A resident of Caribbean Estate in Harbour View, St Andrew contemplates evacuating his home as Hurricane Beryl approaches Jamaica on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Ricardo Brooks/Nationwide News Network)
Efforts by officials from the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, KSAMC, to get residents of Port Royal to go to shelters have proven futile.
The Mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, provided an update this morning on Cliff Hughes Online.
Andrew Swaby, Mayor of Kingston.
Meanwhile, some residents of Port Royal in east Kingston are refusing to leave their communities and relocate to emergency shelters as Hurricane Beryl begins to impact the island.
Southern and eastern parishes have been feeling the brunt of the category four hurricane since early this morning.
The main road leading into Port Royal has been rendered impassable as storm surges begin to flood the streets.
Photos received by our news centre show several residents staring at an empty JUTC bus designated to transport vulnerable residents to the emergency shelter at the National Arena.
One resident in the flood prone community says she is not leaving her home.
Another resident, who’s lived in Port Royal for over 70 years, said she would rather die in her home than move to a shelter.
And, another resident told our news centre that she has faith in the community’s drainage system.
Residents of Port Royal.
And the councillor for the Springfield Division in Port Royal, Kingston, Lorraine Dobson, says residents in her division have relocated to shelters in anticipation of Hurricane Beryl.
Councillor Dobson says most residents that evacuated have taken shelter at the National Arena in Kingston.
Meanwhile, Councillor Dobson says work has been done to reduce the likelihood of Port Royal residents being marooned.
Lorraine Dobson, councillor for the Springfield Division.
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