{"id":16808,"date":"2020-08-06T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2020-08-06T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:16:44","slug":"jps-makes-strides-in-streetlight-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/jps-makes-strides-in-streetlight-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"JPS Makes Strides in Streetlight Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediaheader.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediaheader.png 637w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediaheader-600x64.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediaheader-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><b>\u00a0August 5, 2020<\/b><\/p>\n<p>JPS has made significant strides in its streetlight repair programme following intense weeks of repair work.\u00a0\u00a0 At the end of July, the Company had repaired over 1,700 lamps islandwide.\u00a0 JPS is projecting a finish date for its repairs by August 31, when over 4,700 streetlights will have been repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Up to last week, teams were working in Red Hills, Chancery Hall, Hagley Park, Allman Town, Barbican and Norbrook\u00a0 among other areas in St. Andrew.\u00a0 While in St. Catherine, teams were busy in Portmore and Spanish Town; and in the west, crews conducted repairs in\u00a0Rosehall, Mt. Salem and other communities.<\/p>\n<p>The work schedule for the rest of this week will see repairs being carried out in several communities, including the following rural and urban areas:<\/p>\n<p><b>Hanover<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Lucea, Pells River, Bachelor\u2019s Hall, Cousin\u2019s Cove<\/p>\n<p><b>St. Ann<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Pattersonville, Clarksonville, Mt. Zion, Mt. Olivet<\/p>\n<p><b>St. Thomas<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Bath and Hayfield<\/p>\n<p><b>St. James<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Mount Salem<\/p>\n<p><b>KSA<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Allman Town, Vineyard Town, Franklyn town, Windward Road area<\/p>\n<p><b>St. Catherine<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Sligoville, Linstead and Above Rocks.<\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, JPS continues to appeal to residents to protect the streetlights in their communities from theft and vandalism, so that the repaired lights may operate for the common good. There are over 105,000 streetlights across the island.<\/p>\n<p>JPS remains committed to ongoing improvement in the quality of customer service and operational efficiency, and thanks its customers for their patience and understanding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16810 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jamaica-Street-Lights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jamaica-Street-Lights.jpg 385w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jamaica-Street-Lights-600x631.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jamaica-Street-Lights-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9680 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediafooter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediafooter.png 791w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediafooter-600x70.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediafooter-300x35.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPSmediafooter-768x89.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0August 5, 2020 JPS has made significant strides in its streetlight repair programme following intense weeks of repair work.\u00a0\u00a0 At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Aug","day_date":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}