war, a war" at a recent PNP meeting, she unwittingly ignited a political firestorm that has exposed...

WiredJA News Team News 12 July 2025

Israel’s unrelenting bombing of Gaza cause untold damage and humanitarian displacement

CARICOM Leaders Condemn Gaza's "Unprecedented Humanitarian Catastrophe"

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 11, 2025 - The Caribbean Community has shattered its diplomatic restraint, unleashing an extraordinary condemnation of what it calls Gaza's "unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe"—a crisis so appalling...

WiredJA News Team News 12 July 2025

Heads of Government at the 49th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM - Montego Bay, Jamaica.

CARICOM | Communiqué issued following the 49th Regular Meeting of CARICOM, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

COMMUNIQUE The Forty-Ninth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica from 6-8 July under the chairmanship of Dr...

WiredJA News Team News 12 July 2025

Afreximbank And the Government of Grenada, Present the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025) July 28, 2025.

GRENADA | AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025) set for July 28

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 11, 2025 - Jamaica's eleventh-hour signing of the African Export-Import Bank partnership agreement this week wasn't just another diplomatic formality—it was a strategic masterstroke that could...

WiredJA News Team News 12 July 2025

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson express concerns over the Pawning Future MBJ Airport Revenues.

JAMAICA | PNP Alarmed: Gov't Pawns Future MBJ Airport Revenues to Fund Today's Spending Spree

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 11, 2025 - Jamaica's government is once again reaching into tomorrow's pockets to pay today's bills, this time pledging future revenues from its busiest airport to fund...

WiredJA News Team News 11 July 2025

Chief Executive Officer and Technical Director of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Private Sector Organization (CPSO), Dr. Patrick Antoine.

JAMAICA | CARICOM Urged to Strengthen Trade Strategies

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica July 9, 2025 - JIS - Chief Executive Officer and Technical Director of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Private Sector Organization (CPSO), Dr. Patrick Antoine, has proposed addressing...

WiredJA News Team News 11 July 2025

Prime Minister Andrew Holness greets Afreximbank's Acting Chief Operating Officer of the Caribbean Office Okechukwu Ihejirika at the signing of a MOU with the Afreximbank at Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay on Tuesday July 8.Observing from left are: Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson-Smith and President and Chairman of AfreximBank, Professor Benedict Oramah.

CARICOM | Jamaica's Billion-Dollar Gamble: Can Africa Save the Caribbean's Economic Future?

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 10, 2025 - Jamaica has finally joined the Africa-Caribbean economic dance, but the question isn't whether it can afford to participate—it's whether it can afford not to.

WiredJA News Team News 10 July 2025

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