The Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, launched its Electricity Regularization Pilot Project in the McGregor Gardens or McGregor Gully community in East Kingston on Tuesday.
The project seeks to regularize 2-thousand households in several communities in the Corporate Area.
Corporate Communications Manager at the JPS, Audrey Williams says the project will begin with the wiring of 1-hundred houses, free of charge.
The initiative emerged from the Electricity Theft Committee, which was established by the government on the heels of JPS’ controversial service disruption exercise in several communities.
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund, JSIF, will provide skills training opportunities to further empower residents.
Mrs. Williams says the JPS is confident the project will help to deter electricity theft.
Audrey Williams, Corporate Communications Manager at JPS.
The JPS says the registration process for the free house wiring will start on July 24, at a temporary office at the McGregor Gardens Community Centre, on Langston Terrace.
