JPS focusing on restoring power to most Jamaicans by Saturday night

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says the number of customers still without power has been reduced to 60,000.

It says the vast majority of its customers will have electricity restored to them by Saturday night, but a number of smaller areas will remain out of service.

In a media release on Friday afternoon, the JPS said roughly 632,000 of its 692,000 customers now have electricity, as it leans into some of the last stages of restoration for most of the island.

JPS' senior vice president of energy delivery, Blaine Jarrett, say the company will continue to give attention to these pockets until they are fully restored. He says the company is also redeploying resources where possible, to aggressively push ahead to these areas.  

However, the parish of St Elizabeth remains on a different timeline, with full restoration expected in roughly a month.

In the meantime, the JPS is also reporting that all hospitals and major health care facilities now have power.

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