Left: Little Ochi Seafood restaurant has seen a reduction in customers since the storm. Right: A vendor still working hard despite not knowing when she will see another customer. - Rasbert Turner photos

It has been almost two weeks since Jamaica felt the wrath of Tropical Storm Nicole but sections of the Breadbasket parish, St Elizabeth, are still feeling its effect.

When The WEEKEND STAR visited the once busy Little Ochie Seafood restaurant, in Alligator Pond, in the parish, it was anything but busy. Officials said business has been at a lull since the rains wreaked havoc on the parish.

The owner, Errol 'Blackie' Christian, told THE WEEKEND STAR, "Business overall has been affected. The rains caused the sand to be eroded. Hopefully, they will get the roads together. The road is what leads persons to your business and, overall, I think that they will fix them in stages, but don't know where Alligator Pond falls in that."

Despite the lull in customers, fish vendor Hortense Banton was still making herself busy cleaning a fresh catch. "Not a soul nuh deh yah today. From the storm, nuh people nah pass and not even one customer is here right now. We lose nuff sale because nobody nah come out, business slow, slow," she said.

A juice man who sells on the beach also said, "Right now, mi can't get nuh sale."

The Alligator Pond Primary and Infant School was not spared the wrath of the storm. The WEEKEND STAR was told the schoolyard and playing field were inundated with water from a nearby pond several feet away. But now the water has subsided, the staff and the students are having difficulties.

Marilyn Williams, a senior teacher at the school, told THEWEEKEND STAR: "The children have been suffering from the flu, ringworm ... and in between their toes, they itch a lot. the mosquitoes are also giving us a hard time."

Williams conceded the school did not suffer major damage and students' attendance is getting back to normal.