Stories by Ryon Jones

Under a plan developed by businessman Andrew Azar and his partners, a new entertainment hotspot should have by now be fully operational on the Kingston waterfront to welcome the hundreds of persons expected to travel there for the Urban Development...

Businessman Andrew Azar is calling on the Government to roll out the red carpet to investors instead of red tape, following his experience with the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) in trying to redevelop the old Victoria Pier on Kingston's...

Indications that the new legislation to govern the soon-to-be-rebranded Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will draw heavily on the law now in place is unlikely to go down well with critics, who have been calling for a complete overhaul of the entity...

Scores of children in the east Kingston community of McIntyre Villa, better known as 'Dunkirk' will have little to cheer about this Christmas as warring factions have made...

More than 120 infants are out of preschool after the operators of the Emmanuel Early Childhood Development Centre on Studio One Boulevard, Cross Roads, St Andrew, were evicted.The infants and their parents turned up last Monday to find desks, chairs...

There is a growing consensus on the need for a national dialogue on whether abortion should be made legal in Jamaica, and Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton supports the call for the issue to be discussed.Section 73 of the Offences Against the...

Professor of child health and child development at the University of the West Indies, Maureen Samms-Vaughan, is pleading with the Jamaican Government to put a stop to the legalised forms of violence against children by banning corporal punishment....

With hundreds of Jamaican children continuing to fall victims to violent discipline, sexual abuse, and homicides, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), through the release of its latest global report examining violence in the lives of...

Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) has endorsed the HIV prevention pill, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), being considered for introduction to Jamaica by the Ministry of Health.The Sunday Gleaner first reported that the Government was considering...

New chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), retired Major General Antony Anderson, is warning employees of the entity and persons applying for gun permits that it will not be business as usual.The FLA has been embroiled in controversy...

The administration of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, has admitted that all is not well at the facility, but argues that steps are being taken to remedy the situation.The acknowledgement came...