Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says he expects to update the country on Saturday following what he described as an “unacceptable” all-island power outage that left Jamaica in darkness for nearly two hours on Friday night.

Reports of widespread outages began emerging from several parishes shortly after 8:00 p.m., before Vaz posted “Island-wide blackout” on X, formerly Twitter, at 9:27 p.m.

In a later update at 10:37 p.m., Vaz said Jamaica Public Service (JPS) President Hugh Grant had reported that “all power stations [are] being restarted” and that “some customers have started being restored.”