Seventy-five year-old Frank Douglas, said to be a former boxing champion for St Thomas in the 1960s, strikes up a boxing pose for our cameras in Wheelerfield in the parish, recently.

It is crop time in St Thomas and heavily loaded tractors such as this one is a common sight in the cane belt area of the parish. Here these workers travel along the Golden Grove mainroad on a tractor heavily laden with sugar cane.

Sylvanus Minott prepares a meal of ‘tun cornmeal’ for his fellow farmers at work in the Plantation Gardens in St Thomas recently.

This vendor in Wheelerfield, St Thomas has not allowed the absence of a boutique to prevent him from displaying his wares on mannequins at his place of business.

With nothing else to do, residents of Wheelerfield, St Thomas hang out at this wayside shop in the community, where unemployment is very high.

These sugar cane workers hitch a ride home in the back of a truck, which was seen travelling along the Golden Grove mainroad in St Thomas.

(Photos: Lionel Rookwood)