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Jamaica prepares for Tropical Storm Tomas. 
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Gladstone Taylor / Photographer Corinaton Market
Gladstone Taylor / Photographer Corinaton Market
Gladstone Taylor / Photographer Corinaton Market
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer. Residents of Dela Vega City Community in Spanish Town clean a Drain on White Church Street in preparation for the passageof Tomas on Thursday 4.11.2010.
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer. Residents of Dela Vega City Community in Spanish Town clean a Drain on White Church Street in preparation for the passageof Tomas on Thursday 4.11.2010.
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer. Residents of Dela Vega City Community in Spanish Town clean a Drain on White Church Street in preparation for the passageof Tomas on Thursday 4.11.2010.
Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Members of The Missionaries of the Poor batten down in preparation for Tropical Storm Tomas at their North Street, Kingston facility on Wednesday
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Michael Salmon, a resident of New Haven in St Andrew, does some drain cleaning on Riverside Drive in preparation for the passage of Tropical Storm Tomas.
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer. One year-old Jordane McKenzie sits beside a bed that has been put on blocks in preparation for the passage of Tropical Storm Tomas and the rains that will accompany the system, at his home in New Haven, St Andrew, yesterday.
Gareth Davis Photo Residents gear up for Tropical Storm Tomas in Boundbrook, Portland yesterday.
Gareth Davis Photo Fishermen brought their fishing boats ashore in Portland yesterday to protect them from the wrath of Tropical Storm Tomas.
Gladstone Taylor / Photographer Princes street flooded.
Ian Allen/Photographer A boy guides his bike along a narrow pathway on a gully bank on Red Hills Road, St Andrew, on Sunday. Scores of squatting settlements are at risk of flooding and collapse as Jamaica is expected to be affected by the outer bands of Tropical Storm Tomas, which might dump rain on the island later this week. Only a month ago, the island was drenched by Tropical Storm Nicole, which claimed the lives of more than a dozen Jamaicans. Sections of the Red Hills Road Gully that was damages during Hurricane Nicole.
Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Prime Minister Bruce Golding, (right) got an update Ronald Jackson,(second right) Director-General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management and Sylvia McGill (left) National Meteorological Service on Tropical storm Tomas at ODPEM office in St. Andrew yesterday. Looking on is Information minister Daryl Vaz,
Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Prime Minister Bruce Golding (left), receives an update from Ronald Jackson, Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) on Tropical Storm Tomas at ODPEM office in St. Andrew yesterday. The Prime Minister had just arrived from Barbados where he attended the funeral of the late Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson. Golding later flew to the eastern parishes of Portland and St. Thomas which the Meterological Service said would feel the greatest impact from the outbands of the storm.
These young men, from left, Pabo, Natty Ray and Lennie Hyde, all of Boundbrook, Portland, were spotted along West Street in Port Antonio, sitting on a stall sharing a flask of rum yesterday during the rain. They claimed they are awaiting the arrival of Tropical Storm Tomas.
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