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Bog Walk Gorge
"Heavy rains on Saturday make the Bog Walk Gorge impassable as the Rio Cobre River over-runs its banks with water up to five feet in some area. Picture one shows a Public Works Department tractor assisting a Land Rover through the waters yesterday."
Bus crash on hillside
"Death bus - curious spectators looking at the wrecked bus."
Collision along Maxfield Avenue
"Crash: These two cars collided along Maxfield Avenue, St. Andrew yesterday. The Hillman had just left Lyndhurst Road to go north along Maxfield Avenue while the Cortina was travelling east from Kings Crescent. No one was injured. One windshield was…
Kentyre, Eastern St. Andrew
"Stones and debris and mud cover a yard at Kentyre, Eastern St. Andrew."
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."
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."
Kingston Public Hospital (KPH)
"Back on the Job: Registered nurses seen back on the job yesterday at the KPH after a two-day work stoppage to protest Government's response to their 12-point claim. The work resumption formula was reached when the Nurses Association of Jamaica and…
(KPH) Kingston Public Hospital
"The new block at Kingston Public Hospital is now taking shape and the gleaming white structure is getting the finishing touches. It contrasts with the red-brick buildings to the southern part of the hospital."
Kingston Public Hospital
"Dr. and Nurse: Wayne McSam, 9, and Lorraine Parkinson, 5, of the Wyman Basic School in Pink Lane, Kingston gave a highly entertaining true-to-life performance yesterday for nurses at the Kingston Public Hospital, as their contribution to the current…
David Coore, Finance Minister
"Welcome: Finance Minister David Coore greets Australian Deputy Prime Minister D. Cairns at Jamaica House yesterday morning. Behind Mr. Coore (left to right) are Prime Minister Michael Manley and Mining and Natural Resources Minister Allan Isaacs.…
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Orange Park, St. Thomas

The main house of the Orange Park coffee plantation in Yallahs, St. Thomas which eventually became home to the late Professor Basil Barrington Watson.