PS JPS to hire thousands for power plant project

[Assasin]

PS to hire thousands for power plant project






JPS headquarters on Knutsford Boulevard in St. Andrew.

More than 2,000 persons will be given jobs to construct the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) new power plant in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine.
In what is expected to be the single largest investment in Jamaica, US$602 million or JA$52 billion will be spent on building the plant which will provide 360 mega watts of new generating capacity.
The plant will burn natural gas, with diesel as backup fuel.
The venture is the result of a partnership between majority shareholders of JPS, Marubeni and Korea East West Power (EWP), with JPS as a minority partner.
The entities will form a new corporation, which will be responsible for the implementation of the construction project.
The 360 mega watts of new capacity will be commissioned into service in 2014.
Hisatsugu Hirai, Chairman of Marubeni Caribbean, says the plant will help to reduce electricity rates by about 30% due to the cheaper cost of natural gas and the greater efficiency of the new generating units.

[Don1]

Gwaan Bartlett!! ....err..sarry

Gwaan Robertson!!... hmmm..wrong again..

Wha di new bredda name who dem did kick out an hire back?? LOL

[Assasin]

Gov’t tries to woo top bunker fuel supplier








Energy Minister Clive Mullings.

The Government is trying to woo one of the world's top suppliers of bunker fuel to Jamaica's shores.
Energy Minister Clive Mullings recently met with officials of Aegean Marine of Greece to finalise plans for significant investments on the North Coast.
In addition to being a supplier of bunker fuel, the company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, also has substantial storage and energy logistics related operations.
Among the projects envisaged is a joint venture between the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam and Aegean for the use of existing tanks at the Reynold's Pier in Ocho Rios, St. Ann.
The tanks will provide bunker fuel to cruise ships which call at the ports of Ocho Rios, Falmouth and Montego Bay.
Top executives of Aegean Marine are due in the island shortly.

[TDowl]

" reduce electricity rates by about 30%" That will be the day..

[Me]

You think Mr. Hirai inna the joke business. If anything is the yard man them going to let him down. The man deh reach every meeting 15 minute before hand and have things ready, while every minister, shadow minister and technical adviser a stroll in after start time.

[TDowl]

Read to the back end nuh, the ministers dem will find a excuse fi tack de 30% and it wont be for girlfriends, as that is second to curroption, gas tax eh?