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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
