'Sick and tired' - Vaz says prelim findings of June 5 blackout point to ‘same old failures’
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June 9, 2026
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Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says preliminary findings into the June 5 all-island power outage are "completely untenable and unacceptable", arguing that they point to the "same old findings" identified previous in past system failures.
In a post on X on Tuesday afternoon, Vaz said the ministry's summary findings from a preliminary report point to “a failure or delayed operation of the primary protection scheme” at the Hunts Bay and Rockfort lines.
Those are the same power stations and critical infrastructure corridor that featured in Saturday’s press conference at which Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) CEO Hugh Grant acknowledged the “cascading” collapse of the national grid.
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