Browse Items (5019 total)

Police and spectators on the scene of an accident involving a truck.

"What was once a house..."

Traffic build-up in Half Way Tree resulting from flood rains.

"And the rains came. And when the rains were over, Jamaica began to count its dead, to calculate the coast of the damage to its crops, its roads, its housing and the cost in human effort destroyed and wasted."

Vehicles travelling a flooded roadway.

"Chelsea Avenue was one of the first roads reported to be flooded recently as rains from Hurricane Katrina pelted the island. A Volkswagen is seen trying to make its way through the water at the intersection of Chelsea Avenue and Half-Way Tree Road."

"Texture of cassava flour is similar to that of wheat flour."

"Flood deaths: Four of the five bodies recovered in the Bogue Hill area of St. James ready for burial. A total of 32 people have been confirmed dead in Western Jamaica as a result of last week's flood rains."

"A section of the road at Belvedere in St. Thomas which was undermined and washed away during heavy rain on Wednesday."