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Prime Minister Michael Manley, George Headlam and others touring a shelter following flood rains.

Residents using buckets and other means to remove water from from their dwellings following flood rains.

"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."

"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…

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

"Helping hand: A considerate adult helps school children across a swirling, gushing and potentially river, which in times when it does not rain, is the Hagley Park Road. Scene was during last week's heavy afternoon rains."

"Two vehicles slowly, and carefully negotiating their way through a pool at the Darling Street - Marcus Garvey Drive intersection in the Kingston Waterfront area yesterday."

"Flood rains."

"Ronnie Herron, Marketing Manager of Guinness [left] presenting a cheque worth $15,000 to Derrick Stone, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. The money goes to boost efforts to combat damage done to crops by the recent flood…

"Splishing and splashing: When bad weather puts going to the beach out of the question, you can always take to the street and make the best of a heavy downpour, shown here by this backstroke swimmer. Her beach was at the corner of North Street and…