Stories by Ryon Jones

While Jamaicans continue to bask in the success of the athletes in Rio, one Olympian continues to bemoan the fact that injury prevented him from soaring to the heights that he could have reached.Paul Foreman left his footprints in the sands of...

Thousands of Jamaicans are under investigation as United States law-enforcement officials collaborate with local police to break the back of the lottery scam and other telemarketing crimes.Under Project JOLT (Jamaican Operations Linked to...

Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison is warning that Jamaican children are putting themselves at risk by travelling to meet up with strangers who they know only from social media.The trend of hooking up with people you meet online, referred...

Persons convicted of sexual crimes overseas and deported to Jamaica could be working in our schools, hospitals and children's homes as there is no system in place to track them once they return to the island.Provisions are in place under the Sexual...

A Jamaican who was convicted in the United States for having sex with an underage girl and labelled a ‘sexual predator’ by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been operating a medical practice in the island for the past 16...

Though born and raised in the gritty west Kingston community of Fletcher's Land, Abigail Tiffany Cameron has, from an early age, been smashing glass ceilings and rising above the standards set for the majority of inner-city children.She is on a...

For decades, fatal accidents in the Bog Walk gorge, particularly around the Flat Bridge, have made the headlines as the area developed a reputation as a black spot.The Rio Cobre, which runs beneath the more than 300-year-old bridge, has been the...

A Jamaican living in Qatar is calling for a rethink in how the country's diplomatic affairs are handled in that part of the world.The Jamaican Embassy in Kuwait handles diplomatic issues for persons in the Gulf States, but Joan Williams*, who along...

Local human-rights activists are confident that one of the positive spin-offs from the amendment of the Dangerous Drugs Act is that fewer of the nation's children will find themselves in custody for possession of the weed.While declaring their...