During last week’s heavy rains, two areas in particular suffered serious flooding – Weston in St James and Pie Corner, St Lucy.
Both areas have featured flood water-related tragedies. On August 3, 1995, veteran calypsonian Neville Denis Blackman, known as De Great Carew, was washed out to sea while in his beachside wooden home at Weston.
Last November 14, 21-year-old Yohance Johnson, of Pie Corner, was travelling over a bridge in a car along Lamberts, also in St Lucy, when raging flood waters tossed the car into the nearby ravine. Johnson’s naked body was discovered in Date Tree Hill, St Peter, a mile away.
Carew’s memory remains alive 26 years later. In Douglin’s Gap, Weston, Marcy Shepherd said there were only two times when the area was truly flooded, in 1995 and this year. (CA)
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