Trail of grief 11 parishes suffer heavy damage
INITIAL ESTIMATES of damage to the country's water supply systems resulting from the flood rains ravaging the island since last Wednesday have been put at over $56 million. However, this figure could rise substantially...
...Seven dead
THE DEATH toll continues to climb, as the flood waters from heavy rains associated with a low-pressure weather system, lashed sections of the island for the sixth consecutive day yesterday. Up to press time last night...
Students miss classes, exams
THERE WAS a general low turnout of students in public schools islandwide yesterday. Fitz Jackson, State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture attributed the below par attendance to heavy rains which...
Vendors angry with KSAC, church
A large group of irate vendors, who claimed their stalls were 'illegally' destroyed during the clean-up operations of the Kingston Parish Church, downtown Saturday night, marched to the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation...
Health officials to bury thousands of chickens
PUBLIC HEALTH officials are hoping for a lull in the rain today so that they can speed up efforts to bury thousands of chickens, which drowned in heavy rains on the weekend. The chickens died on two large farms in Toll Gate and Osbourne Store in...
Rains affect sugar exports
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA IS faced with a delay of sugar exports as the agricultural sector takes a battering from the effects of the torrential...
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