Motorists travelling along Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston will be up for a bumpy ride and a pile-up of traffic during peak hours. The road took a battering during the heavy flood rains last week. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

TRANSPORT and Works Minister Mike Henry should tomorrow receive the preliminary damage assessment report on the effects of last week's rain on the country's road, bridges and drain infrastructure.

Stephen Shaw, communications manager of the National Works Agency (NWA), told The Gleaner that the preliminary damage assessments have already started.

"It is just for us to compile those figures in order to come up with a complete picture, so that we may be able to present it to the minister by Tuesday," Shaw said.

Several roads were blocked as a result of landslides. Others were flooded and bridges damaged after heavy rains lashed the island for several days last week.

St. Thomas was deemed by the NWA to have been the worst-affected parish, but the agency said it would await the damage assessment reports to determine exactly how each parish was affected.

The Meteorological Service has forecast partly cloudy conditions with afternoon showers starting today.

Afternoon rains and thunderstorms are also forecast for central and western parishes for Wednesday. These conditions, the Meteorological Services said, are expected to continue into Friday.