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A team of 117 elec­tri­cal lines­men from Cana­da ar­rived in Ja­maica on Wednes­day, to as­sist the light and pow­er com­pa­ny—the Ja­maica Pub­lic Ser­vice (JPS)—to re­store elec­tric­i­ty in sec­tions of the is­land that were bat­tered by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

It is the third ar­rival of over­seas util­i­ty work­ers with­in two days, push­ing the to­tal num­ber of for­eign lines­men de­ployed so far to ap­prox­i­mate­ly 228, sur­pass­ing the ini­tial pro­jec­tion of 200 un­der a planned 300-per­son mo­bil­i­sa­tion.

The Cana­di­an crew will be de­ployed pri­mar­i­ly across west­ern Ja­maica to the parish­es of St Eliz­a­beth, West­more­land and St James, where JPS says the dam­age has been so se­vere that many ar­eas now re­quire re­design and re­build­ing of elec­tric­i­ty net­works, rather than sim­ple restora­tion.