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"Flood damage - Banana losses at Fred M. Jones' plantation in St. Thomas."

"Two Works Yard housewives trying to wash out the mud and excrement from their clothes."

"Can wi sponge dry? Duckenfield Sugar Company works yard residents trying to dry their bedding which was soaked by last week's flood waters when eight rivers and some 41 supporting gullies were in spate, sending up to eleven feet of water through…

"A Banana Board representative and Crop Culture Jamaica's Duckenfield air-strip caretaker looking at the damage done by last week's flash-flood to the Banana Board's spray-plane loading point in East St. Thomas."

"The homeless couple: Charlton Mitchell, 30, and his common-law-wife Yvonne Grant, 19, with their 20-month-old son, Cleveland. They lost their two-apartment timber house during the September 18 downpour when the raging Pen Gully overflowed its banks…

"Health hazard - Brown's Gully in Morant Bay has stagnant water and heavy morass all year round except when there's a down-pour of rain to flush the gully. It is one of the many breeding grounds for mosquitoes and ring-worms. In addition, residents…

"At long last: Road repairs - work has now commenced on the existing bad road surfaces in St. Thomas which had been a cause for complaint among motorists. This stretch of road currently under-going repairs is between Lyssons and Retreat on the main…

"The owner and rider of this motor-cycle, Joseph Murray of a Dumfries Crescent address in Morant Bay, was admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital shortly before midnight Saturday in a near unconscious state after the motor-cycle he was riding with…

"Curious onlookers inspect the wreckage of this Morris Minor motor car which left the roadway of a Jamaica Sugar Estates road in St. Thomas and ended up in a canal last Wednesday. Driver Dervin Webley, 17, of Stokes Hall who had driven out the…

"Curious onlookers inspecting the damage to this tanker which crashed into a bridge, one mile from Port Morant on Friday. The bridge was also damaged. Owned by Ivan Jackson of 11 3/4 Seabreeze Avenue, Kingston 2, the tanker was being driven by Lloyd…