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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 May 2025

GHANA | While Africa Honors Nkrumah, Ghana Honors Kotoka, His Betrayer

ACCRA, Ghana, May 25, 2025- Calvin G. Brown— Every visitor to Ghana's capital is greeted by a profound historical betrayal. The gleaming sign at Kotoka International Airport bears the name of the very man who orchestrated the downfall of Ghana's founding father, creating a bitter irony that cuts to the heart of the nation's identity crisis.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 May 2025

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Great pan-Africanist, Philosopher, Intellectual icon who led the movement for the independence of Ghana

Dame D. Gisele Isaac, Chair of the United Political Party (UPP)

ANTIGUA | The High Cost of Dissent: When Fear of Consequences Muzzles Cabinet

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, May 23, 2025 - D.Gisele Isaac | We used to wonder how a Cabinet comprised of big, hardbacked men, almost exclusively, could sit silently and just allow...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 24 May 2025

GUYANA | A Decade Later, Still No Justice: UN’s Decade for People of African Descent Must Move from Paper to Action

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 18, 2025 - Lincoln Lewis - Ten years after the United Nations (UN) launched the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024), the lives of African...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 May 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 | 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...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 May 2025

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 May 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 April 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 April 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 April 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 April 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 April 2025

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