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Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 17 January 2025

JAMAICA | Agricultural Hypocrisy: Fulton says Big Farmers Laugh while Small Farmers Face Agony

KINGSTON, Jamaica January 16, 2025 - In a move that has stirred controversy within Jamaica's agricultural sector, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rejected proposals for a new Agricultural Fund that would be financed through import duties on selected foodstuffs.

Lenworth Fulton Op-Ed 17 January 2025

JAMAICA | Agricultural Hypocrisy: Fulton says Big Farmers Laugh while Small Farmers Face Agony

JAMAICA | The Sweet Decline: Jamaica's Once-Mighty Sugar Industry Faces Existential Crisis

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 12, 2025 - Jamaica's sugar industry, once the cornerstone of colonial wealth and a dark symbol of slavery, now teeters on the brink of irrelevance. From commanding...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 14 January 2025

GUYANA | Ali’s Presidency:Political immaturity, Indecision, lack of Meaningful Progress

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 9, 2025 - Lincoln Lewis - President Irfaan Ali’s time in office has been marked by a series of disappointing failures. Far from asserting himself as the...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 11 January 2025

GUYANA | President Ali knoweth not that he knoweth not

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 4, 2025 - Resistance is man’s instinctive reaction to oppression and violation and must never be suppressed under any guise. Resistance is inherently protected in universal declarations,...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 04 January 2025

BARBADOS | Preparing for Trump 2.0: A Caribbean Perspective on American Political Upheaval

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 30, 2024 - In the shadow of a potential second Trump presidency, the Caribbean nation of Barbados faces what former Foreign Service chief Peter Laurie calls an...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 30 December 2024

GUYANA | Jagdeo/Ali regime continues to attack African Guyanese economic dignity and well-being

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 22, 2024 - The passage last Wednesday of the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes (Amendment) Bill has nefarious intent. Fresh in the minds of Guyanese is...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 26 December 2024

The Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council

JAMAICA | Justice Only For The Wealthy: A Solomonic Constitutional Tabling?

KINGSTON. Jamaica, December 22, 2024 - The prevailing circumstances and the clear motives behind the Government's recent introduction of a bill in Parliament ostensibly to initiate the process of abandoning...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 22 December 2024

Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Opposition Leader, UPP Political Leader Jamale Pringle

ANTIGUA | Analysis: Parliamentary Crisis in Antigua and Barbuda's Budget Debate

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, December 18, 2024 - As one who is familiar with the presentation of national budgets in many of the British-influenced countries across the Caribbean, I was mortified...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 18 December 2024

GUYANA | Instead of wasting time attacking me hold your leader accountable

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 2024 - In a press statement- made by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) last Tuesday, issue was taken with Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s threat that...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 December 2024

Former President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Lenworth Fulton.

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Agricultural Maze: Colonial Legacy, Crumbling Roads, and the Fight for Food Security

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 15, 2024 - The sprawling network of 4,000 kilometers of farm roads in Jamaica serves as the lifeline for over 300,000 small farmers, yet only 12% of...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 15 December 2024

Former president of the Jamaica Agriculture Society, Lenworth Fulton

JAMAICA | The Agricultural Pivot: Jamaica's Call for Economic Renaissance

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 8, 2024 - The Prime Minister's clarion call for economic transformation marks a watershed moment for Jamaica. Breaking free from six decades of anemic 1-2% growth, the...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 08 December 2024

GUYANA | Modi’s recent visit exposed Gov’t discriminatory practice towards African Guyanese

indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s recent visit (19th– 21st November 2024) to Guyana has confirmed the views of many, particularly those in the African community, that the People’s Progressive...

lLincoln Lewis Op-Ed 04 December 2024

Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, London.

JAMAICA | Descendants Of Enslavers: Beam In Whose Eyes?

KINGSTON, December 1, 2024 - With Mark Golding leading one of the political parties seeking to hold the reins of power, potentially becoming the head of government, it was perhaps...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 02 December 2024

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