As the world grapples with the challenge of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply concerned at the current prospect of inequitable access to vaccines to address the pandemic, especially for frontline workers and vulnerable populations. The reality is that small states will find it difficult to compete in the market place […]
Despite significant efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, including travel bans, closure of businesses and working from home, a growing number of geographies, people and organizations have been affected by this human disaster. With the total number of people infected growing daily, COVID-19 has become a public health emergency of international concern and containment […]
The warehouse and stores at utilities are at the center of all materials and inventory-related activities, especially during the storm season, when the focus is “keeping the lights on.” All utilities plan for this eventuality and are operationally geared to focus their efforts on keeping the line crews and repairs personnel supplied with construction and […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH JED BAILEY, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ENERGY NARRATIVE Nate Graham (Program Associate, Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries): For more than six months, Covid-19 and the measures implemented to slow its spread have had a devastating effect on the global economy, with activity ceasing almost entirely in some sectors. The virtual disappearance of […]
Protecting People, Communities and Business Safety has always been a core value for the utilities industry. Now in the face of a global pandemic, ensuring that critical lifeline services are not interrupted has created an unprecedented challenge. The near-term decisions utility leaders make today to protect their employees, communities and business from COVID-19, will undoubtedly […]
April 27, 2020 Today (April 27), JPS major shareholder, East West Power Korea (EWP) donated two diagnostic machines and 7,500 testing kits for COVID-19, through the JPS Foundation, to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). The gift will improve the UHWI’s testing capacity from 200 per day to 986 per day – a […]
On Friday (April 24), JPS handed over several care packages for the disabled, to assist them during the COVID-19 crisis. The gift was presented to the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities – an agency of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, at the ministry’s Marcus Garvey Drive warehouse in Kingston. Speaking at the handover, […]
April 23, 2020 Applications for support under JPS’ COVID-19 Relief Programme for elderly and disabled customers, will close at 12 midnight tomorrow, Friday April 24. The Company’s J$10M COVID-19 Relief Programme, which was announced at the end of February during JPS’ Digital Town Hall meeting, offered bill-payment relief as well as care packages to our customers in […]
April 21, 2020 JPS is reporting that the Company has seen an overall decrease in the consumption of electricity by approximately 2.5% for the month of March. However, the residential customer category has increased its consumption of electricity since the start of the COVID19 outbreak by about 3% overall, very likely due to the fact […]
JPS Helps provide Transportation for Health Workers – collaboration with Health Ministry and JUTA Energy Company JPS, in partnership with JUTA Tours, has stepped in to assist with the transportation of health workers to and from 4 major hospitals in the South East Regional Health area, for the next 6 weeks. JPS’ (early) donation of […]