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Highland Drive
"2. Adina Bruff of Highland Drive uses a rake stick to test the depth of the water in the gully which runs in the back of her yard. Water overflowed the gully bank and went for her house to damage furniture and other personal effects."
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Jacques Road
"Muddy mirror: The pointing hand (top left) shows the level to which water and mud reached in Miss Yvonne Brown's house on Jacques Road."
Jacques Road, McGregor Gully
"Members of this family are seen packing their belongings as they prepare to evacuate their Jacques Road home in the McGregor Gully. This residence was also badly affected by last year's Gilda floods."
Johnson Town
"In a way, Johnson Town citizen, Israel Kerr is lucky. After all, four of his neighbours lost their homes. He did not. And when, during the rains over the week-end, high seas removed his latrine from its base in his backyard, he was able to retain it…
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Kentyre, Eastern St. Andrew
"Stones and debris and mud cover a yard at Kentyre, Eastern St. Andrew."
Majesty Pen
" "But what can we do?" seems to think his Majesty Pen occupant as she stares at the Daily News camera with folded arms."
Manchester - Clarendon border
"Clearing the way: Joslyn Cole (left) and Benjamin Parker clearing the road of debris is at Whitney Turn near the Clarendon-Manchester border Tuesday. Mr. Parker told the Daily News that he lost five goats in the heavy rains."
McGregor Gully
"Surveyed damage: Residents in the McGregor Gully area of St. Andrew survey damage done to their premises by flood waters caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Carmen."
McGregor Gully
"A house holder bailing out water from his kitchen after his home was flooded in McGregor Gully."
Moonlight City - Hunts Bay, St. Andrew
"The mud hole where a gully used to be: This is a flooded section of Moonlight City in the Hunts Bay area of Lower St. Andrew where debris has blocked the gully forcing water into homes."
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Sir Alexander and Lady Bustamante are introduced to Haile Selassie
Prime Minister, Sir Alexander Bustamante, and his wife, Lady Gladys Bustamante, greet His Majesty Haile Selassie. At left of His Majesty stands Donald…