Vaz contacts JPS over fresh islandwide power disruptions

Energy Minister Daryl Vaz said he reached out to the Jamaica Public Service after receiving complaints about electricity cuts in communities across Jamaica on Monday night.

In a post on X that night, Vaz said several outage reports had come to him and that he passed the information to JPS for immediate attention.

The fresh disruptions came after Friday night’s islandwide blackout, when JPS customers were left without electricity for several hours. Supply was back across the system by Saturday, and JPS said it was still trying to determine what caused the failure.

JPS President and Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant said heavy lightning activity had been detected in the Corporate Area around the period of the outage, especially near a number of major generating plants, transmission assets and substations.

The utility was due to submit a report yesterday to the Office of Utilities Regulation on Friday’s nationwide power failure.