Two consecutive days of rainfall have wreaked havoc in sections of eastern Portland, leaving residents to contend with damaged roadways, flooded homes and devastated farmlands days before Christmas.
The Portland police are now searching for a group of Haitians who landed at Long Road beach late Sunday night and fled. Police sources told The Gleaner that they managed to flee the area with the help of a Haitian man who has been living in St.
Rough weather conditions are frustrating efforts to resume the search for a woman who is missing after a boat on which she was aboard capsized off the coast of Robin's Bay in St Mary on Saturday.
The Catherine man who reportedly drowned while swimming at the Blue Lagoon in Portland on Sunday has been identified as 23-year-old Roje Murray, a construction worker.
The 35 Haitians who landed in Long Bay, Portland, on Sunday are being sent back to their violence-wracked home despite concerns by an international human rights attorney that Jamaica is breaking international law.