Dear Editor,

“Ms JPS”, aka Ms Kelly Tomblin, the person who “humanised” the face and policies of JPS, will be greatly missed.Since her tenure matured, we have hardly seen some of the old JPS horror stories — people being cut-off on a Friday evening, or on the eve of a public holiday/Christmas. Rather, what we have seen is an affordable penalty/fine, a gentle warning tap on the consumer’s shoulder.As to the other old ‘JPS disaster’, there has been vast improvement on 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 of renewables (private and business) and the final “finalisation” of the gas-fired plant on which the previous, incompetent energy minister twice dropped the ball.Jamaica needs to bring our energy 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!”Gramps was way ahead of his time. 

Tony Goffe

tony@peeniwalli.com