The Member of Parliament for South and Central Eleuthera, the Hon. Clay Sweeting is commenting on electricity provision on that island. Outages were experienced on the Eleuthera after a failure at the Hatchet Bay power station which was compound with the loss of a generation unit in Rock Sound.
Sweeting spoke with reporters outside of Cabinet on Tuesday saying, “currently their on a schedule as they look to assess the issues there. I should be meeting with BPL today to get further clarification on what’s going on whether its generation, when the repairs will happen. So we’re working along with them. I also spoke with the Minister of Works and the PS at the Ministry of Works who is assessing the situation so as soon as I can get some further information, hopefully today, on the status. I understand not just businesses but you have old persons, you have infants, so it affects everyone when power generation is an issue.”
