35 roads remain impassable across 12 parishes up to last evening.

Among those roads, 6 are in Hanover, 5 in St. Thomas, 4 in Trelawny and 3 in St.Andrew, St.Elizabeth and St.James. 

The National Works Agency (NWA) says some roads are being impacted by flooding. 

Among these  are Montpelier to Cambridge in St.James, Williamsfield to Mile Gully in Manchester, Martha Brae to Kinloss in  Trelawny and Windsor to Aberdeen in St. Elizabeth.

NWA Communication and Customer Services Manager Stephen Shaw, says while progress has been made, the agency’s efforts at fully reopening roads are also being impacted by downed utility posts and wires, landslides and damaged road embankments.

He says that the NWA’s technical teams have already visited some locations as the agency is making preparations to carry out permanent repairs.

Meantime the NWA has reopened nearly 90% of impacted roads since the passage of Hurricane Melissa. 

To date the NWA has received reports of some 385 roads being impacted.

Of this number, 63% or 246 have been reopened to single lane traffic, while another 27% have been fully reopened.