Dear Editor,

Fond farewell to “Ms JPS”, aka Kelly Tomblin, the person who “humanised” the face and policies of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), this lady will be greatly missed.Since her tenure matured we have hardly seen some of the old JPS horror stories – people’s electricity being cut-off on a Friday evening, or on the eve of a public holiday/Christmas.We have seen, rather, an affordable penalty/fine and a gentle warning tap on the consumers’ shoulder.As to the other old “JPS disaster”, there has also been a vast improvement in the recovery of the grid, post natural disasters, hand-in-hand with a strengthened public relations/consumer interface.Ms Tomblin has been what the company most needed, .a good “mother” (a welcome change to some of the tyrant “fathers” we have had to suffer through).Also there has been a growth in renewable energy (private and business) and the “finalisation” of a gas-fired power plant (on which the previous incompetent energy minister twice dropped the ball).Jamaica needs to bring our energy production costs down, making for a future where our manufactured goods are more competitive with, say, our oil-rich, Jamaicaphobe Caricom partner to our distant south-east.Well, done, Ms Tomblin, and as my grandfather used to say, “The best man for the job? A woman, of course!”Tony Goffe