JPS Ready for Active Hurricane Season

Posted by Abka Fitz-Henley | 2 Aug, 2016

The President and CEO of the light and power company, Jamaica Public Service, Kelly Tomblin, says it’s prepared for the possibility of an active hurricane season.

Miss Tomblin says JPS activated its emergency response mechanism yesterday and today as the strong tropical wave approached the island.

The system passed a few hundred miles off Jamaica’s south coast today and has now been upgraded to a tropical storm, Earl.

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Miss Tomblin says the adverse conditions which are still affecting some sections of the island may result in isolated outages.

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Abka Fitz-Henley

Abka Fitz-Henley is a multiple award-winning journalist who is currently Co-Host of the current affairs programme Nationwide: This Morning which airs on week days on Nationwide News Network (NNN) between 6:00am and 8:25am. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbkaFitzHenley Fitz-Henley is also currently the National Correspondent at NNN and supervises the Online team. Fitz-Henley has been employed to NNN for over 10 years, since age 21. Over the years, he has served as Senior Reporter, Parliamentary Correspondent and News and Production Editor at Nationwide. His primary areas of focus are Court, Crime and Parliamentary proceedings. Fitz-Henley was recently recognized in the regional celebrity magazine publication Panache as “The Breaking News Boss”. At 21 years of age, following his 1st year in media, Fitz-Henley was recognized with the Young Journalist of the year award from The Press Association of Jamaica and went on to cop one of the country’s highest recognized journalism prizes, the Journalist of the Year Award. He’s also been awarded the prestigious Corporate Jamaica Broilers Fairplay 1st place Award for investigative journalism and is the recipient of the Caribbean Blog Award for coverage of the infamous Kartel murder trial. Fitz-Henley is also the recipient of the PM Youth Award for Excellence. Over the years, he has appeared as a guest on the BBC World Service and BBC London.

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