Up to yesterday, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) said electricity had been restored to 60 per cent of the island.

In a release to the media, JPS's corporate public relations manager, Winsome Callum, said all parishes, except St. Elizabeth had received some level of power supply.

St. Elizabeth is one of three southern parishes where the utility company's transmission system sustained severe damage. The other two are Clarendon and Manchester. Power will be restored to these parishes on September 9, JPS says.

Restoration work will continue in the parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew, St. Catherine, St. James, Westmoreland, Hanover, Trelawny and St. Ann, while by Friday, most customers in the parishes of St. Thomas, Portland and St. Mary will begin receiving power.