KINGSTON, Jamaica – As at 2:00 pm Saturday, roughly 65,000 customers representing 12 per cent of the National Water Commission’s (NWC) total customer base remain without service following an islandwide blackout on Friday night that lasted into Saturday morning.

Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change Matthew Samuda, in sharing the information during a joint press conference with, Minister of Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Daryl Vaz at the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company headquarters, explained why some residents were still without water.

“The timing associated with charging an electricity line is a much shorter period than the timeline associated with backfilling water lines that ran dry because of the power outages that affected our power systems,” he said.