Jamaica Public Service Outage: Kingston (Resolved)

Incident details

(Kingston – October 27, 2025) JPS has advised that its teams will continue to restore power in communities across the island being affected by adverse weather, as long as it is safe for crews to work. There has been an increased incidence of outages across the island as a result of deteriorating weather conditions influenced by the pending arrival of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. President and CEO at the power company, Hugh Grant, announced that his teams continue to respond to reports and carry out repairs. “Our teams are working to restore supply to as many of the affected customers as possible. JPS employees and local contractors are being supported by the overseas line workers who have already been deployed to several parishes. We understand the inconvenience of losing power, but while we make every effort to keep the lights on, we are seeing an increasing number of outages caused by persons cutting trees inappropriately and causing them to fall on power lines,” he explained. He continued: “As the hurricane approaches, our priority is to keep the lights on for as long as it is safe to do so. But we need members of the public to do their part, and stay away from power lines. Jus