Power off again in many areas on Tortola
- BVIEC says there has been a 'major malfunction' on one of its interconnection switches @ Pockwood Pond
According to the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC), there has been 'a major malfunction' on one of its interconnection switches at Pockwood Pond. Photo: BVIEC/File
POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- Many areas on Tortola are currently without power today, July 17, 2023.
According to the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC), this is due to “a major malfunction” on one of BVIEC’s interconnection switches at Pockwood Pond.
“At approximately 11:00 am we lost a significant amount of generation. As a result, a number of areas were affected. More information will be provided shortly,” BVIEC stated.
“Here, can’t even iron a shirt to run town, these people are ridiculous,” one resident of Sea Cows Bay told our newsroom.
It was on June 4, 2023, that various areas of the territory were without power for hours after the seawater system which supplies cooling water to 55% of the diesel generators at the Henry Wilfred ‘Freddie’ Smith Power Station at Pockwood Pond became compromised by Sargassum seaweed.
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31 Responses to “Power off again in many areas on Tortola”
Facts, if it was run and managed by an expat they would have toss the expat under the moving train wheels. Let them deal with there own kind who always turns out to be @#$$ ups.
Fraser had a golden opportunity to form a government but due to greed……I submit to you the man from district #3 do not have enough integrity…..look at pros & cons are you saying have someone cross the floor
Lorna and Frazer ^&-up this country...Ronnie was to be tbe Premier...VIP has no solutions..
2. Dump site pockwood pond
3. Terrible road.
4. Not paying workers
Above are simply a few things which needs fixing for many many many years
Government after government and they all does nothing because the focus is tourism
have we not made enough money from our tourism products to clean up the place
run chat dat