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Crash along Spanish Town Road along Weymouth Drive stoplight
"This Toyota motor car was destroyed and two people died on the spot yesterday morning along the Spanish Town Road at the traffic light at Weymouth Drive. A third later died in the Kingston Public Hospital. Dead are Henry Reid, 52, his four-year old…
Accident at road-a-bout opposite the Jose Marti Secondary School
"Independence tragedy: twenty-four year old Loretta Blackwood of 61 Waltham Park Road being lifted to a vehicle to be rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital yesterday morning after an accident at the round about opposite the Jose Marti Secondary School.…
Married food items
"Joined in sale - a sampling of some of the 'married food items' Prices Commission investigators came across during their investigations. From left to right, mackerel is married to yam, syrup to flour, soap flour to milk, corned beef to corn meal,…
Portmore Causeway
"Crossing the flood: motorists making their way along the Portmore Causeway yesterday morning after one of the principal water mains broke sending thousands of gallons of water to waste. The photograph was taken at 10:00am and Urban Development…
Seabreeze Avenue, Kingston 2
"This house at Seabreeze Avenue Kingston 2 was damaged during the ravages of the Gilda rains last year. The owner has told the Daily News that assistance promised him for the reconstruction of his house has not been forthcoming. This picture was…
McGregor Gully on Windward Road
"A washed out section of the McGregor Gully on Windward Road where the Pentecostal Church was damaged in islandwide rain Wednesday night. Prime Minister Manley [right] looks at the damage."
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."
South St. Elizabeth Medical Complex
"Health Complex - The South St. Elizabeth Medical Complex which is taking shape at Junction. The building, ground for which was broken a year ago, is now 55 per cent completed. On completion it will be equipped and operated by the Health Ministry. A…
Karl Samuda and Ed Bartlett at National Chest Hospital
"Member of Parliament Karl Samuda (left) and Information and Culture Minister Ed Bartlett listening as the staff of the National Chest Hospital explain the poor conditions at the Institution. Above them is a badly leaking root. The party toured the…
Arnold Smith, Kenneth Kaunda and Michael Manley
"Commonwealth Secretary General Arnold Smith with Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda and Jamaica's Michael Manley, arriving at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday for the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting."
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Dr. Anthony Robinson, surgeon and botanist, d. 1768
Side profile of Dr. Anthony Robinson, a surgeon that practised in Jamaica.