Published August 05, 2012, 01:00 PM

Jamaica braces for heavy rain as TS Ernesto nears

PORT ROYAL, Jamaica — Fishermen near Jamaica's capital tied their wooden skiffs down along a rocky shore on Sunday as Tropical Storm Ernesto spun off the Caribbean country's southern coast on a path that may carry it across the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

By: By David McFadden, Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun

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