Left: Jamaica's Usain Bolt, winner of the men's 200m. Right: Melaine Walker celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's 400-metre hurdles. - Charles Pitt

Jamaicans surely know how to celebrate. Yesterday after Melaine Walker won gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles in an Olympic record, and Usain Bolt blasted home in 19.30 in the 200-metre to set a new world record, Jamaicans from all walks of life turned out to celebrate. In Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, downtown Kingston, Maxfield Avenue and all across Jamaica people showed their excitement. Our photographers Ian Allen and Norman Grindley were on the spot. Here are some highlights.

It was a party on Maxfield Avenue after Melaine Walker won the gold medal in Beijing, China, yesterday.

Pandemonium in Half-Way Tree as hundreds of Jamaicans watched Usain Bolt break the 200m world record, and Melanie Walker the 400m hurdles Olympic record