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Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 April 2025

JAMAICA | A 20-Year Dance of Delay: The JLP's Stubborn Hesitation on the Caribbean Court of Justice -

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 16, 2025 - By Calvin G. Brown - As the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) marks its 20th anniversary today, Jamaica stands at a crossroads of its own making—a painful monument to political indecision that has stretched across two decades while five sister nations have moved confidently forward.

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 16 April 2025

JAMAICA | A 20-Year Dance of Delay: The JLP's Stubborn Hesitation on the Caribbean Court of Justice -

GUYANA | Empower the RDC/NDCs: Allow Councils to Shape Their Future

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) regime can allocate all the money it wants to regional and local democratic councils, but until the autonomy of these authorities is truly...

Lincoln Lewis Op-Ed 15 April 2025

JAMAICA | Paradise Lost: The Hidden Crisis in Jamaican Tourism Industry

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 14, 2025 -In the shadow of Jamaica's gleaming resorts and picture-perfect beaches, a troubling reality unfolds. Millions flock to this Caribbean jewel each year, drawn by...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 15 April 2025

Former President of the Jamaica Agriculture Society, Lenworth Fulton

JAMAICA | As US Tariffs bite, Our Agriculture Withers Says Fulton

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 6, 2025 - The recent United States imposed 10% tariff on Jamaica is no bolt from the blue—it arrived with all the subtlety of an oncoming freight...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 07 April 2025

Opposition-nominated GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander

GUYANA | DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE: COURT RULING THREATENS ELECTORAL INTEGRITY SAYS VINCENT ALEXANDER

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 6, 2025 - In a decision that strikes at the very heart of Guyana's democratic foundation, Chief Justice George has dismissed a judicial review application that could...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 07 April 2025

GUYANA | Corruption at Core of Guyana’s Infrastructure Crisis Says Forde

Georgetown, Guyana, April 5, 2025 - The state of Guyana’s infrastructure has reached a crisis point, with crumbling roads, bridges on the verge of collapse, and government promises of modernisation...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 06 April 2025

Alan Bernard—UWI lecturer, community development specialist

JAMAICA | A Tale of Two Titans: The Rise of Allan Bernard and the Fall of Horace Chang

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 4, 2025 - The fortress walls are crumbling. For over two decades, Dr. Horace Chang has reigned supreme in St. James Northwestern, but his political empire...

By O. Dave Allen Op-Ed 05 April 2025

GUYANA | The Keitel Complex: How Blind Loyalty Threatens Guyana's Future

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — History's darkest chapters often reveal themselves not through the actions of tyrants, but through the silent complicity of those who know better. In 1941, as Adolf Hitler's...

Dave Welsh Op-Ed 04 April 2025

GUYANA has serious problems; we must work together to fix them, Says Lincoln Lewis

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 3, 2025 - We have serious problems in this country, and it’s time we work together to fix them. Unity must never be based on convenience but...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 April 2025

The Unknown Slave,' a monument to the memory of slavery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

JAMAICA | Why We Remember – The Atrocities Of Chattel Slavery

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28, 2025 - by Ahmed Reid and Verene Shepherd - March has two significant historical events that the global community, but especially Africa and its Diaspora, mark...

Ahmed Reid and Verene Shepherd Op-Ed 28 March 2025

Jamaica | Desecrating Our Heroes: A Betrayal of Jamaica's Soul

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - "A people without knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots," Marcus Garvey once warned. Today in Montego Bay, those roots are being severed...

Sonya Sinclair Op-Ed 26 March 2025

GUYANA | From the Ashes, Critchlow Labour College Will Rise Again

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2025 - On the morning of Saturday, March 22, a devastating fire tore through Critchlow Labour College (CLC), leaving a significant portion of the building in...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 March 2025

Former President of the Jamaica Agriculture Society, Agriculturist Lenworth Fulton

JAMAICA | Agricultural Development Fund: A Vital Necessity for Jamaica's Economic Growth

KINGSTON, Jamaica March 22, 2025 - While politicians eagerly dole out millions for youth development initiatives, Jamaica's agricultural sector—the backbone of our rural economy—continues to wither on the vine of...

Lenworth Fulton -Agriculturist Op-Ed 23 March 2025

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