The Jamaica Public Service Company

6 Business View Caribbean are running more efficiently today than they have in years. We’ve rebuilt trust with our people, with our cus- tomers, with our regulators. I had a great team here that was just begging for a new direction, so we found a new direction, together. We didn’t say ‘we want to fix it,’ we said ‘we want to lead an energy revolution in Jamaica.’” Tomblin is keenly focused on the need to partner with those major industries that are important to Jamaica, such as the hotel sector. “We have to make sure that they have reliable power. I think that’s what the in- dustry demands – and that’s what the people coming here for vacation demand. Tourism is a big part of the Jamaican economy.” JPS’s President is equally concerned with providing af- fordable power to all of Jamaica’s citizens in a way that doesn’t impede the island’s overall economic develop- ment. She explains, “Like every utility, the game has to be customer solutions. Our mission is ‘a solution for every Jamaican.’ We have from humble circumstances who have never paid for power - they’ve been stealing it their whole lives. We want them to be part of the institution of energy and society, so we have to find a way to help them - to get them on the grid; this will