It is quite unacceptable that the electricity company in these modern times continues to be hopelessly inept. It is now a regular occurrence that consumers in the Saint James and environ areas are left without power for a staggering seven hours and more at times.
Case in point, on Good Friday, in the wee early hour of 1.15 am, all lights went out and left this vast area in complete darkness. As I type, power has just returned, making it an unbelievable ten hours this time.
This downright appalling situation has occurred before as we well remembered nearly three months aback where it was off for seven disgraceful hours, and apart from that, electricity will cut off intermittently at periods of 30 minutes to an hour.
It is obvious that something is fundamentally wrong with the whole system. Yet they took out a full page ad to self praise themselves while the company is in complete disarray. And of course it's too much to ask for good public relations by being visited by representatives of the company to find out if any home electronics or appliances had been damaged especially after being without power for unheard periods of times of seven to ten hours.
Must we continue to always be made to have to put up with incompetent persons in state companies where service is disgraceful and no one will be held accountable for these massive unacceptable incidents.
Racquel Putt,
St James