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1 300 BL&P customers still in the dark - Barbados Today
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St Andrew, other northern parishes go without power, BLP says full restoration in a week
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Across the island, evidence of the passing of Hurricane Elsa yet remains.
In particular, uprooted utility poles, many held up only by their cables, dot the landscape, fuelling the fires of those who believe Barbados Light & Power is dragging its feet.
One of the worse areas was Hilswick, St Joseph, where a utility pole still lay across the road. Other St Joseph areas such as Bloomsbury also featured severely damaged poles.
These sights were not relegated only to rural areas as in places such as Cheapside and Mason Hall Street in The City, some poles were still hanging dangerously over buildings, motorists and pedestrians.
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Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P) is rubbishing claims that it was caught napping and unprepared for the passing of Hurricane Elsa last Friday.
Up to yesterday, the Canadian-owned utility company reported it had restored power to more than 85 per cent of the customers who lost electricity in the early morning hours of Friday, when Elsa, a Category 1 hurricane, affected the island, destroying 145 houses with more than 2 300 reports of damage.
The company has been heavily criticised about the perceived slow process of power being returned in the days that followed, with about 20 000 customers still without electricity yesterday.
“We are very, very prepared for hurricanes,” managing director Roger Blackman told a press conference held yesterday at the National Emergency Operations Centre, located at the headquarters of the Department of Emergency Management, Warrens, St Michael. (BA)
BL&P defends performance - Barbados Today
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