IN the wake of last week’s islandwide blackout, Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says future electricity licences will include mandatory compensation provisions, insisting that “sorry” is not enough for customers and businesses that suffered losses.

Speaking in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Vaz said the June 5 outage had exposed significant gaps in Jamaica’s electricity regulatory framework, noting that there is currently no legal provision requiring compensation for consumers affected by major power failures.

The minister said the issue had become even more pressing given the scale of disruption caused by the outage, which left households, businesses, and public institutions across the island without electricity.