Councillors in the St. Mary Municipal Corporation
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The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is being taken to task over its restoration figures, as councillors within the St. Mary Municipal Corporation insist that the company's reported 85 per cent restoration may not be accurate.
In the immediate aftermath, 23 per cent of JPS customers island-wide maintained power supply.
During a meeting of the St. Mary Municipal Corporation, with JPS representatives present, the councillors pointed to several major areas across the parish that remain without power, three weeks after Hurricane Melissa, as reason for doubting the reported restoration rate.
They named areas such as Gayle, Dressikie, Bonny Gate, Hunt's Town, and Top Pen as being among the several communities still without power.
The councillors also disputed the light and power company's deployment of work teams in affected areas across the parish.
"The people them drive through, but them no stop.... Nobody not working. Nobody at all," they complained.
To date, JPS has reported 67 per cent restoration of service to customers across the island.
It has committed to a January timeline for restoration of services to some sections of St. Mary.
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