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ENERGY Minister Daryl Vaz has described last Friday’s islandwide power outage as “an embarrassment” while the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has blamed lightning damage to critical infrastructure for triggering a cascading grid failure that left the country without electricity and, in some instances, water.
Regulators have given the power company 48 hours to submit a preliminary report and 30 days to provide a full report into the shutdown.
Minister of Water Matthew Samuda, in noting that the supply of water is reliant on electricity, said the team will continue to restore connections over the next 24 to 48 hours to approximately 65,000 customers who were still without water up to 2:00 pm Saturday.
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