72 Specialized Vehicles Arrive in Montego Bay over the Weekend, for Electricity Restoration Efforts 

– to be used by Holland Power Services crews

Kingston, December 29, 2025)   Yesterday (Sunday December 28), 72 specialized vehicles, comprised of bucket trucks, diggers, pole trailers and pick-ups were offloaded at Freeport Montego Bay, St. James, as part of equipment to be used by the recently arrived Holland Power Services crews.  The newly deployed assets will be assigned primarily to Westmoreland and other areas of western Jamaica, where damage to the electricity network was most severe and where rebuilding and restoration activities remain most intense due to the acute damage inflicted by Category 5, Hurricane Melissa.

This set of vehicles brings to roughly 160, the number of specialized vehicles brought into the island since the unprecedented disaster hit.

Detommie Fuller, Manager for Business Continuity Resiliency and Contract Management, who was on the ground when the specialized vehicles came off the port, noted that the additional fleets would help ensure that the newly arrived linemen would be fully resourced as they took on the task, shoulder to shoulder, with Jamaican, Caribbean and other international crews  to restore power to the remaining 12% of JPS customers.

Holland Power Services, is one of two contracting firms, which JPS engaged, as part of its Business Continuity Strategy, back in February 2025, in a proactive move to prepare for the hurricane season.  The other contracting firm secured by JPS, was Tempest, and as part of the proactive plan, JPS flew in several team members, days before Melissa made landfall, so that repairs could commence immediately after the all clear was given by the Government.  A third firm, Greystone, was added to the line-up of firms, after the enormous scale of the damage became apparent.  Both Greystone and Holland have now been added to the fleets on the ground, due to the support of the Government of Jamaica, who has aided in bringing in additional crews required to expedite the recovery efforts.