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WiredJA News Team News 28 January 2026

JAMAICA | Kirkland Becomes Second Woman to Lead Lay Magistrates as She Pledges Unity and Reform

Only the second female president in the Association’s four-decade history, Paulette Kirkland charts course for modernisation and community engagement

Paulette Kirkland, a former president of the Kingston Chapter of the Lay Magistrates’ Association of Jamaica, has been installed as President, becoming only the second woman to lead the organisation in its more than forty-year history.

WiredJA News Team News 28 January 2026

President of the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica Paulette Kirkland, JP

Trinidadian fishermen Chad Josephs and Rishi Samaroo who were killed in a US drone strike in October

TRINIDAD | Blood in Caribbean Waters: Families of Slain Trinidadians Take Fight for Justice to U.S. Courts

Landmark lawsuit challenges Trump administration's deadly missile strikes that have killed at least 125 civilians in Caribbean and Pacific waters PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 27, 2026 - Chad...

WiredJA News Team News 28 January 2026

Fired Haitian Prime MInister Alix Didier Fils-Aime

CARICOM | Fiddling While Port-au-Prince Burns: Haiti's Leadership Crisis Reaches Breaking Point

CARICOM's pointed rebuke exposes a transitional government more interested in power struggles than the people it was created to serve—with regional leaders set to confront the fallout in St. Kitts...

WiredJA News Team News 27 January 2026

AFRICA | Brown Gold, Bitter Reality: Côte d'Ivoire's Cocoa Farmers Drown in Unsold Beans

The world’s largest chocolate consumers reap the benefits of crashing prices while West African small farmers face economic devastation The cruel arithmetic of global commodities has never been more merciless. The ...

WiredJA News Team News 27 January 2026

DIASPORA | From Alligator Alcatraz to Antigua: Inside Trump's Global Deportation Pipeline

The US is building an industrial-scale deportation system — detention infrastructure at home, offloading agreements abroad By Calvin G. Brown | WiredJa MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica January 27, 2026 - "We need to...

WiredJA News Team News 27 January 2026

Drummer Lowell Fillmore “Sly” Dunbar, who with the late Robbie Shakespeare formed the iconic reggae rhythm section Sly and Robbie, has died at the age of 73

ENTERTAINMENT | When the Riddim Stopped: Jamaica Loses "Sly", the Drummer Who Defined Its Sound

The rhythmic architect of reggae's global conquest dies at 73, leaving a void no drum kit can fill By Staff Writer | WiredJa | January 26, 2026 The hands that drove the...

WiredJA News Team News 27 January 2026

Newly elected Opposition Leader MP Azruddin Mohamed who criticised a parliamentary decision not to allow non-government media to cover the election of the Leader of the Opposition.

GUYANA | No Votes Against: Mohamed Elected Opposition Leader as PPP's Three-Month Gambit Collapses

WIN leader's unanimous election exposes the hollowness of PPP's 'international fugitive' campaign By WiredJa Staff | January 27, 2026 GEORGETOWN, GUYANA | It took less than five minutes to undo 84 days...

WiredJA News Team News 26 January 2026

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, left, and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

UNITED STATES | The Minnesota Standoff and America's Drift Toward Internal Apartheid

How South African-born tech oligarchs are shaping a federal crackdown that echoes the darkest chapters of racial segregation MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, by WiredJa Staff | January 25, 2026 - The letter...

WiredJA News Team News 26 January 2026

MP Azruddin Mohamed who criticised a parliamentary decision not to allow non-government media to cover the election of the Leader of the Opposition.

GUYANA Bars Independent Media from Opposition Leader Vote

State-owned NCN granted exclusive access to long-overdue proceedings as presumptive Opposition Leader condemns restriction as assault on press freedom GEORGETOWN, Guyana January 25, 2026 - When Guyana’s National Assembly convenes on...

WiredJA News Team News 25 January 2026

APNU's Parliamentary Lead Dr. Terrence Campbell

GUYANA | APNU's Terrence Campbell Challenges President Ali's Unilateral Commission Appointments

Opposition MP files judicial review as Guyana operates without Leader of Opposition for nearly five months GEORGETOWN, Guyana |WiredJa News Service | January 20, 2026 - In a move that strikes...

WiredJA News Team News 23 January 2026

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