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Over 1000 JPS customers still without electricity
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | 1:13 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Between1000 and 1500 customers of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) are still without electricity three weeks after losing power due to Hurricane Sandy.
Restoration efforts continue in the hard-hit parishes of St Mary, St Thomas and Portland with some “mopping up” work being done in St Andrew, the electricity distributor said.
Hurricane Sandy hit Jamaica as a Category 1 system on October 24.
One death has been linked to the storm here.
 
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