WATCH: Residents in Bath St Thomas forced to evacuate following heavy rains

ST THOMAS, Jamaica—Heavy rainfall affecting the island has forced some residents in parts of Bath, St Thomas, to leave their homes due to flooding. Residents say the Plantain Garden River has overflown its banks, sending floodwaters towards their homes. "The whole a the sand weh them push up wash weh. When we talk them gwan like we a idiot. All of the sand weh them did push up wash weh. We gone back to square one. The river come down on we again. When we ask Stephen Shaw [manager of communication and customer service at the National Works Agency] when the river a grine back him say him cant tell we when," one resident said. READ: Fears flow in St Thomas