The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company is reporting that power has been restored to 55 per cent of customers. “We have been making significant progress in regard to overall restoration. [Immediately following] the passage of Hurricane Melissa, we had 23 per cent of customers in service. To date, we have 55 per cent of customers in service. That is over...

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is advancing electricity restoration efforts in St. James, following widespread outages caused by the recent passage of Hurricane Melissa. Speaking during an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) meeting at the St. James Municipal Corporation in Montego Bay on Thursday (November 6), JPS’s Director of Customer Solutions, Leroy Reid, said the company is steadily re-energising critical facilities...

The Government has tasked the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the nation’s primary electricity provider, with exploring the underground placement of sections of the national grid. This strategic consideration is aimed at enhancing the grid’s resilience and safeguarding its integrity in the face of natural disasters. In a statement to the House of Representatives on Tuesday (November 4), Prime Minister,...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is reporting that 206,000 of its 550,000 customers have had their power restored. JPS President and Chief Executive Officer, Hugh Grant, made the disclosure during Monday’s (November 3) press briefing on Hurricane Melissa recovery activities, at Jamaica House. “We moved from 77 per cent of customers without service to... having just under 50 per...

Consumers are being assured that the country has adequate supplies of fuel and there is no need to engage in panic-buying of the commodity. Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Minister, Hon. Daryl Vaz, gave the assurance during Monday’s (November 3) press briefing to update the country on Hurricane Melissa recovery activities at Jamaica House in Kingston. He said that the Petrojam...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, residents of Hanover are sharing profound stories of heartbreaking loss, survival and resilience. The Category Five hurricane that struck Jamaica on October 28 has been described as one of the most intense cyclones in the country’s recorded history. The system unleashed widespread destruction across multiple parishes—flattening homes, uprooting trees, and cutting off electricity, water,...