Jamaica Public Service Outage: Kingston (Resolved)

Incident details

Service restored to over 50,000 JPS customers (Kingston – Thursday, October 30, 2025) JPS is reporting extensive damage to key infrastructure across its power delivery network, following the passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. Coming out of an aerial tour of the most severely hit parishes, JPS President and CEO, Hugh Grant, commented on the magnitude of work that lies ahead for the power company: “The backbone of the electricity grid has suffered tremendous damage,” he said. “Several high-voltage transmission facilities, including towers made of steel were completely destroyed by the extreme hurricane force winds that swept across sections of the island. Although it is too early to grasp the full extent of the damage, from what we have seen so far, it will take a while to rebuild and restore power to all our customers,” the JPS CEO explained. While carrying out damage assessment, JPS teams are using the opportunity to do repairs in areas with less extensive damage and get power back to customers where it is safe to do so. More than 50,000 customers across Kingston & St. Andrew, St. Thomas and St. Catherine have so far been restored. However, Grant warns that while power