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WiredJA News Team News 24 December 2025

JAMAICA |More Cash in Jamaican Pockets This Christmas, But Less Than Last Year

Bank of Jamaica reports slower holiday currency growth as spending patterns shift

KINGSTON, Jamaica – December 24, 2025 – Jamaicans are carrying more cash this Christmas season, but the surge in holiday spending appears smaller than last year, according to figures released today by the Bank of Jamaica.

WiredJA News Team News 24 December 2025

Bank of Jamaica building downtown Kingston

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar

ANTIGUA| Facts Over Fiction: Browne Dismantles Persad-Bissessar's "Unreliable" CARICOM Claim

Antigua PM deploys $1.1 billion in trade data to counter Trinidad leader's assault on regional unity ST JOHN’S ANTIGUA, December 24, 2025 - When Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar...

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Trinidad and Tobago's Colonial Coat of Arms ordered reinstated by PM Kamla Persad Bissessar

T&T | Colonial Ships Return: Trinidad's Coat of Arms Reversal Signals Sovereignty Retreat

Persad-Bissessar administration restores Columbus vessels, exiles steelpan from national symbol until 2031 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 23, 2025 - The ships are back. The Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa...

WiredJA News Team News 24 December 2025

JAMAICA | BOJ Holds Policy Rate at 5.75% as Hurricane Melissa Damage Estimate Soars to US$8.8 Billion

Central bank maintains steady hand on monetary policy while projecting inflation will breach target range by early 2026 Kingston, Jamaica – December 22, 2025 – The Bank of Jamaica announced this...

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Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) commended implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) by Barbados, Belize, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines to commence full free movement of persons among themselves.

CARICOM Secretary-General's Message of Unity Defies the Stormy Petrel of Regional Fracture

Dr. Carla Barnett charts course for Caribbean solidarity as Trinidad's vassalage and Trump's aggression threaten to shatter the Community MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, December 22, 2025 - In any other year, Hurricane...

WiredJA News Team News 22 December 2025

JAMAICA | The Bank of Jamaica's Impossible Choice: Holding Rates While Prices Soar

Central bank bets on stability as Jamaicans brace for inflation surge following Hurricane Melissa's devastating blow KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 21, 2025 - On December 17, the Bank of Jamaica announced it...

WiredJA News Team News 22 December 2025

Former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Dr. Keith Rowley calls Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar "unpatriotic and recklessly incompetent".

TRINIDAD | Rowley Unleashes Blistering Attack: Persad-Bissessar Accused of Reducing Trinidad to 'Vassal State'

Former PM fires devastating broadside over successor's CARICOM assault, warning of sovereignty crisis In one of the most scathing political condemnations in Trinidad and Tobago's 63-year history, former Prime Minister Dr....

WiredJA News Team News 21 December 2025

ANTIGUA | Gaston Browne terminates medical partnership with Cuba - raises questions about U.S. pressure and healthcare system stability

Gaston Browne spent nine months defending Cuban doctors as the "core" of Caribbean healthcare. Then he sent them home without explanation, leaving the opposition to express the gratitude his government...

WiredJA News Team News 21 December 2025

Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Opposition Leader Jamale Pringle

ANTIGUA | Parliamentary Privilege as Political Weapon: Browne's Dangerous Play Against Pringle

When the nation's highest legislative chamber becomes a launching pad for criminal accusations, democracy itself is on trial ST JOHN’S ANTIGUA, DECEMBER 17, 2025 - The theater of Caribbean democracy faced...

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Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne

JAMAICA | Blindsided: Trump's Visa Ban Exposes Caribbean Vulnerability to Presidential Whim

Antigua and Barbuda punished for problems it already fixed—revealing the futility of small-state compliance ST. JOHNS, Antigua, December 16, 2025 - There's a particular cruelty in being punished for sins you've...

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