Jackson Views Jamaica Damage
Prime Minister Edward Seaga brought the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two New York members of Congress here Sunday to show them the devastation that has left thousands of Jamaicans without food, shelter or work in the aftermath of Hurricane Gilbert.
“The hurricane has created tremendous problems,” Jackson said in this eastern city. “People cannot get to hospitals because they are overcrowded. The mortuaries are overcrowded. . . . When their homes go, people have to go to churches that were not devastated, or to schools.”
Jackson and New York Democratic Reps. Major R. Owens and Edolphus Towns planned to tour other devastated regions of Jamaica.
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