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The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) has indicated that 28,000 customers in Manchester, representing 70 per cent of households, now have access to their regular electricity supplies. JPSCo Parish Manager for Manchester, Thelma Vassel told JIS News that the company was working to return power to areas still without the utility. Areas being worked on are Williamsfield Gardens, Bellefield and...

The Government is currently formulating a new national energy policy, which should be completed within the next six months. The policy which will extend to 2015 is expected to focus on alternative sources of energy among other things. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson who made the disclosure in his contribution to 2004/05 Budget Debate at Gordon House on Tuesday, April 27,...

Jamaica and Iran are to explore avenues for corporation in the energy and bauxite alumina sectors, following discussions on Friday (Feb. 27) between Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and President Khatami of Iran, ahead of the Twelfth Summit of the Group of Fifteen in Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. Patterson noted that while the local bauxite sector was operating at full capacity, Jamaica...

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said it was fitting that the recently concluded Summit of the G of 15 developing countries in Caracas, Venezuela focussed on the importance of energy to a country's development as there was no doubt that energy is the engine of economic growth, given its cost and availability to developing countries and the impact it has had...