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Utility regulator orders report on blackout as power restored nationwide; water still out for some

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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jun 6, CMC – Electricity has been restored to all customers affected by Friday night’s islandwide blackout, but tens of thousands of National Water Commission (NWC) customers remained without water on Saturday as authorities investigated the cause of the outage and worked to restore service in several parishes.

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