KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) says it has redeployed several employee and contractor teams from other areas to work in the badly hit eastern parishes.KINGSTON & ST ANDREWPORTLANDST THOMASST ANNST CATHERINEST MARY

“Most of our restoration effort is now concentrated in Portland, St Mary and St Thomas, where we have close to 25,000 customers still without electricity,” Omar Sweeney, JPS regional director-east said in a release this afternoon. 

“We have made significant headway in the last two days, and have restored power to more than half of our customers in these parishes. However, our teams continue to face enormous challenges of difficult terrain and lack of access to some communities and, as a result, our progress is severely hampered. Restoration work in these parishes is therefore likely to continue into next week,” Sweeney added.

In addition to the restoration work in the eastern parishes, JPS says it is continuing its restoration efforts in Kingston & St Andrew, as well as sections of St Catherine and St Ann. 

The areas in which JPS teams are working today include:

Mount Atlas, Mount Zion, sections of Rock Hall, Ivor Dr, Mulberry Road, Upper Scott Level Road, Peters Rock, Hermitage Dam, Boone Hall, Dustry Rd, Silver Hill, Catherine’s Peak, Greenridge, Constitution Hill, Lower Halls Delight, Dallas Castle Rd, Bito, sections of Red Hills, Smokey Vale, Castle James, Lawrence Tavern, King Weston

Hart Hill, Windsor Castle, Rio Grande Valley, San San Pump Line, Hopefield, Mount Pleasant, Shirley Castle, Swift River, New Eden, Moore Town, Mount Herman, Bangor Ridge, Rose Hill, Cascade, Coolshade,Balcarris, Silver Hill, sections of Buff Bay, Sections of Barracks, Reach, Kensington Top, Rio Grande Valley, Black Hill to Dover, Port Antonio to Black Hill, Fellowship to Moore Town, Hope Bay Valley, Cooling Spring, Shrewsberry, Mount Herman to Swift River, Bybrook, Skibo, St. Margarets Bay to Coopers Hill, Buff Bay Green Hill, Bangor Ridge, San San, Manchioneal to Quaw Hill. Castle, Fairy Hill, Harbour Street, Folly Road, Plum Valley, Charles Town, Norwich, St. Margarets Bay, Buff Bay to Windsor Castle

Port Morant  – Quaw Hill, Cedar Valley, Easington  – Windsor Forest,  Bath, Nutts River,  Aelos Valley,

Claremont, Clayground to Bamboo, Retreat – Brown’s Town, Edward Avenue, Cranbrook, sections of Edge Hill Road, sections of Faith’s Pen, sections of Lime Hall to Clampsden, Lincoln, Sections of Ocho Rios, section of Lime Bottom Lane, Cole Road, Rocky Hill, Dunns Hill, section of Cutlass Bay, sections of Content Gardens, Mansfield, section of Shaw Park

Reynolds/Old Works, Sections of Bog Walk, Dunkel to Pear Tree Grove, Hamwalk,  Lewisburgh, Top Hill, John Crow Spring

America Alley, Annotto Bay to Dover, Annotto Bay, Ballards Valley, Basin Hill, Blue Habour, Blue Hole, Boyne Park, Breast Lane, Broadgate, Caribbean Park, Coloraine, Corn Hill, Cotton Tree Lane Rd, Crawl Road, Crescent, Cromwell Land to Bellfield, Days Mt, Dover, Endsfield, Epsom, Fontebelle, Frazerwood, Friendship Gap, Friendship, Gaff Ave, Geddes Mt, George Town, Gibraltor H/S, Gibraltor Heights, Green Castle, Greenwood, Hamilton Mt, Hampstead, Highgate to Cocoa Fermentary, Iteboreal, Jacks River to Kidland, Jackson, Junction Main, Lebanon, Llangley, Mason Hall, Mt. Moreno, Nutsfield, Pat Chung H/S, Pimento Hill, Ranch, Richmond Prison to Providence, Richmond, Roadside, Sanside to Preston Hill, Section of Geddes town, Spring Head to Mason Hall, Three Mile Alley, Upper White River to Exchange.