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WiredJA News Team Politics 25 February 2022

JAMAICA | PM Holness Announces Changes to FLA Operations, Get the Guns Campaign

KINGSTON,Jamaica, February 24, -Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the National Security Council (NSC) today had important discussions with a view to making adjustments to the operations of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), following reports of alleged impropriety in the issuing of gun permits.

WiredJA News Team Politics 25 February 2022

JAMAICA | PM Holness Announces Changes to FLA Operations, Get the Guns Campaign

JAMAICA | “Our Students Have Been Abandoned by the Government for Being Ambitious”

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 24, 2022 - Opposition Spokesperson on Youth and Sports, Senator Gabriela Morris, is expressing great disappointment with the Government's lacklustre response to the plight of the Jamaican...

WiredJA News Team Politics 25 February 2022

CARICOM Condemns Russian Invasion of Ukraine

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - Thursday, 24 February 2022 - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it strongly condemns the military attacks and invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation and...

WiredJA News Team Politics 24 February 2022

JAMAICA | PNP wants Holness to respond to the crisis in Ukraine

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 24, 2022 - The Russian invasion of Ukraine has left the world in a heightened state of fear and insecurity. The People’s National Party condemns this act...

WiredJA News Team Politics 24 February 2022

UNITED STATES | Jamaican-American Brian Cunnimngham Wins Democratic Party nomination for NY State Assembly seat

NEW YORK, NY, February 22, 2022 - A Jamaican-American, Brian Cunningham, has won the Democratic nomination for the special election in central Brooklyn’s Assembly District 43, securing over 90 percent...

WiredJA News Team Politics 23 February 2022

JAMAICA | Gov't signs wage accord with Teachers, Police, Port Security Corps.

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - The Government of Jamaica and the Jamaica Police Federation have concluded negotiations and have signed, at the Ministry of Finance and the Public...

WiredJA News Team Politics 22 February 2022

UNITED STATES | Baltimore Sun editorial board apologizes for paper's 185 year racist policies

The Baltimore Sun newspaper out of the State of Maryland in the United States, today issued a stunning apology indicating that " We are deeply and profoundly sorry: For decades,...

Baltimore Sun Editorial Board Politics 19 February 2022

JAMAICA | Opposition calls for the Dismissal of Shane Dalling as CEO of the Firearm Licencing Authority

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 17, 2022: The Opposition PNP has called for the removal of Shane Dalling as the CEO of the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) for poor performance, especially in...

WiredJA News Team Politics 17 February 2022

GUYANA | Opposition says PPP Foreign Policy is nebulous, incoherent, fleeting and transactional !

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 14, 2022 - Guyana’s Opposition spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Amanza Walton Desir is not comfortable with the administration’s foreign policy, describing it as nebulous, incoherent, fleeting and...

WiredJA News Team Politics 15 February 2022

JAMAICA | Opposition PNP wants Gov't to Immediately Evacuate Jamaicans from Ukraine

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 11, 2022 - The Opposition Peoples National Party wants the government to move with alacrity in evacuating Jamaican nationals including students from the Ukraine where war drums...

WiredJA News Team Politics 11 February 2022

JAMAICA | Portmore's Mayor Leon Thomas cautions Gov't over parish initiative

PORTMORE, Jamaica, February 11 - The Mayor of the municipality of Portmore in St. Catherine, His Worship Leon Thomas, is cautioning the government not to make a hasty political decision...

WiredJA News Team Politics 11 February 2022

GUYANA | Walton Desir urges gov't to begin planning for coastal flooding expected within eight years

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 2022 - APNU+AFC parliamentarian Amanza Walton Desir has slammed the PPPC administration for its short-sightedness and utter neglect in tackling the potential for flooding in Guyana’s coastal...

WiredJA News Team Politics 11 February 2022

AFRICA | White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth

Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of southern Africa, she empathises with the continent’s people.

Henning Melber Politics 10 February 2022

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