Stories by Ryon Jones

Manufacturers and distributors of roots drinks, energy drinks, natural health drinks and other nutraceuticals on the local market will soon have to prove that these products contain the ingredients advertised and can do what they are claimed to do....

Residents of Roselle and neighbouring communities in St Thomas celebrated wildly last week as for the first time in several months, water flowed from the famous waterfall in the area.With residents unable to remember a time when the waterfall did...

More than 60 dentists could be operating illegally across the island, having failed to meet the deadline for registration and providing proof of continuing education to the Dental Council of Jamaica.The council last Friday released the list of...

It is the season for giving, but it is also the season for borrowing. Several formal and informal establishments are offering same-day loans, payday loans, and quick loans for Christmas. The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is urging Jamaicans to...

The Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) has declared that it remains in good financial health despite indications that several beneficiaries remain delinquent in repaying their loans.The SLB was slated to publish a list of chronic delinquents today, but...

Months after The Sunday Gleaner first reported that meat dumped at the Riverton City landfill was being sold in markets in the Corporate Area, it appears the practice is continuing.Last week, our news team saw persons flocking trucks dumping...

Carona Hepburn feels she has been stuck in a nightmare for the past 15 months. That is how long her daughter, Shanel Hurd, has been missing without a trace.Shanel was among 1,984 children reported missing last year. Seventy-nine per cent of them...

Dentists practising locally without current registration certificates could find themselves in serious problems with the law after tomorrow.A Sunday Gleaner probe had found that of the almost 250 dentists operating in Jamaica, only a little more...

Jamaican mothers are being warned to be careful how they go about disciplining their sons, as the use of corporal punishment could create 'monsters' instead of 'angels'.Following a near two-decades-long study, anthropologist of social violence, Dr...

In the wake of The Sunday Gleaner's report that the Dental Council of Jamaica has little power to move against dentists operating without valid practising certificates, the island's chief dental officer has conceded that the 41-year-old Dental Act...

He survived the chik-V cock-up, braved the outbreak of the hand, foot and mouth disease, but the deaths of 19 babies in two hospitals because of a bacterial outbreak proved one catastrophe too many for Dr Fenton Ferguson, who was last Friday shifted...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is sitting on property valued at more than $39.6 billion across the island.Information provided to The Sunday Gleaner by the UDC, through an Access to Information Act request, showed that at the end of March,...