Heavy rainfall flooded homes, businesses, streets and wreaked havoc in Port Maria, St. Mary on Tuesday.
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Wholesale employees Lavern Anderson Plunkett and Devon Brown, as well as Port Maria Primary School Principal Carla Ruddock
Residents of St. Mary have started to pick up the pieces after heavy rainfall flooded homes, businesses, streets and wreaked havoc in the capital, Port Maria.
Public health inspectors are working with businesses in Port Maria to dispose of damaged goods as they carry out clean-up operations.
Radio Jamaica News visited the area on Wednesday and spoke with Lavern Anderson Plunkett, an employee of a wholesale, who was hard at work trying to clean the establishment. "We're trying to see what we can do.... We don't know how far we going [to] reach," she said, noting that the loss was significant.
Asked how long she thought it would take for business to resume, Ms Anderson Plunkett said, "We cyah talk 'bout business now because we nuh have nuh start.... Fifteen of us out of a work for now. Everything gone."
Another employee, Devon Brown, said the wholesale was looted on Tuesday night and the establishment was forced to dump many other items that were badly damaged.
The Ministry of Social Security is to provide care packages to residents in need.
Primary school affected
Records at Port Maria Primary School in the parish capital were also destroyed during Tuesday's heavy rainfall which flooded the institution.
The school's principal, Carla Ruddock, said the entire compound was flooded.
The Jamaica Fire Brigade had to be called in to assist in evacuating students.
According to the principal, it is unclear when classes will resume "based on the amount of debris and mud on the compound and in the classrooms".
She said a full assessment will have to be done before a decision is made.
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