KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jul 24, CMC – Less than 24 hours after Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Minister, Daryl Vaz, said he made no apology for saying he has “very little confidence” in the capacity of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to effect full restoration in the timelines needed, Vaz has again criticised the company for providing “flawed” information to the authorities.
He said he had received complaints from more than 20 parliamentarians that the majority of their constituencies are still without electricity three weeks after the passage of Hurricane Beryl.
“This leads me to the point of where the information that is coming out of JPS and what is happening on the ground is at odds and we have got to find a way to make sure that we are all on the same page,” he told reporters.
“We are now going into week four as of tomorrow as today is exactly three weeks since Beryl struck and the longer we go it is the harder it gets for those without electricity,” he said, adding that there were several pumps belonging to the National Water Commission (NWC) “that are out after three weeks and several National Irrigation Commission pumps that supply water to farmers across the length and breadth of Jamaica”.
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