Stories by Ryon Jones

With Jamaica averaging close to four murders per day over the first 160 days of 2017, Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting is calling on the Government to urgently make more money available to the security forces to stop the...

No bathrooms, ladders needed to get from one house to the next, no electricity, no roads, and houses perched on concrete structures put in many years ago to contain the Buff Bay River. That is life for the more than 100 residents, including children...

Residents of the Woodstock Housing Scheme in Buff Bay, Portland, are calling for something to be done urgently to save their land, which is being gradually eaten away by the water from the Buff Bay River.The river, which initially flowed along a...

With memories of the October 2016 explosion at an illegal gas plant on Jacques Road in east Kingston that left three people dead still fresh in minds, there are fears concerning the sale of gasolene at an unauthorised property on Beechwood Avenue in...

The Corporate Area community of Waterhouse has been red-flagged as a hotspot for child sexual abuse in Jamaica, and it appears that several mothers in the community have been making money by prostituting their daughters to adult men."If I was to sit...

Principal of the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Archibald McDonald, has admitted to progress being slow in making the institution fully disabled-friendly.McDonald had called on the government, private sector, and...

For scores of Jamaica's children, life is brutish, nasty and short. It gets worse for those children living in the communities which are policed by the men and women from the St Andrew South Police Division, as those were the most dangerous areas...

Chezell Morgan is among members of the special-needs community at the Randolph Lopez School of Hope in St Andrew pleading for more to be done to sensitise the society as to how to treat persons, particularly children, with disabilities.Her voice...